Microsoft Xim

Post by pmelendez » Wed, Oct 08, 2014, 9:51 PM UTC

0x0 wrote: post #12

teebot wrote: post #8

Interesting feat is only one person needs the Xim app installed for all to participate

I'm guessing the app has a small built-in webserver - or perhaps relays through a 3rd party webserver - and the others join up in their browser using some kind of websocket like transport? Wonder if they direct the others to the app user's phone's internal wifi IP?

Post by dynamic99 » Wed, Oct 08, 2014, 9:55 PM UTC

crantanplum wrote: post #42

So uhhh. How do you pronounce Xim? KS-im? Zz-im? SHim?

Post by FiddlerClamp » Wed, Oct 08, 2014, 9:57 PM UTC

sliverstorm wrote: post #25

jbob2000 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So what's wrong with passing the phone around? Now I have to ask everyone to pull out their phones. "Mine is in my purse, let me go grab it" "I left mine in the car, oops" "My battery is dead" Then I have to text/email them the link. "I didn't get the link" "I have no service here" Whereas, passing a phone literally takes a millisecond.

It leaves you in control of the "show". If you have a series of pictures, for example, you pick when to move to the next photo, and can narrate as you do. You don't have to think about them flipping beyond the photos you wanted to share. They don't have to figure out how to work your phone. It's certainly easier to pass around a phone, of course, but I can see the flaws. This is a place where NFC would really be a st…

Post by reitanqild » Wed, Oct 08, 2014, 10:02 PM UTC

Post by wasyl » Wed, Oct 08, 2014, 10:05 PM UTC