Open Screen Project and Duran Duran
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Last night my girlfriend Linda took me to see a Duran Duran concert in Concord. It was a funny flashback to the 80's and aging rock stars aside, it was great fun. At one point in the concert the band went into a slow song and the lights dimmed causing the audience to pull out their phones and a few remaining lighters. The thing that struck me was there was a single computer on stage, an Apple MacBook Pro, and easily 5,000+ phones in the air. That really hit me and seeing so many programmatic devices with a user interface was really stunning.
To say it isn't drop dead essential that Flash Player and AIR support these screens is an understatement. It is a massive opportunity to release the creativity of the Adobe design and development community on making these screen experiences better.
5,000 screens vs 1 computer
Open Screen Project
cheers,
Ted :)
I suspect that out of the 5000 phones, MAYBE one good shot was taken. But, at least the historic event will saved in digital form for what purpose I'm not sure--but okay, that's cool.
Seriously, what I don't get is when you say "and AIR"... I hear it a lot. AIR is a player... the player is not part of the open screen thing. On top of this, is there really any difference? Seeing how there are approximately 0 AIR players for phones currently, what will be the difference (between a browser flash player, a desktop flash player (AIR), and another desktop flash player (flashlite?)? I'm totally confused... I mean, I get it--Flash can be everywhere and that I'm excited about... I hear a lot terms thrown around that I don't understand (not so much by you Ted, though in this case I'm not sure what you're saying). Maybe you can help me see what we're all talking about! Thanks!
AIR on mobile runs .air applications standalone on a device. If you take the same .air file to you desktop it runs the same. Flash player on mobile supports in browser Web content via swf.
More to come as all is in development.
Cheers,
ted
I think at this point Adobe should get more people involved and make concept clear. As an example, Android is not released, but emulation software and plugins are, so you can start develop concept applications and design cross functionality.
What would really help is release of .air player library with "phone API" extensions. People should be able to get familiar with limited guesture system in the phone, screen formats, and APIs targeted specifically for the phones / players. Other pieces like device codecs support / VoIP / camera / bluetooth/GPS have to go through "reference implementation" and standardization - with emulation services like Pacifica for now - but more toward mainstream standards as phones need to be as close to current standards as possible - too much infrastructure is already in place.
It has been very frustrating in my experience to deal with incomplete and closed Java RFCs on the current crop of the phones - Adobe should not repeat the same mistake.
Sincerely,
Anatole Tartakovsky
It's good to see that Adobe have realized that Flash Lite just isn't cutting it for mobile. Great things to come.
Cool, okay. But, how is AIR part of the "open screen project"
lol, thats funny. You went to see a gig and somehow what you managed to take from that was something about the Flash player.
I went to see a scandinavian black metal band and i couldnt stop thinking about caingorm frameworks. mmm mmmm mmmmmm, frameworks!!ai
Actually, I was there too and I had my MacBook Air in a manila folder. So, 5000 phones to TWO computers.
i rally don't udnerstand what you guys are talkin' aboot here! :)
In the old days you didn't see duran duran on TV commercials in the UK, but they were happy to push whisky in japan
http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/duran-duran-commercial-for-suntory-whiskey-q/