Debrief of last week’s ACM Hypertext Conference testing. AI: Summary This meeting was primarily a debrief session following Mark Anderson and Dene Grigar’s successful user testing of their XR knowledge environment at the ACM Hypertext Conference in Chicago. They tested 14 participants over several days, gathering valuable feedback about user interactions with their spatial hypertext… Continue reading 22 Sept : ACM Hypertext Annotated Bibliography Debrief
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15 September: Spatial Thought
Themed discussion with a presentation by Frode Hegland, who also moderates today. AI: Summary This meeting focused on spatial thinking in XR environments, specifically addressing how to manage and manipulate knowledge objects in three-dimensional space. Frode Hegland presented a framework distinguishing between knowledge objects (useful in themselves) and volumes (collections that can be broken down… Continue reading 15 September: Spatial Thought
8 Sept : Tess Rafferty
A professional writer, television producer and avid reader, Tess will share her vision for how she wants to interact with VR as a writer, reader and viewer. Frode Hegland, Dene Grigar, Tess Rafferty, Tom Haymes, Ken Perlin, Brandel Zachernuk, Mark Anderson, Rob Swigart, Peter Wasilko, Jonathan Finn, Fabien Benetou, Ayaskant Panigrahi, Jimmy Sixdof AI: Summary… Continue reading 8 Sept : Tess Rafferty
1 September : Patrick Lichty
AI: Summary This Future of Text meeting on September 1, 2025, focused on Patrick Lichty’s presentation about virtual narratology and spatial information structures in XR environments. Patrick then delivered an extensive presentation tracing his work from early hypertext experiments in the 1990s through contemporary XR projects, exploring concepts like spatial text, embodied cognition, and haptic… Continue reading 1 September : Patrick Lichty
25 August
AI: Summary This was a Future of Text meeting focused on discussing what comes next after the current Sloan Foundation funded project exploring text in XR environments. The meeting featured presentations on potential applications of VR for writers and entertainment, discussions of philosophical commentary systems, mixed reality teaching tools, and collaborative document management. Key themes included the need for better tools for… Continue reading 25 August
Adam text in space
Adam’s experiment on text in space or text as HUD. https://t.co/FSxFw7YYOM
Chat : 7 Nov 2022
Video: https://youtu.be/7qT6zHYnhM0 16:22:56 From Peter Wasilko : Sentence en route to your email, Frode!16:24:38 From Peter Wasilko : !! https://glitch.com/webxr Formerly Fog Creek Software, Glitch offers a cloud based development environment that is making a push to host WebXR projects. We might want to play with its free tier.16:27:17 From Peter Wasilko : @Bob, any… Continue reading Chat : 7 Nov 2022
Adam Solar Test
https://immersive-web.github.io/webxr-samples/anchors.html
24 October 2022
16:27:24 From Peter Wasilko : https://about.meta.com/realitylabs/projectaria/16:32:51 From Frode Hegland : https://futuretextlab.info/2022/10/24/initial-book/16:38:45 From Peter Wasilko : https://atap.google.com/soli/16:50:27 From Frode Hegland : on the point of peripherals and pens: https://youtu.be/xy-IeVgoEpY17:01:38 From Peter Wasilko : https://deck-24abcd.netlify.app17:33:37 From Peter Wasilko : https://p5js.org/reference/#/p5/perspective17:36:34 From Peter Wasilko : https://cifs.dk/news/watch-our-latest-futures-seminar/17:50:15 From Mark Anderson : Are there RTF/RTFD → HTML tools?17:52:27 From Peter… Continue reading 24 October 2022
Initial Book
The story so far. Or: How I’d prefer we go about this first book. The story so far is a user opening up the PDF version of The Future of Text book Volume 3, in a regular PDF reader and there is a link to open the book in VR/AR (I think I’ll just refer… Continue reading Initial Book