| dib8rman said: Your first paragraph was dead on, which is why I think it would be cool if Home or Sony to clarify did make an OS, for their hardware, if Sony continues their style of driving the bleeding edge. (Their new style) then Home must be it, but the 3d world and how that would work with the simple but indepth functions of a windowed OS would have too many vents before you could get anything done. That's when I read the article where a developer (3rd party) noted that Home litterally had sub parts to it, similar to the structure of a drop tree style used into directories on Windows., that's when the online functions hit me, that the foreseen Home may use some manner of search just like on the internet today, to get to each branch. But my main thing was that XMB would keep it's current simplicity, meaning I would buy that OS, which is why I said I'm viewing it like a consumer. Having something else search for you is much faster than clicking on serveral layers or branches or icons. Beyond that what this Home could bring to the plate that Windows hasn't brough yet.. the possibilities resemble the new possibilities developers who embraced the Wiimote faced. Specially now with the 1:1. As for the pointer, I'd figure they are gunning for Eye toy to work as a pointer, but that's just me speculating now and nothing else, I have seen software using it as a pointer in action... it's not user friendly in my opinion though. |
Glad to hear I finally understood you :) There are things happening in the virtual-3D-world -dimension, and quite interesting things at that. For many things, having a 3D world allows for an easy and intuitive way for users to approach things they want to do. For example: want to listen to internet radio? Just go to the radio and turn it on and choose your channel. Want to write a document? Go to the desk and start writing on the paper n the desk. There are applications where home automation has been built-in to a Second Life replica of your home, so you can control your home from anywhere and see the changes immediately. If this is the direction where Sony is going with their Home, then I have to adjust my thinking about them, 'cause that's a really long term commitment and a risky strategy that could pay off big time in the next 10-20 years.
If you want to check out a cool open source project, see realXtend. I've met the guy who's kind of behind that project, not technologically but as a driving force and funding it, and what he told about it and his visions for it were really just mind blowing. So, if Sony has similar ambitions for Home, my hat's off for them.
