[ethereal_int]

Personally I'd like a heavy and large desktop that fits in a typical backpack complete with batteries, with a thin ultrabook like wireless screen+keyboard, detachable like the surface. I know i'm in a very tiny minority, but eventually with streaming solutions like the TPCast for Vive it might be viable (you can diy a 12volt desktop from 18650s, but probably not a good wireless hdmi yet). Or if not, hopefully when we get lighter and less obvious AR goggles.

I'm very aware it's a pretty impractical idea but i find it fun to think about :)

[cr0sh]

If it's already in a backpack, why would you need a wireless connection to the HMD?

Understandable, though, if you want to sit the pack down but still use the system.

Probably what would be better would be some kind of wireless datalink to the HMD, and have the video processing on the HMD itself (instead of sending frame/interframe data - just send the data to render the frame, and let the HMD do the processing - essentially moving the video card to the HMD - this would, though, still require more than a bit of bandwidth, but maybe not as much as HDMI?).

[ethereal_int]

Yes, basically have it somewhat stealthy, where i would use the laptop as a laptop and sit the backpack anywhere in the room. And moving the video card to the HMD wouldn't make that much sense for me because that's the main desktop part i would like to stay desktop class.

And I think Google and Microsoft are hoping to get a version of this with hololens and tango, where they run machine models and cloud resources when needed and just get the results/models to run on the mobile devices. Still very much in its infancy though.

[ianai]

Something like that was my day dream when the original iPod came out. I even emailed sjobs suggesting it.

[ethereal_int]

Glad to know i wasn't the only one :)