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Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
How much would you pay? I expect the lower end to be around $20,000 from hardware alone, plus at least gigabit down/up connectivity.
I suspect eventually this will percolate down, somewhat like Facebook's Portal TV (£149) but possibly also integrated with something like a Google Assistant/Siri type smart device to power the software and do other smart-home type things in your home. Many ordinary folk already have 4k TVs at home and 8k will probably become commonplace in the future. The real bottleneck will be good low-latency broadband both up and…
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#163google reinvents the uncanny valley ?
I thought it was some stereographic encoding on layered displays but the second they mentioned 3d mapped videos I started to see pixar like characters. Very odd.
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#164The ads will be amazing
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#165The porn industry is about to be reinvented
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#166Thought: This could bring back phone booths. If this tech turns out to be too expensive (for normal people) we could still use it on a pay-per-use basis, like with a "video conferencing booth". You'd schedule your call and reserve a local booth for both participants through an app. And most companies should be able to afford having one of these in the office.
I agree with you, I'm also imagining these in public libraries, retirement homes, small village community centres.
I just hope we don't end up with a bunch of incompatible, proprietary appliances that can't talk to each other.
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#167Thought: This could bring back phone booths. If this tech turns out to be too expensive (for normal people) we could still use it on a pay-per-use basis, like with a "video conferencing booth". You'd schedule your call and reserve a local booth for both participants through an app. And most companies should be able to afford having one of these in the office.
It would have to be really futuristic to convince people to coordinate timings, reserve a slot, pay and drive to some location for a video call. FaceTime/WhatsApp are still good enough for most.
The office use case is probably more realistic, but some other related products (Surface Hub, Jamboard) haven't become as ubiquitous as originally imagined.
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#168When can I try this on my phone? Imagine gaming on this. I assume the porn industry will be early adopters (sorry, it's probably true).
Inferior to VR for gaming or pron.
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#169While cool for the top 5% wealthiest people, I'd be more interested in tech for the other 95% that will actually be affordable.
New tech typically debuts at a high price point only wealthy people can afford, then as it get commoditized it becomes more affordable. Wealthy early adopters willing to pay high prices for novelty or business applications are what enable the fast pace of innovation that we have become accustomed to.
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#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
IBM in the 90's strongly agrees with you - this software stuff is never going to be profitable and everything people pay for will always end up going through us! More seriously, I disagree about software being less important because there have been very real innovations for tooling accomplished in software alone. Email is a pretty classic example - but a more modern one might be Google Cardboard which can turn your s…
I think you're conflating technology with profitable or important. That is, you see me saying that software isn't technology and think I'm saying that software isn't profitable or important. That's not at all what I'm saying though. I likened software to writing. Writing can be important and it can be profitable, it's just not technology. Maybe we could agree on email as a technology. Maybe. I think it's a stretch. I…
I think that's fair yea - it might just be a matter of semantics. If you think software is included in technology then I stand by my point but, if your view of technology excludes software then you're quite correct.