I'm excited about the possibility of a genuinely hand held, pocket sized device that I can hook up to behave like a full desktop.
It's a format that has been tried before but the power/price ratio has never been favourable - this feels like the first real chance for it to work.
Tires becoming useless after 15 laps is probably the better analogy.
If your travelling there won't be a screen available unless you lug one around. In which case you might as well carry a laptop.
At home and work you probably have a computer.
I think it is an interesting concept but I don't quite see the practical use. Unless it had like a stand and a projector or something.
Currently I work from two fixed locations and also from home. If I can just have a fixed screen, keyboard and mouse there and take this around with all my current working stack ready to go that'd be ace!
That's how we do it at my company. Each workstation is just a dock, screens, and mouse and keyboard. You can move around anywhere really easily.
I think you'd be surprised at the uptake of this kind of device in the corporate world if it was marketed correctly.
Honestly, I'd probably fund this project right now if they had a tablet or notebook docking accessory in the plan.
Our code runs fairly well on the Nexus 4 today, and through much dogfooding, we've learned that RAM is the biggest limiting factor in performance. So when (if?!) Edge ships with 4GB of RAM, the desktop mode will fly.
Interface with google glass or use a pico laser projector. MYO or one of the myriad one-handed keyboards (eg Twiddler, Kee4, CyKey) for input. It's not going to be easy at first but I'm not keen on spending the rest of my life sitting down in a stuffy office.
A bluetooth keyboard + HDMI cable can fit in my pocket.
EDIT: And part of the point is for this to eventually replace your desktops too, so you don't need to have everything spread out over multiple computers.
Some people just want a tiny computer for a bit of email, a bit of social media and some cat videos, with the occasional office document creation and reading.
BYOD could really use something like this.
Additionally resolution just isn't there yet. They're currently testing better screens for the consumer version but its all a matter of what they can source (as with the dev kit they had to move from a 5in to 7in screen due to sourcing problems).
Finally, before I received mine I had thought about using it similarly to how you are. However I've come to realize that strapping a TV to you face changes up the interaction enough that you sometime have to rethink fundamental design concepts about the UI.
Random Rift tidbit: The people behind the [Minecrift](https://github.com/mabrowning/minecrift) are doing some awesome work and its development is a great example of people learning how to adapt a game to VR. Plus the ascetics of minecraft makes the pixelation of the Rift less noticeable.
I have docking stations for my Thinkpad. I also have my Nexus phone in my pocket.
What I want is a pocket-sized device which has multiple docking stations for various purposes:
0. Baseline phone for being a phone or small computing tasks. 1. Tablet for couch-surfing or communal content sharing. 2. Laptop for on the go larger computing tasks. 3. Desktop for long work sessions.
It would be great if stages 2 and 3 could also include additional computing, graphics and memory resources.