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Or maybe even just an always-on video setup. Basically use the following innovations to connect an office in SF with one in Fresno: 1.) MIT Stanford Wormhole

by jpao79 9y ago

Or maybe even just an always-on video setup. Basically use the following innovations to connect an office in SF with one in Fresno: 1.) MIT Stanford Wormhole http://archive.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2011/08/22/wormhole_links_mit_and_stanford/ http://archive.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2011/... The designers of the installation, who call it the wormhole, say it is meant to encourage random encounters between students and staff at two of the country’s premier technology-oriented universities. Someone at MIT’s Stata Center for Computer, Information, and Intelligence Sciences, hungry for lunch and conversation, will be able to chat under the dome with a stranger who’s grabbing a morning coffee in Stanford’s Huang Engineering Center. Casual meetings can be held at the wormhole. New ideas may be spurred, new science inspired. 2.) Google Fiber 3.) 200 inch LED video wall https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/07/samsung-4k-146-inch-microled-wall-ces-2018/ https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/07/samsung-4k-146-inch-micr...

mncharity 9y ago
> Or maybe even just an always-on video Or perhaps video in addition to XR? HMDs don't entirely play well with eyes (at least until we get adaptive optics or light fields), so I want to give my eyes a break periodically. A video wall in the kitchen would permit a "let's take a break" conversation with a non-local colleague. The power of the XR argument, is that if your ideal development environment is XR, and your ideal collaboration context is via XR, then locality constraints have simply gone away. Rather than video's challenge of being an impoverished medium, which may or may not be worth some non-locality benefit. > MIT Stanford Wormhole I spent a lot of time in Stata, over may years, and I'm not sure I ever saw the "wormhole" used. But perhaps there was some pattern of use, like late lunch, which I systematically missed. And one can walk by the cafeteria without easily noticing.

by jpao79 9y ago

mncharity 9y ago

> Or maybe even just an always-on video Or perhaps video in addition to XR? HMDs don't entirely play well with eyes (at least until we get adaptive optics or light fields), so I want to give my eyes a break periodically. A video wall in the kitchen would permit a "let's take a break" conversation with a non-local colleague. The power of the XR argument, is that if your ideal development environment is XR, and your ideal collaboration context is via XR, then locality constraints have simply gone away. Rather than video's challenge of being an impoverished medium, which may or may not be worth some non-locality benefit. > MIT Stanford Wormhole I spent a lot of time in Stata, over may years, and I'm not sure I ever saw the "wormhole" used. But perhaps there was some pattern of use, like late lunch, which I systematically missed. And one can walk by the cafeteria without easily noticing.