I expect it humorlessly. In a lot of ways, computer screens can’t be improved upon that much:
The third dimension is unlikely to turn out to be useful when most of the work we do is already neglecting to use the color dimensions. Hopefully it’ll be useful to people who work with 3d objects (3d modellers) though.
I’d predict operating systems that at least start presenting larger computer screens, but even that has practical limits. Once it’s wide enough, it would require you to physically turn your head to be able to see things. Right now you can just hit a switch workspace or show overview keybinding for that kind of thing, which is faster. Working while looking to the side is not ergonomic, and it would be hard to get the OS to consistently put stuff at the sides that’s occasionally worth looking at but not ever worth looking at for long enough to get uncomfortable. Caveat: Turning your body to look around at different stuff would probably be healthy, and intuitive, so we might hope for some hip new VR-optimized standing desks with keyboards that can be yawed around to different angles. Optimally, keyboards would be mounted on a fairly long robot arm that lets you just move and position it in 3d space anywhere in a room. Still seems kinda gimicky on net but who knows, might be nice.
I expect it humorlessly. In a lot of ways, computer screens can’t be improved upon that much:
The third dimension is unlikely to turn out to be useful when most of the work we do is already neglecting to use the color dimensions. Hopefully it’ll be useful to people who work with 3d objects (3d modellers) though.
I’d predict operating systems that at least start presenting larger computer screens, but even that has practical limits. Once it’s wide enough, it would require you to physically turn your head to be able to see things. Right now you can just hit a switch workspace or show overview keybinding for that kind of thing, which is faster. Working while looking to the side is not ergonomic, and it would be hard to get the OS to consistently put stuff at the sides that’s occasionally worth looking at but not ever worth looking at for long enough to get uncomfortable.
Caveat: Turning your body to look around at different stuff would probably be healthy, and intuitive, so we might hope for some hip new VR-optimized standing desks with keyboards that can be yawed around to different angles. Optimally, keyboards would be mounted on a fairly long robot arm that lets you just move and position it in 3d space anywhere in a room.
Still seems kinda gimicky on net but who knows, might be nice.