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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 5032080" data-attributes="member: 4720">Ah.  Now we're getting somewhere. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />It's not going to replace computers.  It will supplement them and expand them into the living room for a larger segment of the population.  It's going to be a new (occasionally better) way to do some computer applications.  It will also be a new way to do some currently non-computer games that will be at least better for some, though probably worse for others.  It better talk to all my media devices and give me a series of super cool UIs for interacting with them.  There will also be completely new ideas invented for it that I can't currently wrap my head around because the thing isn't common enough yet to have caused inspiration to the right people.That's always how it starts for a percentage of the population, though.  Not enough for you.  Not enough for me out of the gate for price reasons.  Then it will get cheaper to make them.  They'll get more common.  Then someone will make a "killer app" for it and it will jump to the top of my wish list.It will have different functionality, just from the sheer size of it.  You don't see having a table-sized virtual desktop as providing some ergonomic or ease-of-use benefits for some applications?  Or for sharing a computer application with multiple people in the same room?A big ol' shared computer space would actually be just nice to have, IMO.  My wife and I would definitely use if for both work and games, and my lord would it be cool for work.  The paperless lab could actually happen.Maybe I'm just a nerd who hangs out with nerdy people, but pulling up a Wikipedia page, a youtube video, or a neat journal article (what?  I hang out with other scientists <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> ) on the table when we're having a conversation among friends would be super convenient.  Right now we either need to relocate to the office or pass around someone's iphone if we want to share something like that, so not everyone at once can have the same experience.Shared social experience of all this digital stuff is something that is already pretty powerful.  Even if all this does is make that slightly more convenient, it will eventually become a big, fat, hairy deal.It's not perfect.  Needs to start somewhere though.  I'm choosing to be slightly more "Power to the People!" here, because I want part of my living room to act like the bridge of the Enterprise sooner rather than later. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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