In 2025 we are looking at authorship in XR with a focus on the process of an academic user constructing a spatial arrangements of knowledge.
An important aspect of this work is that the user can set the parameters of many of the aspects of the experience. It is also important for the user to be able to import their own information and export it for later re-use.
Annotated Bibliography
The Live XR experience to access when you are in your VR/AR/XR headset, as presented at ACM Hypertext ’25: Annotated Bibliography. Note that you pinch with your right hand to select and move, and with your left hand to execute commands.
Knowledge Space
Minimalist Thinking Space | Knowledge Space
Further Knowledge Space XR Experiences for Quest, Vision Pro and other headsets, with video previews.
Spatial File Browser allows you to view the directory of your computer in XR, with the directory structure made visible and interactive.
Presentations
We encourage you to have a look at the state of the work:
1st Quarter Presentation
of the work as of end of March 2025
(specific interactions)
2nd Quarter (midway) Presentation
of the work as of June 2025
Integration
If you are a developer or if you use Author, developed by one of our Principal Investigators as a separate project, and you want to integrate with the Knowledge Space, please get in touch. If you come here via Author and want to experiment with the XR uploading, this is the URL you need to append in the XR Export:
https://companion.benetou.fr/index.html?username=q2_visualmetaexport_map_via_wordpress&showfile=
Self Hosting for Document Access
You can host your own files on your own computer for access in XR using Copy Party (a WebDav server). You will first need to download the Python script ‘copyparty-sfx.py’ to your downloads folder from:
github.com/9001/copyparty/releases/latest/download/copyparty-sfx.py
Once downloaded you will need to launch your Terminal and type the following, where [Enter] means you should hit the enter key:
cd Downloads [Enter] (‘change directory’ to change to the Downloads folder)
ls *py [Enter] (optional command to ‘list’ files with ‘py’)
chmod +x copyparty-sfx.py [Enter] (change modes to make it an executable file)
./copyparty-sfx.py [Enter] (to run the executable file)
You should now see something like this, where you can use your own mobile to use the QR code to view the files (only if your computer and phone are on the same Wifi):
You can now open the following URL in your browser and note that (127.0.0.1) means it refers to your current computer, or ‘local host’:
Note that permissions on different operating systems will differ. Apple’s Safari may require additional steps.
You may choose to install ngrok to simplify this process with permissions from: https://ngrok.com
Walkthroughs
We are also recording in-person walkthrough demo sessions with academics to align with their needs for authoring in XR, which are available to view:
Our specific case is for the user to produce an ‘article’/‘volume’ for the upcoming ‘The Future of Text 6’ presented in a spatial manner. This should include sources from previous volumes and select ACM Hypertext papers in a process of creating an academic annotated bibliography, not simply plain text. We maintain a DevLog to track work after the 1st Quarter Presentation.
This code is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
