Forget Miracast and Wi-Di: Google wants to transform any web-connected screen into a public display for your smartphone or tablet. The Google Research blog recently published information about Open Project (as in "projection") screen-sharing technology. Open Project relies on your Android device's camera and a little server-side magic to bring your smartphone apps to the big screen.
Open Project can also take multi-user touch interaction if you're using a touch-enabled display. Just imagine: Instead of trying to figure out level 90 of Candy Crush Saga alone on your Galaxy S4, you could let all your friends try to pass the level using a 26-inch display.
That's the hope anyway. From the looks of it, Open Project is not as robust as Apple's AirPlay mirroring, but remember that Open Project is in its infancy and is still only a research project at this point. That also means there's no guarantee Google will continue developing Open Project into an actual Android feature.
Nevertheless, the concept is interesting, so let's take a look.
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