Sunglasses with embedded cameras recording holiday experiences, 'mediascapes' where handheld devices interact with locations for education and real-life gaming, and video conferencing systems which put people from four locations in the same room - this is the future digital lifestyle according to HP.
Susie Wee, director of the Mobile and Media Systems Lab at HP Labs, outlined some of the projects the company is working on in the Digital Life Theater at ITU Telecom World yesterday.
Based on the principle of 'creating great experiences by making networks smarter,' Wie said HP's new generation of products were equally designed to enhance lifestyles and deliver new business applications.
The new Halo product, for example, developed with film studio Dreamworks, was able to make 16 people from four separate locations feel as if they were in the same room together. Instead of businesspeople traveling all day for a one-hour meeting, all they would need to do was gather in a studio at their workplace or in their city.
The 'mediascape' product - where handheld devices interact with specific locations to deliver information, sound and images - was tested as an interactive game at the Tower of London as an 'escape game'with great success.