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Co-authored by Frode Hegland and Clause.ai based on the first 3 months transcripts, on what working in XR might be. The Long Freeze To understand what is new, we have to understand what we have been living with. Writing changed our species by freezing thought — fixing it outside the human body so it could persist across… Continue reading Beyond Reading & Writing

[VERSE 1 — MALE] They’ve been saying text is dying since the day the web was born Then AI arrived and everyone is reading more than before So the question isn’t whether text survives the spatial age The question’s how you think with it — how you build the page Frode Hegland’s in Shanghai, drafting… Continue reading 30 March Lyrics

April Project : Beyond Reading & Writing in XR. Working in XR is not really reading or writing in the traditional sense, it is ‘born digital’ in an entirely new dimension. We look at addressing what this might mean.  A brief introduction based on 2026 session transcripts so far: Beyond Reading & Writing. We have… Continue reading April 6th 2026

AI: Summary This session brought together the Future Text Lab community to examine the cognitive science underpinning spatial text interfaces and to develop a practical design philosophy for combining traditional framed displays with XR nodal environments — specifically through Apple Vision Pro and the in-development Author application. The discussion moved from reading science and dual visual processing through to hands-on questions of what… Continue reading 30 March 2026

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