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"Laptops have a problem: their screen. There’s only one, and it’s too small,
too far away, and too public. Sightful thinks that it’s solved that problem
with the Spacetop, a laptop that gets rid of the screen entirely and uses
augmented reality to create a 100-inch virtual display floating in front of
your face.
And you know what? It works.
It’s immediately apparent that something is different. Clamshell laptops fold
flat, and thin; the Sightful Spacetop looks more like a rubberized, squarish
calzone, wrapped in the sort of protective cover you’d see enfold an Apple iPad
or Amazon Kindle. Unfold the cover, and what makes the Spacetop special is
revealed: a pair of thin, tethered, augmented glasses that sit where you’d
expect to find the laptop’s display planted.
Put simply, the Sightful Spacetop is designed for business travelers who want a
laptop with a massive, private “display” that no one else can see. Put the
glasses on, and a massive, curved virtual monitor appears before you, reaching
above, below, and to the sides. You can pin and resize windowed apps: Gmail,
YouTube, Word, Microsoft Teams. The Spacetop is a device that you could use on
a plane flight (if you don’t mind the odd looks), in a business or airport
lounge (ditto), or even working in a conference room where you’d like a bigger
screen.
Priced at $2,000, the Spacetop is purpose-built as a business tool, with an
optimized Arm processor, AOSP (open-source Android) operating system, and, of
course, the custom headset. But you’ll need to act fast: Sightful is inviting
just 1,000 early adopters to purchase the final hardware, enticing them with
the opportunity to provide feedback on subsequent products."
Via Wayne Radinsky.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
