Google is preparing for screenless computers

[jos]

 

At this point, voice commands are a little-used feature of most people’s everyday interactions with computers, if we’re using them at all. Between the present and a future in which we are reliably interacting with computers by voice alone, there are a number of challenges, some of them fundamental to what we think of as a computer interface

 

Source: http://qz.com/115304

[Samskip]

For gaming I would still prefer a screen. Imagine if you have to game with voice alone: ''Walk  forward'',  ''Shoot that guy!'',   ''Capture the flag now".

[MsTrMind]

For gaming I would still prefer a screen. Imagine if you have to game with voice alone: ''Walk  forward'',  ''Shoot that guy!'',   ''Capture the flag now".

How about "Kill everyone, win the game" and you just come back 5 minutes later :p

[ColemanR]

I think they mean "keyboard and mouseless"... not screenless...

 

how else would you even see what you're doing?

 

Even google glass has some sort of "screen".  

[Samskip]

How about "Kill everyone, win the game" and you just come back 5 minutes later :P

Haha   :P , but then the game would crash because everybody is asking for the same thing.

[MsTrMind]

Haha   :P , but then the game would crash because everybody is asking for the same thing.

NO! The one with the best system would win, because he has more calculating power :D

The day artificial intelligence works good, this would be possible to do :p

[heineygoat]

Always use voice command to set my alarm, but thats about it. Who would want to speak to their device in public? 

[sof006]

Always use voice command to set my alarm, but thats about it. Who would want to speak to their device in public? 

I already do, and if it catches on then lots of people will be doing it.