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> What person would ever want this "feature"? Look up research on "media spaces" if you're interested in the practical applications of this kind of feature. Ju

> What person would ever want this "feature"? Look up research on "media spaces" if you're interested in the practical applications of this kind of feature. Just one example paper, but there are many more: https://www.billbuxton.com/DGPmediaspace.pdf https://www.billbuxton.com/DGPmediaspace.pdf Digitally creating a "portal" like this can be considered roughly analogous to connected spaces in real life. So, for example, two break rooms across different campuses of the same company, or a couple in a long-distance relationship that would ordinarily live together if not for whatever was keeping them in LDR mode stand to benefit from this sort of continuous video communication.

Animats 9y ago
So, for example, two break rooms across different campuses of the same company. I once suggested that to a company which had two locations that weren't getting along. Put up a teleconferencing link in their break room and leave it up. Unfortunately, this was before bandwidth was cheap enough this was a no-brainer.
carapace 9y ago
I love this. I'd like to have offices in a ring around the globe, maybe one in every other time-zone, each with an open floor plan and two opposite walls set up as full video walls with cameras and two-way connections so that it supports the illusion of looking into the neighboring offices through windows. There would be sound if you're standing close enough, and several scanner/printers (FAX machines lol!) connected so that you could feed a hard-copy to someone on the "other side" of the "window". It would be so cool to look "across" the distributed meta-office and SEE the day/night cycle all at once though the real windows in the offices.
FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
Eh, that seems like a much cooler idea implemented with untethered VR/AR lenses rather than screens everywhere. I don't like being on camera so it personally gives me the creeps.

Animats 9y ago

So, for example, two break rooms across different campuses of the same company. I once suggested that to a company which had two locations that weren't getting along. Put up a teleconferencing link in their break room and leave it up. Unfortunately, this was before bandwidth was cheap enough this was a no-brainer.

carapace 9y ago

I love this. I'd like to have offices in a ring around the globe, maybe one in every other time-zone, each with an open floor plan and two opposite walls set up as full video walls with cameras and two-way connections so that it supports the illusion of looking into the neighboring offices through windows. There would be sound if you're standing close enough, and several scanner/printers (FAX machines lol!) connected so that you could feed a hard-copy to someone on the "other side" of the "window". It would be so cool to look "across" the distributed meta-office and SEE the day/night cycle all at once though the real windows in the offices.

FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago

Eh, that seems like a much cooler idea implemented with untethered VR/AR lenses rather than screens everywhere. I don't like being on camera so it personally gives me the creeps.