NVIDIA has spent a lot of energy on its mobile graphics platforms and then we’re not talking exclusively about graphics circuit for laptops but also its work with chips for even smaller handheld devices. NVIDIA has now announced one part of this and it is a mobile platform called NVIDIA Preface. The platform will, among others, be used with Microsoft’s Windows SideShow, which we’ve reported about at a couple of occasions earlier on. A technology that makes it possible to control the functions of a laptop through an external display. With these external displays NVIDIA Preface will do most of the work, but it’s far from the only area of use.
“Windows SideShow enables notebook or PC users to access their data from a secondary display/keypad such as the NVIDIA Preface platform embedded in a notebook lid or keyboard. The NVIDIA Preface platform recently extended that functionality with support for Bluetooth wireless technology. The combination of wireless mobility and a compact, full-color display makes the NVIDIA Preface platform ideal for integration into next-generation remote control devices.”
We have specifically taken a shine to the NVIDIA Media Center Remote concept, which simply means that it has integrated a display in an MCE remote control and in that way make it possible to access a lot of the material without having to turn it on. Also here it’s SideShow making this possible and with a Bluetooth connection there will not be a problem controlling the computer from other rooms. We can see a great potential of both Windows SideShow and NVIDIA’s Preface platform and we’re eager to see when the first products appear on the market, we’re especially waiting for other manufacturers to adapt the MCE remote control concept.
