New Google APIs: Point your phone at a telly like a streaming hose of vid Google has mashed the Processing graphics language into its Cast software, letting visual artists and others with a bent for graphics point their creations at the nearest big-screen TV. The project even seems to hint at a possible games angle: an Android device like a mobile phone can be used as a controller of the displayed …
"Google has mashed the Processing graphics language into its Cast software"
Mashed? Oh, right, thats Millennial speak for "added".
"but until now, the language lacked remote display capability."
Whats this got to do with the language, surely thats the job of the OS/Graphics layer? Oh wait, the kids haven't yet rediscovered transparent graphics networking as developed for X windows in the 1980s. Oh well, give them time. No doubt it'll be the Hot New Thing(tm) in 5 years time.
People keep reimplementing stuff that already exists on the new abstraction layer, because they don't understand how the old one works…
Oh, and everybody is trying to have all features, which duplicates everything. If I want to watch a YouTube video on my TV, I can use the YouTube app of the set-top box, I can cast it to the A/V receiver, or I can cast it directly to the TV. Without counting the different ways I can surf the web on my TV, then go to youtube.com.
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