Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.
Aurora (Part 2) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.
I like these new Aurora web browser mockup videos which are part of Mozilla’s push to develop the successor to Firefox (Call for participation). For the last 4 years I’ve been doing most of my work from home while relying on things like IM, video chat, screencasting, screen sharing, audio widgets, p2p file transfer, virtual worlds, Google apps and more. I look forward to having all of that be one seamless experience available to everyone.
The interface in the mockups looks a little complicated to me but I think they’ll find a way to simplify it some and people will get better with complicated interfaces. Also I like the iPhone-like hand held device in the second video. Already the iPhone let’s me get a lot of things done without carrying around a laptop. Hopefully in a few years I can ditch the laptop all together. Imagine basically that same hand held device in the video with your home computer’s apps and documents stored on it – then if you need to work on something requiring a big screen (like video editing) you could just set it next to a monitor and it will connect wirelessly to the display and keyboard (maybe I’ll make a video of this and submit it).
Hopefully this will all happen sooner rather than later and Half-Life 2 players are not as old as the couple in the second video before this thing is available!
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