Tuesday, October 28th 2008
Technology... and where do we go from here?
Most of us these days are pretty techno-savvy. Children as young as four and five can take a decent digital photo and upload it to our online galleries, we keep our family memories on YouTube, Granddad knows how to use Sky+, and Grandma can use the Nintendo Wii with devastating effect!
It got me thinking where do we go from here? What does the future hold for home technologies? I don’t doubt home-automation is going to grow in popularity, we’ll all have HD Televisions eventually, and the continual integration of the PC/laptop/mobile/GPS all-in-one device will reach a point where it will do everything except make a phone call!
I recently found a couple of YouTube clips with some clever chaps taking some current technologies into new-found territories. These findings are going to have some great knock-on effects for the entertainment, television and gaming industries in the future.
The first is the ability for your television to know where you are in the room. Simple in principle with massive potential. Stick with it – the guy’s a bit wordy but the result is worth the wait!
The next is the ability for a projection to know exactly what it is being projected on to. In real-time, in multiple dimensions.
This second example has great potential for both the entertainment industry and in the commercial and educational worlds – imagine a classroom with a projector above each desk, all a student would need would be a blank tablet onto which anything could be projected and interacted with! The possibilities are endless.
This is the future right here and I for one can’t wait for it to arrive!
Posted by Richard on Tuesday 28th of October 2008 at 1:13pm
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