Make Any Surface an Android Touch Screen
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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thanks to AMD for sponsoring this video from CS 2017 learn more about their
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ryzen processors at the link in the video description so behind me is the
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Sony Xperia projector they're not giving
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us a price they're not giving us any concrete specs but they are telling us
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how it is intended to work now I've seen projected touchscreen interfaces before
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there was kind of a weird keyboard like take your keyboard with you anywhere thing but it didn't really work that
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well this is a whole other level this is a full-fledged Android experience that
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is projected simply by putting it down on a table onto a 23in display with
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10-point multi-touch and it's got a bunch of other cool stuff in it as well
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dual microphones for Okay Google stereo speakers it's got an infrared sensor on
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the bottom that's how it handles multi-touch it's got NFC Bluetooth Wi-Fi
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it's got a 13 megapixel camera which I'll talk a little bit more about why you would want a block in the middle of
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your dining room table with a camera on it later and finally it's got a built
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battery that's going to have a capacity somewhere in between unplug it to move
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it somewhere else without rebooting it and actually watching a movie on it so
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use case number one is pretty simple let's say you're in oh I don't know the
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kitchen uh being able to sit and read the news or plan out your day while
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you're eating your cereal without getting you know milk all over your phone or your tablet I'm liking this
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what about cooking now you've got a 23in display that you can interact with and
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see your recipe and once you've you know gotten everything all messy like I know
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I do you go ahead you cover the infrared sensor wipe it up freaking fantastic
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love it moving over to the dining room table multiplayer gaming on Android yeah
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it sucks doesn't it why does it suck not because there aren't games actually but
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the fact that the screens are so small means you're really not having a very interactive experience or you're bumping
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heads it gets a little too interactive so they did a demo where I'm playing
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this game head-to-head against one of the Sony reps and it actually feels like
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sitting and playing a board game freaking cool so whether you looking at
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like photos or you're you know collaborating on a document or something
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I'm liking that too but you flip it up now you're in the living room I like
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this one best so by moving it 25 cm away from the wall you can get up to an 80-in
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screen is it competitive with a multi projector come on get real yes it's a
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laser projector but no that's dumb but if you're in a dorm or something like
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that you've got some friends over it is absolutely an acceptable way to watch a
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movie and if you want to play games they've got a tie in with PlayStation so
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let's say you live in a mult screen house someone wants the TV you go okay
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well I'll just grab the projector head over somewhere else and I can play off
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the PlayStation remotely over the Wi-Fi liking that too last but not least let's
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get back to the camera Skype calls cool
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right okay the Wi-Fi and the hotel sucked so we couldn't actually perform a
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Skype call but you can see in the preview here that the wide angle view of
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us on the couch actually looks pretty darn good and bionic couch I of course
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mean huddled together behind the tripod so there's a couple use cases for it but
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of course there are going to be more so let me know in the comments guys if you
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can think of what you would use a little kind of flexible pocket projector like
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this for so thanks for watching our content from CES 2017 guys make sure you
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