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Show HN: Mosaic – Use multiple iPhones as one big screen
- gailees 14y agoThis is really neat...what would I want to use the SDK for though...?
- igul222 14y agoMulti-phone board games. Swipe-based file transfer. Multi-screen movie watching, video streaming, web browsing.
- timeshifter 14y ago>“Go to the store and buy an iPad now — Mosaic just made it worth more than my $1000 TV.” I feel sorry for that person.
- magicseth 14y agoThe Junkyard Jumbotron lets you use all sorts of devices, and it's web based. You arrange the screens in the positions you want, and each one displays a QR code. You take a picture of them all together, and the Jumbotron breaks the image up in to the right pieces: http://jumbotron.media.mit.edu/ http://jumbotron.media.mit.edu/
- igul222 14y agoProblems I see with that: it requires n+1 devices, it's less intuitive than swiping, and does anybody want to shift around heavy monitors and big screens anyway?
- EliRivers 14y agoIf that's what you have, your options are presumably use them, or run out and get a dozen iPhones. I know which I'd go for.
- gailees 14y agoWho uses QR codes?...
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- networked 14y agoThose are ARToolKit glyphs, not QR codes (see http://www.hitl.washington.edu/artoolkit/ http://www.hitl.washington.edu/artoolkit/).
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- rjvir 14y agoI saw this live at PennApps - it's incredible. It truly feels magic.
- gailees 14y agoYeah I honestly didn't believe that it actually worked when I saw the demo. Apparently, they even did it with video!?
- Terpaholic 14y agoIndeed - I saw it myself
- zalew 14y agowere you aware of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_%28web_browser%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_%28web_browser%29 when choosing the name?
- igul222 14y agoYes. There are a few other things out there using the name Mosaic, but we went through about a hundred names and really really liked this one, so we stuck with it.
- zalew 14y agoif you started an indie rock band, would you call yourself 'the beatles' :)?
- yefim323 14y agoThe Beatles are still listened to. This browser is no longer used. I don't see the parallel.
- MartinCron 14y agoI would go with "The Silver Beatles", naturally.
- ceejayoz 14y agoI'd imagine they were going more for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic
- nwh 14y agoIt's a pity they need such new devices, I've got a box full of old iPhones and iPods that this could have been used on.
- igul222 14y agoThe limit in the system is that we don't have enough devs to do everything we want to do right now, but we're working on it!
- mortenjorck 14y agoI really like the business model here: Free, simple standalone app that serves as a fun proof-of-concept, supported by a commercial SDK for the inevitable ideas you'll come up with. Smart.
- piyush_soni 14y agoJust wondering on your business model. Do you really expect there would be many people with so many iPhones to use this for the purpose of making a big screen? Because those who don't already have, would probably just buy one big screen IMO...
- joelhaasnoot 14y agoJust think of all the concerts, festivals and other large-scale events though that could make a huge mosaic with the crowd instead of using lighters!
- romeonova 14y agoIf only I have multiple devices laying around.
- ricardobeat 14y agoProps for the very clever position detection!
- sebastianbruce 14y agoJust downloaded it, loving it so far!
- paul9290 14y agoNice... us hackers must be thinking the same thing lately - let's use multiple IP devices to do X. We just released... SpeakerBlast - Turn multiple friends' IP devices into one massive stereo system. Checking out Mosiac ... i wonder what other uses of multiple IP devices can be put to use to?
- igul222 14y agoCongratulations on getting SpeakerBlast to work! We've tried doing that before, but getting the time delay low enough for it to sound good is incredibly challenging.
- paul9290 14y agothanks! I can see an ad agency using Mosiac at conference for Point of Sale demo. 100 person ad agency tells their employees, "Hey bring your Ipads to the conference we're gonna use them to create one huge TV for our video demo." Cool stuff.
- samstave 14y agoTraffic sensors, temp sensors, sound sensors, flock orientation, record video from multiple perspectives, record audio from multiple perspectives, proximity team gaming.... I expect Mosaic to be a default, obvious tool for all generations. Set one device as the master - and anyone with a screen can add their real-estate. What would be interesting would be for the app to have a master push out an audio tone and the slaves would listen for the tone and determine their proximity based on the tone and how well it could hear it...
- leeoniya 14y agomost expensive screen ever.
- undershirt 14y agoVery neat art experiment and interface implementation. I love it. I can see a lot of fun social table top games using this.
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- atlex2 14y agoThanks! For sure drop us a line and we can get you building on it! everyone@mosaic.io
- haraball 14y agoHere's another relevant project by Seb Lee-Delisle: http://seb.ly/2011/09/pixelphones-a-huge-display-made-with-smart-phones/ http://seb.ly/2011/09/pixelphones-a-huge-display-made-with-s...
- zan2434 14y agovery clever implementation with the flashes! We'd love to see Mosaic used at such a large scale
- ranman 14y agoStill using MongoDB on the backend?
- igul222 14y agoAmong other things, yes!
- robwgibbons 14y agoThis is a really neat project. My only comment is that I don't see much of a real-world use case for it. It strikes me as a one-off or a novelty app that'll be old news as soon as it hits. Don't take my word for it, though. Hope it gets traction!
- username3 14y agoDo photos pan and zoom in sync?
- prawn 14y agoVideo doesn't demonstrate, but does it work with angled screens?
- tiredofcareer 14y agoMaybe I'm sentimental, but you should rebrand. I think NCSA Mosaic holds a position of antiquity in a lot of hacker minds, and Mosaic is a special name to me. Or, maybe we'll eventually run out of English words and start recycling anyway, and I should move on. Tough to say.
- rayiner 14y agoI would pay a bunch of money for an app that lets me drag windows from my MBA to my iPad.
- rdouble 14y agohttp://avatron.com/apps/air-display http://avatron.com/apps/air-display
- dannowatts 14y agothis seems fun! and not to be a downer, but can someone give me some examples on how this would be used in the everyday setting?
- imaginator 14y agoThis looks similar to the free Blinkendroid app for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.cbase.blinkendroid https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.cbase.blin...