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The goal is to produce a single JSON file that merges glossary definitions, citations, and spatial layouts into one readable structure. The glossary and citations form a shared pool of nodes. Multiple named layouts can arrange those same nodes in different spatial configurations. Both layouts and citations can be called from body text using inline… Continue reading Spatial Knowledge Minimalist Format

AI: Summary The 23 February 2026 session of the Future Text Lab brought together Frode Hegland, Tom Haymes, Peter Dimitrios, Ken Perlin, Astral_Druid, and Rob Swigart (via chat) for a wide-ranging conversation centered on how text, citations, and knowledge structures can be meaningfully represented and interacted with in spatial and extended reality environments. The session… Continue reading 23 Feb 2026

This month’s project explores spatial authoring and XR-based knowledge environments. We use as a our example to spark dialog the spatial map in Author for visionOS. Topics will include interactions for choosing what to select, what to view, how to arrange, how to show and hide and so on. Further discussions are expected to include… Continue reading February Project

Introduction to the March Project of how a Conference could be presented in XR. It is fair to say that XR is a ‘tool looking for an application’. This month we are looking at what might be useful in XR to orient oneself in a Conference, perhaps with scheduling and with the academic papers being… Continue reading March 2 2026

What can a Conference Timeline look like and feel like in XR? Included would be a Calendar that turns into a Diary (information added once events happen), as well as papers being made available, at least in abstract form. We will consider ACM Hypertext ’26 as the case study and we will use Author for… Continue reading March Project

For today’s meeting: If we have free-flowing text documents in XR (not PDF) and the documents are self contained (not HTML), with useable visual and semantic markup (ePub maybe), what views and interactions might be useful? As a reminder of my mentors: Doug’s work, to my memory, was mostly about addressing and jumping. He used… Continue reading 16 Feb 2026

AI: Summary The session ranged across the lived experience of working with text and knowledge artifacts in XR, the challenge of representing time in spatial environments, the emerging gestural grammar of visionOS interactions, and the broader socioeconomic responsibilities that come with building new knowledge tools. Participants debated how color, scale, and depth might encode temporal information, explored… Continue reading 9 Feb 2026

The session explored spatial authoring and XR-based knowledge environments, with Frode demonstrating a 3D knowledge map prototype derived from meeting transcripts and AI-generated glossaries, prompting a wide-ranging discussion about gestures, selection models, timelines, writing practices, and how immersive systems might augment human thinking rather than replace it. AI: Main Topic The primary focus was Frode’s… Continue reading 2 February 2026

Screens taught us how to freeze a thoughtInk and pixels, lines on paper,Five thousand years of flat replies.–- Now machines can speak our tongueWrite our laws before we’ve begunInfluence where we turn and what we see.The question humming underneathIs who is shaping what we believe. Pre-ChorusWe’re not afraid of minds made fastBut we won’t let… Continue reading ‘We will change what text is’ Lyrics

Hi all, January’s ‘Journal’ entry is now up, including summaries, as well as links and full transcripts: https://futuretextlab.info/2026/01/27/january-2026/ • TEXT & AI Astral posted a very important video yesterday “Yuval Noah Harari Warns AI Will Take Over Language, Law, and Power at WEF” and while we are not fully shunning AI in our work, this… Continue reading Jan/Feb Update