Article:		Expo Speculations
Subject:		wireless displays?
Date:		2004-01-06 02:41:18
From:		anonymous2
Response to: wireless displays?
The technology doesn't exist? Tell that to ViewSonic: http://www.arstechnica.com/reviews/003/airpanel/airpanel-1.html

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• wireless displays?
  2004-01-06 03:56:09  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  The Airpanel is NOT a wireless display. It is a computer itself with its own video card and display built in. What makes it wireless is its wireless ethernet connection back to a PC running windows terminal server.
  
  This is Microsoft's Mira technology that they introduced the 2002 CES. Is part of Windows CE .NET and uses Remote Desktop technology.
  
  The wireless displays that Mr. Swaine asks for are a long way from reality, and I think that was his point. As long as he's asking for so much already, what's "just" this one more thing?
• wireless displays?
  2004-01-06 06:50:36  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  "The Airpanel is NOT a wireless display. It is a computer itself with its own video card and display built in. What makes it wireless is its wireless ethernet connection back to a PC running windows terminal server."
  
  I think that you're making a meaningless distinction. Plenty of companies have shown "wireless displays" over the years (long before Mira, btw) and they've all been in effect, stripped down tablet computers connected to the base unit via wireless link. So if everyone making and selling the technology calls it a wireless display, I think it's OK for posters here to do so as well.
  
  I remember seeing Adobe demonstrate this (based on Display Postscript, and with a hardware company, I think National Semiconductor) three years ago ago at Seybold. It was a great tech demonstration (you could zoom into the display with no pixelation, for example), but as Mira is proving, not such a great hardware product idea -- you can remote control a machine with any wireless computer and VNC and achieve the same effect, without requiring any new hardware, between virtually any two computers (i.e. your wireless Palm, your laptop, Sun or Linux server, Mac, etc.) not just between custom hardware and an XP server.