[haiku-development] Re: A tale of two accelerant API's

  • From: Jessica Hamilton <jessica.l.hamilton@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:14:43 +1300

> When we have wireless displays which have speakers and input (touch, most
> likely, possibly with a physical keyboard connected by wireless or USB to
> the display) then Haiku will want to be able to connect to those devices
> and treat them either as a cloned unit, or as an independent user
> session...  Then you could have one computer for the house / school room /
> library, and multiple heads with which users interact.  I think this is a
> decade or more off... wireless bandwidth is drying up quickly and displays
> are very bandwidth heavy...  though there is nothing stopping someone from
> developing cheap fiber-optic cabling to run the displays and having this go
> mainstream...oh, except Microsoft again... since the hardware makers
> usually must follow their lead.
>

You realise Intel Wireless Display is already an out-there technology,
enabled on 3rd Gen Intel Core CPUs, and implemented in TVs available in
stores, as well as support in some newer Android devices.

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