[varl]

Every now and again I come back to this, and think that this is the future in user interfaces. It would unite tablets, pc and mobile platforms around a single ui concept. I could use my PC to write something and then grab my tablet and connect to the same canvas and proof-read it.

We can have different viewports connected to the same infinite canvas at the same time and visualise them.

Much of our lives, even at home, is spent in this virtual space, so why not share it with one another?

If I was sharing my home computer with my partner over remote viewports, I can pan over to the place at the canvas she was currently using as her viewport and get a visual connection with what she was doing and interact a bit.

Of course you could have a "redacted session" in which case the area used as viewport would be blacked out, if you need secrecy for e.g. work.

I really enjoy the concept of sharing one computer and at the same time, like virtual space in addition to apartment space. This is, pretty much, a user interface extension of finger[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_protocol

[andrewflnr]

I think I upvoted you (darn tablet). Anyway, I completely agree. It's too bad it seems to have been passed over in the rush to "innovate on mobile" and whatnot

[varl]

It's common that good ideas exist for a very long time before technology enables them, yet I feel that we are at that point /now/ and have been for a while, yet there is little-to-no activity in this area.