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[Karloman De Waarachtige <karloman@xxxxxxxxx>]

I take it we're looking towards an app on ubuntu-phone/tablet to control
ubuntu-tv. This can be achieved through SSH or even VNC. Anyone following
me on this one?

In the hardware departement; http://www.boxee.tv has one of the best
remotes I've seen so far. One side has a D-Pad and one button; the other
side has a hardware keyboard (much preferred over a software one). Might be
interesting for canonical if they do decide to choose hardware over
software.

Regs,

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Christian Giordano <
christian.giordano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In the context of simply controlling the TV, and inspiring project might
> be Google Anymote: http://code.google.com/p/anymote-protocol/
>
> The possibility of collaborate on a software with more users in realtime
> and having the TV showing a different view of the process sounded
> complicated but at the end it is what already happens with many
> collaborative tools like Google Docs. So it will be a natural scenario when
> our applications will be more collaborative.
>
>
> Cheers, chr
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 1:32 AM, david jordan <dmj726@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> With Ubuntu now being targeted toward TVs as well as smartphones and
>> tablets, one thing that strikes me is that traditionally TVs have
>> traditionally struggled to accept inputs that don't fit into either preset
>> functions on the remote/controller or the equivalent of arrow keys +
>> Select.  (Think of all the interfaces on set top boxes that require the
>> user to enter text via an onscreen keyboard that can only be navigated via
>> arrow keys.)
>> While it's probably good to have basic functions accessible via this
>> standard remote  system, I think we can leverage Ubuntu on smartphones and
>> tablets to provide a much richer input system.  By allowing smartphones and
>> tablets to control the television, we could open up Ubuntu TVs for a wide
>> range of collaborative activities.
>> So you would have each of your group's tablets connect to the TV, start
>> up the application you want to work with, and begin working together.  This
>> could work differently depending on the use case.  Either everyone could be
>> working/playing together on the big screen, or individuals could work with
>> a network enabled application on their own tablet and then share their
>> progress directly on the TV with the others as they each made their own
>> adjustments.
>> In the case of a video editing project, say Novacut, each user would be
>> cutting a given scene, doing color correction, etc on their own Ubuntu
>> tablet, with the TV as a shared screen for showing progress, getting
>> feedback from the rest of the group, and keeping tabs on the state of the
>> edit as a whole.
>> I'm sure there are many other applications that could benefit from having
>> a shared screen interfaced with many tiny ones, especially ones where
>> people are trying to create and remix as a group as well as facilitating
>> social games.
>> David Jordan
>>
>>
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