There's an opportunity to break out of the LRUD-driven user interfaces and input modality.
Only issue is all the TV apps that will run on this virtual smart TV assume LRUD, so I don't have high hopes for a transcendent advancement in usability. Not even Apple, who introduced a touch remote, control the Apple TV (hardware) and the Apple TV app attempted to supersede LRUD.
LG's pointer-based input devices (you can think of it as a mouse) have been with us for many years now, but hasn't caught on with more device manufacturers.
Some people hold out hope for Voice UI, but it has a number of downsides that make it worse than LRUD.
Once you rethink the vending machine interface, maybe a different modality reveals it self.
andsoitis•2h ago
Only issue is all the TV apps that will run on this virtual smart TV assume LRUD, so I don't have high hopes for a transcendent advancement in usability. Not even Apple, who introduced a touch remote, control the Apple TV (hardware) and the Apple TV app attempted to supersede LRUD.
LG's pointer-based input devices (you can think of it as a mouse) have been with us for many years now, but hasn't caught on with more device manufacturers.
Some people hold out hope for Voice UI, but it has a number of downsides that make it worse than LRUD.
Once you rethink the vending machine interface, maybe a different modality reveals it self.