Author: Frode Hegland

Distance-Independent Millimeters

A DMM is 1 millimeter viewed at 1 meter away. It’s an angular unit that follows a MM into the distance. “I recently watched a great talk by the Google Daydream team about designing screen interfaces for VR. Adam Glazier and Chris McKenzie dove into some of the challenges and pitfalls around creating two-dimensional screens within the VR space. Their team needed… Continue reading Distance-Independent Millimeters

Tr : 7 Jan 2022

Video: https://youtu.be/J9Ujjk89OgQ Chat Log: https://futuretextlab.info/2022/02/08/chat-7-feb-2022/ Mark Anderson: Hello. Brandel Zachernuk : Early. Mark Anderson: Well, let me just oh, Frode Hegland: A few things, so. Mark Anderson: Well. I was a bit washed. Cameras are a bit washed out lighting right in here. Frode Hegland: Well, I can’t actually hear you. Mark Anderson: You’re sorry.… Continue reading Tr : 7 Jan 2022

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Chat : 7 Feb 2022

Video and transcript: https://futuretextlab.info/2022/02/08/tr-7-jan-2022-2/ 16:20:41 From Mark Anderson : ‘must’ as in ‘must name’ is effectively modal (i.e. hard stop until resolved), which comes with some cognitive load.16:30:19 From Peter Wasilko : @Brandel, if you have any references to 3-D layout system, we might want to add them as a resource on the website.16:31:12 From… Continue reading Chat : 7 Feb 2022

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Reusable ‘bits’ : Lists and Constellations

Another think piece, where the only real point is for a user to give a bullet list a name in a document and have this be added to Visual-Meta on export, so that it becomes available externally, same as headings and glossary etc.

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Brandel Zachernuk

Brandel explores the expressive opportunities for immersive computing in what may appear to be the most mundane use case – reading and writing – in order to provide the greatest benefit to computing and the world. He strives to apply principles of modern cognitive science to system design, particularly Embodied Cognition and Extended Mind Theory. … Continue reading Brandel Zachernuk

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Graph Paper

Graph Paper, 2021: A demonstration of the nuance of control available through VR – not just from the high-dimensional control afforded by controllers or hands, but of the nuance of being able to move your head view to gain a better understanding of depth. 

Deep Reader

Deep Reader – Understanding Media, 2021: An exploration of how a reading environment might simply throw away a book’s features and allow readers to focus on the content in a large-format context for something more like a meditative experience than one focused on reading speed, for example. You can read the whole book that way,… Continue reading Deep Reader

Gutenberg generator

Gutenberg generator, 2021: A page that consumes Project Gutenberg text files and creates an interactable 3D representation, with appropriate book cover and size. The plausible page-turning and opportunity for persistent visual landmarks help make it clear that while eBooks are of great benefit for the storage and sharing of documents, the human experience of making… Continue reading Gutenberg generator