Leap Text Editor, 2019: A writing system powered by speech recognition and hand tracking for hand-pose detection. One issue with VR, and a stationary computing context is the loss of the keyboard – for both typing and for hotkeys. By encoding functionality in specific hand poses – and providing feedback about pose-distance, a system teaches… Continue reading Leap Text Editor
Author: Frode Hegland
Timeline VR
Timeline VR, 2019: A timeline-centered view of Wikipedia, allowing users to place multiple timelines next to one another. Useful in a similar way to books like Timetables of History, but with the ability to compose wider sets of data see longer patterns than can be shown on a single page. In VR: https://zachernuk.neocities.org/timeline-vr/
Word Reality
Word Reality, 2017: A first attempt at a space for creating and assembling information. I wanted to explore what breaking the contents of a page apart might allow the different pieces to mean, and how we might relate to the collection of information that ultimately constitutes a document if we aren’t always staring at a… Continue reading Word Reality
Initial VR for FTL
Article with thoughts on starting this Lab
Tr : 4 Feb 2022
Video: https://youtu.be/ljHdq42Vv-g Chat Log: https://futuretextlab.info/2022/02/05/tr-4-feb-2022/ Mark Anderson : I just seen your email, I will the bit that I’m confused, I know. You know, it’s all what you’re used to, but the thing I’m still trying to wrap my head around is what what things are called, because the word press basically is personal blogging… Continue reading Tr : 4 Feb 2022
Chat : 4 Feb 2022
Video and transcript: https://futuretextlab.info/2022/02/05/tr-4-jan-2022/ 16:07:05 From Peter Wasilko : Good Morning! Looking sharp, Frode!16:07:34 From Frode Hegland : Morning Peter16:09:15 From Mark Anderson : https://twitter.com/Mappletons/status/148813123408987340816:12:39 From Peter Wasilko : https://blockprotocol.org16:13:28 From Frode Hegland : Hi Brandel16:13:57 From Brandel Zachernuk : Hi Frode!16:15:00 From Frode Hegland : We are talking a bit on https://twitter.com/Mappletons/status/1488131234089873408 Brande;16:16:12 From… Continue reading Chat : 4 Feb 2022
Vinton G. Cerf
Co-inventor of the Internet, VP and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. Chairman of the Marconi Society. Former executive at MCI, the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and member of the Faculty of Stanford… Continue reading Vinton G. Cerf
Frode Hegland
Director of the Future Text Lab (FTL) and The Augmented Text Company where he designed the macOS Author word processor, Reader PDF viewer and the Liquid text interaction tool. Editor of the ‘The Future of Text’ series of books and Journal (which is be the basis of future ‘The Future of Text’ volumes). Hosts ‘The… Continue reading Frode Hegland
Apple Focus & Polish
Worth a quick read I think : https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/01/12/apple-is-late-to-ar-but-its-going-to-succeed-the-way-it-always-does
Game Engines
Game engines driving VR: https://www.forbes.com/sites/timbajarin/2022/02/01/what-will-be-a-foundational-technology-for-creating-metaverse-apps/?fbclid=IwAR0woZQ0gbR3e94MkvuuI5jTI39ziYuIvR1B34WxlmRr4WfBlrYvaBctlA0&sh=4940a13d3f78