A big surprise to me using the Vision Pro over the year was first of all how good the visual quality is and then when the Mac to Vision mirroring was improved, how little–if any–latency there is when working on my Mac in XR. This is not something I do often since I love the… Continue reading Posture in XR
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Interactions & Interfaces
Components of Environment. The environment will be composed of: Initial Environment. Visually the environment is imagined as, for the initial use before customizing the environment, a rectangular desk overlaid the user’s physical desk (brief alignment process with guide to make it correct on first use), with a basic flat grey background, basic floor and various… Continue reading Interactions & Interfaces
Multi-View Desk
The Design Challenges : tldr Design challenges for working in XR with text includes use of space, legibility and physical affordances. The suggestion made here is therefore to provide a view of text in space for a Map type view with a plain background and to use the physical desk in XR, particularly for a… Continue reading Multi-View Desk
Text in Space
An initial question we need to address, if not fully answer, is how to show text in space. We talk about Knowledge Objects in Volumes but do we want to see text in boxes? Conceptually this is at least partly how we see the knowledge. As Mark Anderson posted in Slack, there are many types… Continue reading Text in Space
Bob Horn Notes Jan 2025
Bob Horn’s notes regarding his Mapping Hypertext Presentation. Frontier for the group: understanding that for communicating to others the basic unit to start with is the sentence…the complete declarative sentence. This is what is described in Chapter 3 of Mapping Hypertext as structured writing, and information mapping. Understanding that any sentence that purports to describe something, an object or… Continue reading Bob Horn Notes Jan 2025
Cognitive Context AI
In order to really get AI to support intellectual augmentation and not simply think on behalf of the user, it will be necessary to work on what extraction and/or analysis the AI should perform when the user looks at a paper to give the them an Overview, particularly when reading something outside of their field.… Continue reading Cognitive Context AI
Extraction & Annotation
Summary The question of what happens to text lifted from a document has been a big issue for me and how it should be treated and stored. I now see a simple approach where we have a ‘Lift’ command which simply lifts text into space (on desktop and in XR) and it is temporary (stored… Continue reading Extraction & Annotation
Emphasize
I personally have an issue reading long, grey columns of text, such as this from ACM Hypertext. Compare it to the very first substantial printed document, the Gutenberg Bible–which even includes red highlights of key letters–and it becomes quite sterile: The perspective is that not all academic papers are worth reading every word of so… Continue reading Emphasize
Journal
Welcome to the Future Text Lab Journal, started January 2025.