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April Project : Beyond Reading & Writing in XR. Introduction to where we are going, based on January and February dialog as well as further texts written by Frode Hegland in support of the spatial thinking work being done, co-written with Claude.ai which has access to all transcripts. We have spent decades naming what we… Continue reading April 6th 2026

Conclusion & Look forward We will review some of our thinking and dialog over the month and look forward to where we will go in April.

VERSE 1 — Female Spatial knowledge maps in Vision Pro — that’s where we began, Frode built a tool in Author where you walk through what you scan. Select a concept, find its links, distribute it in space, Not reading, not just writing — it’s a whole different place. Tom photographed his bookshelves, six-fifty titles strong, Fed them into Claude and Gemini, been… Continue reading 23 March 2026 Lyrics

Tom Haymes: Good afternoon. You’re miming? Frode Hegland: It’s still kind of a boxy sound, isn’t it? Tom Haymes: Are you getting a little bit of room echo? Frode Hegland: Let me try this microphone. Tom Haymes: I think there’s a setting on Zoom in the audio. It’s pretty sophisticated. That will take care of… Continue reading 23 March 2026 — Clean Transcript

Themes and Read & Write? We are mostly focusing on the space of knowledge and what that might mean. On comprehension and XR The Greek episteme means literally overstand — to stand above and survey. The Old English understandan means to stand among. In XR we can build environments where you both simultaneously. You can zoom out to the overview — the bird’s… Continue reading March 23rd ’26

We will be taking about the Movement of Knowledge, particularly in and out of XR. AI: Summary This session of the Future Text Lab community centered on what host Frode Hegland called the “movement of knowledge” — the challenge of transporting and reshaping personal and scholarly knowledge from traditional 2D computing environments into XR. Frode demonstrated a… Continue reading March 16th

Inspired by https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/ this is the next proposed model: Overview This document specifies an annotation system for macOS and XR in which annotations and definitions are independent knowledge objects stored in a shared BibTeX-compatible ledger file. The system serves two user actions: Both actions produce entries in the same ledger. Both are viewable in the… Continue reading Unified Annotations Infrastructure (w3C shaped)

[Verse 1]Before the press, before the page was cheapA monk drew breath and pressed his reedInto the vellum’s edge, not to correctBut to continue thinking where the author stoppedA conversation opened in the marginsThe text said this, the reader answered but what about…And in that slender gutter between columnsThe first annotation learned to breathe [Verse… Continue reading “What the Margins Knew” Lyrics

We will look at Conference Dialog in XR and how we can think of Annotations as Knowledge Objects along the lines of Citations, Quotes and other explicit data in an academic knowledge space. Imagine not only underlining when you read, but actively building a structure of the knowledge. Something which you can usefully access and… Continue reading March 9th

Annotations are essentially writings about other writings. And this is important. If we abstract it, we could think of a paper being a collection of annotations. Interaction with Annotation To Review single document with Annotations. For this the user will access the document and choose to view annotations in situ or separately, linearly, mapped or… Continue reading Annotations