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Honestly, I am a bit disappointed by the remote. I read a blog post recently, that got me TOTALLY excited about the prospect of an AppleTV - https://syrah.co/j
by marcamillion 11y ago
Honestly, I am a bit disappointed by the remote.
I read a blog post recently, that got me TOTALLY excited about the prospect of an AppleTV - https://syrah.co/joshdickson40/55ee7b652450db710180a79b https://syrah.co/joshdickson40/55ee7b652450db710180a79b
The TL;DR is that if Apple made your iOS device the controller for the game on the TV, that changes everything.
Imagine that...game developers can design and program controllers for their games. That may be a bit confusing for some, and there may be some standardization that is needed....but just the idea blew my mind.
Imagine a game where I can play with my 3 kids. But, the controls for my 2-year old (on my iPad) are different than the controls for my 5-year old (on my iPod) which are different than the controls for my 7-year old (another iPad) and myself (an iPhone).
But we all experience the game fully, relatively easily, in our own way.
Oh man....that got me so excited....alas...that was not meant to be.
One can only hope that it comes in the future...because that would most definitely unlock a whole new generation of casual gamers that no console could dream of unlocking.
- mercer 11y agoIsn't this already possible using what is available currently? Perhaps nobody bothered to build anything like this.
- ThomPete 11y agoYeah sounds more like a software limitation than a hardware one.
- ThomPete 11y agoYeah thats a great idea, now go build it :)
- marcamillion 11y agoI don't have a game :(
- hrabago 11y agoThis is definitely possible now. In fact, this is possible now even with the existing Apple TV - using the TV Out feature which many games already employ.
- marcamillion 11y agoHave a link to some docs that show this?