Desktop 2.0
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/?v=M0ODskdEPnQ" width="350" height="350" zindex="-1"][/gv]Now this is a little bit closer to how I envisioned the new generation of computer desktops. I’m not too sure how usable this would actually be in a real life scenario, but it certainly looks cool. Don’t expect to be playing around with this anytime soon. I would expect something similar to this in Windows Vienna which is slated for 2010 release. Is it too much to ask to have a holographic desktop?
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Certainly, if this were implemented, from a technological standpoint, it would be cool. No question. And God knows that technologically cool really speaks to me. Over and over again, in my job, I am guilty of falling in love with cool technologies (most recently Ajax in general and Dojo in particular). But inevitably, I am reminded that there must be some real business problem to be solved in order to make a cool technology viable. Otherwise, it’s just a plaything for techies (which is not, in and of itself, a bad thing).
In this demo, I was very impressed with the vision, but had a hard time seeing how this would solve any significant business problem. Certainly, the innovative thinking behind it has the potential to make a difference. I think we are on the verge of seeing and expecting a great deal more from computers in terms of how we interact with them, and maybe that was really the point behind this. But it’s tough to see a video like that, where they give very concrete examples of what they propose, without thinking, “will this truly make things better, or is it just cool”? That’s always a tougher question to answer than it might seem.