We've been talking about the living room and playing games on the AppleTV.... Maybe even some multiplayer games on the AppleTV using our iPads or iPhones as game controllers/mirrors.
Think about that, a multiplayer game using AirPlay and iDevices as controllers/mirrors -- is a form of collaboration.
We may be ignoring the elephant in the room!
For AppleTV, the elephant in the room may be the room itself
Think about collaboration in the classroom, meeting room, lunchroom, boardroom, lecture room, operating room, examination room…
It's been a while, but the last time I looked -- most classrooms have a TV. What if those classroom TVs had an AppleTV with apps that let the teacher and the students collaborate with their iPads.
The same thing goes for all the other rooms listed above…
I suspect that there is rooms for Apple to sell hundreds of millions of AppleTVs.
I am in Pro AV, and I see quite a few AppleTVs in meeting rooms, and even construction trailers during the process of getting facilities built. It's a great way to put up PDF plans on a projector from an iPad for collaboration purposes. Obviously, not everyone has MacBooks out there, but there are certain companies that have enough users with MacBooks to further justify having some ATVs on hand for a cheap and easy way to wirelessly connect to a projector. Right now, I'm not so sure all the tools are there for larger deployments in the enterprise, or classrooms for that matter (how would one manage hundreds of ATVs in a facility?), but if anyone out there has some suggestions, I'd like to hear them.
I can think of several ways…
In the way I'm thinking about it, each location (classroom for example) would have an ad hoc network for the students and the teacher within the classroom -- while they are within that particular classroom... So, the teacher would control and delegate access to the AppleTVs within the room -- a blank sate, so to speak.
Now, students go from classroom to classroom throughout the day based upon their schedule. Each student's iPad could look for a specific connection to whatever AppleTVs are in the classroom that they're supposed to be in, at a given time of the day.
IBeacons could be used to detect proximity, and negotiate an AirPlay WiFi standby connection with the AppleTVs. Then, the instructor could enable individuals to go from standby to active AirPlay, as desired...
Not too difficult really... Considering we were doing something similar to this in 1980 on Apple ][ computers on a classroom network.
The new Library - Event/Clip paradigm in iMovie and FCP 10.1 is a graphic representation of an SQLite database -- that could manage AppleTV AirPlay access quite nicely!
In the way I'm thinking about it, each location (classroom for example) would have an ad hoc network for the students and the teacher within the classroom -- while they are within that particular classroom... So, the teacher would control and delegate access to the AppleTVs within the room -- a blank sate, so to speak.
Now, students go from classroom to classroom throughout the day based upon their schedule. Each student's iPad could look for a specific connection to whatever AppleTVs are in the classroom that they're supposed to be in, at a given time of the day.
IBeacons could be used to detect proximity, and negotiate an AirPlay WiFi standby connection with the AppleTVs. Then, the instructor could enable individuals to go from standby to active AirPlay, as desired...
Not too difficult really... Considering we were doing something similar to this in 1980 on Apple ][ computers on a classroom network.
The new Library - Event/Clip paradigm in iMovie and FCP 10.1 is a graphic representation of an SQLite database -- that could manage AppleTV AirPlay access quite nicely!
Hmm, some good ideas in there. Seems like a custom app would be required to make it all work, though wouldn't it? Not that that is a deal-breaker. Including iBeacon for proximity detection is a nice touch.
A potential hang is that each ATV has to be configured individually (so far as I know). If there was some way to configure/image a bunch of ATVs at once, that would really help.
The corporate meeting room scenario might be a bit thornier. In these environments, it is easy to provide a cable to anyone, even a guest, to connect a laptop to a projector (iPad cable adapters not as commonly available, but easy too). Requiring guests to connect to a corporate network to display on screen is not as straightforward and would likely bump into IT policy issues. Even ad hoc networks might not go over too well.
There are commercial products designed for wireless connection to displays, but they are usually much more expensive, or limited (or both). A $99 ATV is a real bargain in this application.
Anyway, I appreciate the food for thought. I'm looking forward to seeing what direction this "room" use of AppleTV might take.
In the way I'm thinking about it, each location (classroom for example) would have an ad hoc network for the students and the teacher within the classroom -- while they are within that particular classroom... So, the teacher would control and delegate access to the AppleTVs within the room -- a blank sate, so to speak.
Now, students go from classroom to classroom throughout the day based upon their schedule. Each student's iPad could look for a specific connection to whatever AppleTVs are in the classroom that they're supposed to be in, at a given time of the day.
IBeacons could be used to detect proximity, and negotiate an AirPlay WiFi standby connection with the AppleTVs. Then, the instructor could enable individuals to go from standby to active AirPlay, as desired...
Not too difficult really... Considering we were doing something similar to this in 1980 on Apple ][ computers on a classroom network.
The new Library - Event/Clip paradigm in iMovie and FCP 10.1 is a graphic representation of an SQLite database -- that could manage AppleTV AirPlay access quite nicely!
Hmm, some good ideas in there. Seems like a custom app would be required to make it all work, though wouldn't it? Not that that is a deal-breaker. Including iBeacon for proximity detection is a nice touch.
A potential hang is that each ATV has to be configured individually (so far as I know). If there was some way to configure/image a bunch of ATVs at once, that would really help.
The corporate meeting room scenario might be a bit thornier. In these environments, it is easy to provide a cable to anyone, even a guest, to connect a laptop to a projector (iPad cable adapters not as commonly available, but easy too). Requiring guests to connect to a corporate network to display on screen is not as straightforward and would likely bump into IT policy issues. Even ad hoc networks might not go over too well.
There are commercial products designed for wireless connection to displays, but they are usually much more expensive, or limited (or both). A $99 ATV is a real bargain in this application.
Anyway, I appreciate the food for thought. I'm looking forward to seeing what direction this "room" use of AppleTV might take.
Good questions...
The latest AppleTVs can be configured by touching an iPhone to it, using BLTE... Could also be done, en masse, with a Mac In a central location -- pretty easy app to write...
Again, we installed. an Apple ][ network in the boardroom of Applied Materials circa 1983. it was a wired network with computers that were far less powerful than an AppleTV or an iPad.
As in the classroom, you can have an ad hoc network with the AppleTVs... In addition to a "closed" network.
There are several inexpensive "whiteboard" apps available for iPads AirPlaying to AppleTVs... All this without any "central support from Apple.
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I can think of several ways…
In the way I'm thinking about it, each location (classroom for example) would have an ad hoc network for the students and the teacher within the classroom -- while they are within that particular classroom... So, the teacher would control and delegate access to the AppleTVs within the room -- a blank sate, so to speak.
Now, students go from classroom to classroom throughout the day based upon their schedule. Each student's iPad could look for a specific connection to whatever AppleTVs are in the classroom that they're supposed to be in, at a given time of the day.
IBeacons could be used to detect proximity, and negotiate an AirPlay WiFi standby connection with the AppleTVs. Then, the instructor could enable individuals to go from standby to active AirPlay, as desired...
Not too difficult really... Considering we were doing something similar to this in 1980 on Apple ][ computers on a classroom network.
The new Library - Event/Clip paradigm in iMovie and FCP 10.1 is a graphic representation of an SQLite database -- that could manage AppleTV AirPlay access quite nicely!
I can think of several ways…
In the way I'm thinking about it, each location (classroom for example) would have an ad hoc network for the students and the teacher within the classroom -- while they are within that particular classroom... So, the teacher would control and delegate access to the AppleTVs within the room -- a blank sate, so to speak.
Now, students go from classroom to classroom throughout the day based upon their schedule. Each student's iPad could look for a specific connection to whatever AppleTVs are in the classroom that they're supposed to be in, at a given time of the day.
IBeacons could be used to detect proximity, and negotiate an AirPlay WiFi standby connection with the AppleTVs. Then, the instructor could enable individuals to go from standby to active AirPlay, as desired...
Not too difficult really... Considering we were doing something similar to this in 1980 on Apple ][ computers on a classroom network.
The new Library - Event/Clip paradigm in iMovie and FCP 10.1 is a graphic representation of an SQLite database -- that could manage AppleTV AirPlay access quite nicely!
Hmm, some good ideas in there. Seems like a custom app would be required to make it all work, though wouldn't it? Not that that is a deal-breaker. Including iBeacon for proximity detection is a nice touch.
A potential hang is that each ATV has to be configured individually (so far as I know). If there was some way to configure/image a bunch of ATVs at once, that would really help.
The corporate meeting room scenario might be a bit thornier. In these environments, it is easy to provide a cable to anyone, even a guest, to connect a laptop to a projector (iPad cable adapters not as commonly available, but easy too). Requiring guests to connect to a corporate network to display on screen is not as straightforward and would likely bump into IT policy issues. Even ad hoc networks might not go over too well.
There are commercial products designed for wireless connection to displays, but they are usually much more expensive, or limited (or both). A $99 ATV is a real bargain in this application.
Anyway, I appreciate the food for thought. I'm looking forward to seeing what direction this "room" use of AppleTV might take.
Good questions...
The latest AppleTVs can be configured by touching an iPhone to it, using BLTE... Could also be done, en masse, with a Mac In a central location -- pretty easy app to write...
Again, we installed. an Apple ][ network in the boardroom of Applied Materials circa 1983. it was a wired network with computers that were far less powerful than an AppleTV or an iPad.
As in the classroom, you can have an ad hoc network with the AppleTVs... In addition to a "closed" network.
There are several inexpensive "whiteboard" apps available for iPads AirPlaying to AppleTVs... All this without any "central support from Apple.
But fortunately is was just an illusion - and in somewhat related news I love online shopping and use taobao shopping agents like http://www.buywithagents.com that allows you to buy goods from China even if (or rather when) you don't live in China.