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[Mika Meskanen <mika.meskanen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting…

I think enabling the phone as smart remote to TV is a baseline requirement. That's something to start thinking about already today.

The collaborative, multi-device, shared screen scenario is more ambitious, but if we come up with a number of compelling scenarios (Novacut example is a good start) we can to build understanding around the subject.

There are some interesting multi-screen entertainment scenarios as well. E.g. Live football match on TV, phone as remote, and tablet as secondary channel to display scores / live tables. There are many more, I'm sure.


Mika



On 18 Nov 2011, at 08:37, Karloman De Waarachtige wrote:

> 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?
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> 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.
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> Regs,
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> 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/
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> 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.
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> Cheers, chr
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> 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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