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Figure & Ground in Review AI: Summary This session carried the month’s figure-and-ground theme into a concrete new use case, prompted by a first-time participant from the world of corporate law: the headset as a space for contested negotiation and dispute resolution. The working premise, carried over from the previous week, is that what distinguishes… Continue reading 29 June ’26

AI: Summary This session continued the month’s theme of figure and ground applied to reading and thinking in XR: when potentially every digital document is available at once, how do we decide what to bring forward and what to leave as background? Using a long, heavily structured online essay as a shared test case, the group worked across… Continue reading 15 June 2026

Further explorations into figure and ground. AI: Summary This session of the Future Text Lab continued the month’s theme of figure and ground — foreground and background — by asking how, in XR and spatial computing, a person decides what to bring forward to work on and what to leave in the periphery when potentially every digital… Continue reading 15 June 2026

Naming & Figure & GroundAI: Summary This wide-ranging session, held in the hours before Apple‘s Worldwide Developer Conference, circled around a single underlying question: what is the right relationship between a person, their knowledge, and a designed space — physical or in XR. Conversation moved fluidly between flow states and active engagement, the perceptual default of the human… Continue reading 8 June ’26

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Human reviewed Claude summary of Meeting between Mark Anderson and Frode Hegland: Document formats & ACM publishing The conversation opened on pragmatism around scholarly formats. Frode noted that having Author export EPUB Origami Text is a nice luxury but not submittable to ACM, which runs on TAPS and uses JATS. He emailed Wayne (ACM publishing’s… Continue reading 29 May 2026

Figure & Ground : Thought & Documents in Space We will look further into Spatial Thought. AI: Summary This session, framed around the theme of “figure and ground” (document versus workspace), explored how authoring in spatial computing should handle the vast surrounding context — references, notes, citations, and AI-generated material — that informs a piece… Continue reading 1st of June 2026

Long Documents in XR AI Summary: This session centred on the evolving spatial interface of Author for visionOS, using Douglas Engelbart’s 1962 paper as a large-scale test document. The conversation moved from concrete design questions — how section cards should look, how selection states should be rendered, how visual differentiation by category or search could work in an… Continue reading 25 May 2026

AI: Summary This session ranged across the current state of Author for visionOS, the creative workflow behind AI-generated video advertising, the long-running format debate between EPUB and YAML as document containers, the role of stand-off markup for layered annotation, and a broader philosophical thread about whether AI is dissolving the boundaries between file formats, applications, and the very act of writing itself.… Continue reading 18 May 2026