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Spacetop, a radical laptop with no screen

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Re: Spacetop, a radical laptop with no screen

#71

I use the nReal for this currently, it's great. The glasses are comfy, and I can have blockers on the front or see through to other things. You can be full wearable right now for less than you think.

How long are your sessions on average? Is this your daily driver or just for certain occasions (travel, etc)?

Re: Spacetop, a radical laptop with no screen

#73

I don’t really understand why my iPhone can’t just be a desktop. It should just hook up to a dock and turn into a desktop pc. It’s got the power to do everything I do I just need a monitor and keyboard hookup

I've purchased a lapdock for my Galaxy Fold precisely for this reason. My MBP is almost 10 years old, and when I looked at buying a new one, I saw that it cost $400 to bump up the RAM from base model 8GB to 16GB.

No thanks! My phone has 12GB; I'm going to be using that for general computing and RDP into my Macbook when I need to.

Re: Spacetop, a radical laptop with no screen

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This is exactly the kind of concept I personally expect from Apple if the AR rumors materialize at the upcoming WWDC... maybe with a less clunky design. Now that I think about it, the existing Mission Control/Full screen App interface could make total sense for this UI. You could quite easily translate theses concepts to an AR deck bridging the gap between all existing Apps and this new interface.

It's widely speculated that the Apple AR product will run iPad apps, and that stage manager was shipped last year as a multitasking environment well suited to AR.

Re: Spacetop, a radical laptop with no screen

#76

Some people are massively thinking this is gonna be the next step. It's an interesting take.

I love the compact form of my laptop, hate to be constantly looking down. I have a super bulky screen just to have a few windows side by side. If (and that's a big if) this would be able to achieve 60hz 4k equivalent, its hands down the next step.

Re: Spacetop, a radical laptop with no screen

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post #74

Is anyone aware of any studies done on the long term effects of beaming photons to your retina from that close distance?

Distance doesn't matter for a fatigue perspective. Light intensity and time are big factors, though.

Focusing on a short distance for a long period of time has been associated with myopia (though I'm not sure if they've established a causal link).

I didn't really answer your question. Sorry. No I'm not aware.

Re: Spacetop, a radical laptop with no screen

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post #74

Is anyone aware of any studies done on the long term effects of beaming photons to your retina from that close distance?

Not aware. But I was once examined by an eye doctor after having been exposed to a quite intensive amount of light. He said that during eye surgery they used very powerful light. So I think the bar is quite high, in comparison to AR glasses

Re: Spacetop, a radical laptop with no screen

#80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because Apple wants you to buy a Mac as well as an iPhone, as well as an iPad. On Android things are a bit better with Samsung's DEX, among others.

Android should be able to do the same basically becoming a chrome book when hooked up to a dock. Slap it into a 11” screen and you get tablet.

This is already the case on most (not all) Android phones with USB-C video out. However, Google has not provided a desktop interface, so OEMs have had to create their own. Currently, Samsung, Motorola, Huawei and LG (RIP) offer desktop UIs when the phone is hooked up to a monitor.
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