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CEDIA’s Tech Council Sees the Future, Part 1: In No Particular Order<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Prediction 1: Mixed reality rooms will begin to replace home theater. <\/p>\n CEDIA’s Tech Council Sees the Future, Part 2: Wes Anderson\u2019s Favorite Screen<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Prediction 13. Full-wall video with multiscreens will appear in the home. <\/strong>Here\u2019s something interesting: The first three predictions in this set of 10 all have an origin in commercial applications. This one \u2014 think of it more as digital signage than sports bar \u2014 will allow the user to have access to a wall that includes a weather app, a Twitter feed, a Facebook page, the latest episode of Chopped, a Cubs game, and literally anything else a member \u2014 or members \u2014 of the family are interested in. The unintended consequences: some 13-year-old will one day actually utter the phrase, \u201cMOM! Can you minimize your Snapchat already!?!\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n CEDIA’s Tech Council Sees the Future, Part 3: Glass, Moore\u2019s Law, and \u201cAutopilot\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Prediction 22: Intelligent glass will be used as a control interface, entertainment platform, comfort control, and communication screen. <\/strong>Gordon van Zuiden says, \u201cWe live in a world of touch, glass-based icons. Obviously the phone is the preeminent example \u2014 what if all the glass that\u2019s around you in the house could have some level of projection so that shower doors, windows, and mirrors could be practical interfaces?\u201d Extend that smart concept to surfaces that don\u2019t just respond to touch, but to gesture and voice \u2014 and now extend that to surfaces outside the home.\u00a0 <\/p>\n Prediction 28: User-programmable platforms based on interoperable systems will be the new control and integration paradigm. <\/strong>YOU: \u201cAlexa, please find Casablanca on Apple TV and send it to my Android phone. And order up a pizza.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n CEDIA’s Tech Council Sees the Future, Part 4: \u201cAnything That Can Be Hacked, Will Be Hacked\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Prediction 34. Consumer sensors will increase in sensitivity and function. <\/strong>The Internet of Things will become a lot like Santa: \u201cIoT sees you when you\u2019re sleeping\/IoT knows when you\u2019re awake\/IoT knows if you\u2019ve been bad or good\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n CEDIA\u2019s Tech Council Predicts the Future, Part 5: Getting Older<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Prediction 47. Policy and technology will drive the security concerns over internet and voice connected devices. <\/strong>\u201cWhen you add the complexity of \u2018always on, always listening\u2019 connected devices \u2026 keeping the consumer\u2019s best interests in mind might not always be top of mind for corporations [producing these devices],\u201d notes Maniscalco. \u201c[A corporation\u2019s] interest is usually in profits.\u201d Maniscalco believes that a consumer push for legislation on the dissemination of the information a company can collect will be the \u201cspark that ignites true security and privacy for the consumer.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>As Eric Johnson summed up last year in Recode<\/a>, \u201cto borrow an example from Microsoft\u2019s presentation at the gaming trade show E3, you might be looking at an ordinary table, but see an interactive virtual world from the video game Minecraft sitting on top of it. As you walk around, the virtual landscape holds its position, and when you lean in close, it gets closer in the way a real object would.\u201d Can a \u201cholographic\u201d cinema experience really be that far off? With 3D sound? And Smell-O-Vision?<\/p>\n
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