Screens blend with reality thanks to Sightful’s optics, hardware and software. Sightful is very open about the fact that Spacetop is aimed at what it calls “web-forward” users. Early adopters will be screened (no pun) to make sure they’re “suitable.” ![]() It will be supplying the first 1,000 to customers in the US only some time next month, priced at $2,000. Those keen to get their hands on one have been applying in recent weeks, since the company emerged from stealth mode. So far there are only about 50 Spacetops in existence. “So when someone asks me to review a document I just open it and put it on the right side. Sign up for our free weekly newsletter Subscribe Tamir Berliner, Sightful’s CEO, and Tomer Kahan, its COO, working on the Spacetop. ![]() “I have everything that generates actions on the left – email, Slack, WhatsApp, Discord, LinkedIn – and on the right side, I have the tasks that I was asked to accomplish. “I think every month I’m improving by 20 percent,” he says, as he considers how much more productively he works with a dozen screens all open at the same time. One day he forgot his laptop, found himself flying solo, and says he’s never looked back. Having said that, he accepts it can take a while to get used to.īerliner says he carried a standard laptop until recently, as well as his Spacetop, while he was getting to used to working with it. He says Spacetop makes for far greater efficiency, because you can keep all your applications open, instead of constantly switching between them, and failing to find the thing you want. It’s not like 2010 when you would open Microsoft Word and just write one document for a couple of hours.” “Everything we do requires multiple apps. “Just look at how many applications you have open on your laptop,” he says. Most laptops today look and behave more or less as they did 20 years ago, says Tamir Berliner, the company’s CEO. Sightful, a Tel Aviv-based startup, launched Spacetop last month, describing it as a “100-inch laptop that fits in your backpack.” Augmented reality glasses allow the user to see multiple screens, and their surroundings at the same time. If you’re familiar with a standard laptop, all you need to know is how to operate the two extra keys that manage what you see. I can toggle between the individual screens, re-size and re-position them at will, zoom in and out.Īnd all of this with 20 seconds of training. But I can also see the office around me, as virtual world blends with reality. To see the screens I’m wearing what looks a heavy pair of sunglasses that are wired to the keyboard.Īs I turn my head, I can see them floating like a curved wall in the air. Spacetop likes a standard laptop, without a screen. Spacetop, billed as the world’s first augmented reality laptop, looks like the keyboard to a standard 13-inch laptop, minus the 13-inch screen.
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