Apple By Russell Holly Mar. 24, 2014 3:07 pm
While the most common use for a Chromecast today is to act as a simple streaming media player with a smartphone, tablet, or PC as a controller, the project was destined for multi-user interaction. Google’s latest Chrome Experiment helps paint a picture detailing what the little HDMI dongle is truly capable of.
Sure, you can fire up Netflix or HBO Go on your Chromecast and watch something, and you can even let friends join you in a silly YouTube sharing party or make your entertainment center the focal point of your audio library, but that is far from all this thing can do. As was recently demonstrated by the developer behind Dehumanize Your Friends, Chromecast usage can be a lot more interactive with a little more work. To demonstrate a less game-oriented example of this, Google has launched a Chrome Experiment called Photowall for Chromecast.
Editing photos on your smartphone or tablet has become incredibly common, but it’s almost always a one person task. Photowall for Chromecast lets you share the photo you are editing to your Chromecast so it sits on your TV like a digital canvas. From there, anyone else who has the Photowall app can connect and join you in editing the image and make it a group effort. Like most Chrome Experiments it’s more for fun than for productivity, but the concept can be applied to so many other concepts that it’s easy to see how multiple people with smartphones and tablets using a Chromecast together could catch on.
Photowall for Chromecast is available for iOS and Android, and it works well for phones and tablets alike. You can also bring your PC browser along for the party if you like. The app doesn’t do a whole lot aside from letting you play with silly pictures for now, but it sits as a shining example of what collaboration through your television will be like.
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Sure, you can fire up Netflix or HBO Go on your Chromecast and watch something, and you can even let friends join you in a silly YouTube sharing party or make your entertainment center the focal point of your audio library, but that is far from all this thing can do. As was recently demonstrated by the developer behind Dehumanize Your Friends, Chromecast usage can be a lot more interactive with a little more work. To demonstrate a less game-oriented example of this, Google has launched a Chrome Experiment called Photowall for Chromecast.
Editing photos on your smartphone or tablet has become incredibly common, but it’s almost always a one person task. Photowall for Chromecast lets you share the photo you are editing to your Chromecast so it sits on your TV like a digital canvas. From there, anyone else who has the Photowall app can connect and join you in editing the image and make it a group effort. Like most Chrome Experiments it’s more for fun than for productivity, but the concept can be applied to so many other concepts that it’s easy to see how multiple people with smartphones and tablets using a Chromecast together could catch on.
Photowall for Chromecast is available for iOS and Android, and it works well for phones and tablets alike. You can also bring your PC browser along for the party if you like. The app doesn’t do a whole lot aside from letting you play with silly pictures for now, but it sits as a shining example of what collaboration through your television will be like.
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