Future Text Lab
The Future Text Lab is a community of coders, theorists, artists and general people interested in the future of text, particularly in XR (VR/AR) for learning, thinking and communicating. We are not building a product, we are building experiments to experience potential to better understand work in XR. We are building what we call a ‘Knowledge Space’ in XR.
Join The Dialog
- Open Office Join us any Monday for general discussions as well as Themed Discussions and Presentations: Record & Schedule
- Books We publish a series of Books and Journal.
- Symposium We have been hosting the annual Future of Text Symposium, which is primarily an in-person event, for over a decade. Below are a few photographs from the most recent symposium.
Try The XR Experiences
If you have access to a VR/AR headset please feel free to try the experiences we are building. For year 1 (2024), we worked on Reading in XR and we are now working on Authorship in XR, of which we also have a Developer Log:
Meet the People
The Future of Text Lab Team is Brandel Zachernuk, Mark Anderson, Peter Wasilko & Rob Swigart, with Lead-PI Dene Grigar & Co-PI Frode Hegland, prototypist Fabien Benetou, the Advisory Board and wider community. This work is in support of The Future of Text Initiative.
If you are interested in getting involved by joining the weekly meetings or the symposium, please get in touch. We also have a basic Glossary of some of the terms we use.
This work is part funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Our overriding goal is to inspire & enable powerfully useful XR workspaces & workflows. We hope you will find some of this inspiring to think a little deeper about what working in a fully immersive environment can be.