{"id":314,"date":"2005-03-30T19:28:45","date_gmt":"2005-03-30T19:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/314"},"modified":"2005-03-30T19:28:45","modified_gmt":"2005-03-30T19:28:45","slug":"what-are-the-front-runners-for-the-future-of-mobile-displays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/314","title":{"rendered":"What are the front-runners for the future of mobile displays?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/siemens-projector-phone.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Siemens <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news3505.html\">demonstrated<\/a> a prototype cellphone with a built-in projector at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cebit.de\/homepage_e?x=1\">CeBIT 2005<\/a> last week. (Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/fac\/Thad.Starner\/\">Thad<\/a> for the link.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m curious whether this kind of technology will win out in the long run. It&#8217;s clear it fills a need \u2014 the PDA\/cellphone small screen is fine up to a point, but in general we want big screen real estate in a small package, and you just can&#8217;t get that with today&#8217;s rigid screens. There are a few competing models though, each with their own strengths and weaknesses.<\/p>\n<p>Ordered from most personal &#038; on-the-move to most public &apm; in situ:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><b>Head-mounted displays:<\/b> good for private information and information on-the-move, bad for showing anything to someone else.<\/li>\n<li><b>Roll-up or fold-up displays:<\/b> small when being carried but still gives however much screen real estate you need when you need it.<\/li>\n<li><b>Projector systems:<\/b> good for turning any table or wall into a touch-sensitive display, but require a flat light-colored surface and can&#8217;t be used on-the-move or privately. Unclear if they could ever be as good resolution as the other options unless you carry your own high-quality screen as well (making it something of a hybrid projector \/ roll-up display).<\/li>\n<li><b>Ubiquitous displays:<\/b> great resolution, requires that you&#8217;re somewhere that has accessible displays at your disposal. Can&#8217;t be used on-the-move at all and also requires that you trust the infrastructure you&#8217;re using.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Of course we might also wind up with several systems and use whatever works best in a given situation, just like we have both laptop and PDAs today. But if one niche winds up being vital (say, everyone needs information while on-the-move so everyone wears an HMD) <em>and<\/em> if it winds up being good enough for the other niches then that tech will eat the others, just like we&#8217;re seeing laptops more and more often being used as desktop-replacements today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/siemens-projector-phone.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Siemens <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news3505.html\">demonstrated<\/a> a prototype cellphone with a built-in projector at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cebit.de\/homepage_e?x=1\">CeBIT 2005<\/a> last week. (Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/fac\/Thad.Starner\/\">Thad<\/a> for the link.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m curious whether this kind of technology will win out in the long run. It&#8217;s clear it fills a need \u2014 the PDA\/cellphone small screen is fine up to a point, but in general we want big screen real estate in a small package, and you just can&#8217;t get that with today&#8217;s rigid screens. There are a few competing models though, each with their own strengths and weaknesses.<\/p>\n<p>Ordered from most personal &#038; on-the-move to most public &apm; in situ:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><b>Head-mounted displays:<\/b> good for private information and information on-the-move, bad for showing anything to someone else.<\/li>\n<li><b>Roll-up or fold-up displays:<\/b> small when being carried but still gives however much screen real estate you need when you need it.<\/li>\n<li><b>Projector systems:<\/b> good for turning any table or wall into a touch-sensitive display, but require a flat light-colored surface and can&#8217;t be used on-the-move or privately. Unclear if they could ever be as good resolution as the other options unless you carry your own high-quality screen as well (making it something of a hybrid projector \/ roll-up display).<\/li>\n<li><b>Ubiquitous displays:<\/b> great resolution, requires that you&#8217;re somewhere that has accessible displays at your disposal. Can&#8217;t be used on-the-move at all and also requires that you trust the infrastructure you&#8217;re using.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Of course we might also wind up with several systems and use whatever works best in a given situation, just like we have both laptop and PDAs today. But if one niche winds up being vital (say, everyone needs information while on-the-move so everyone wears an HMD) <em>and<\/em> if it winds up being good enough for the other niches then that tech will eat the others, just like we&#8217;re seeing laptops more and more often being used as desktop-replacements today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wearable-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}