December 16th 2024

Participants: Frode Hegland, Dene Grigar, Fabien Benetou, Peter Wasilko, Rob Swigart, Andrew Thompson, Karl Arthur Smink, Brandel Zachernuk AI: Public Meeting Summary Report Year 2 Planning & Spatial LearningDiscussion of administrative changes for Year 2 of the Future of Text project, including new meeting times and format changes. Introduction of themed discussions and presentations starting… Continue reading December 16th 2024

Presentation by Matas Ubarevicius

December 9th: Matas Ubarevicius is the founder of Bit by Bit Developers and co-founder of Spatial Instruments B.V.. He is a hands-on founder and passionate software developer with a strong technical background in parametric architecture, programming, and 3D CAD kernels. He earned a master’s degree in Interactive Architecture from TU Delft in The Netherlands and has built his career… Continue reading Presentation by Matas Ubarevicius

Dec 4 2024 Prompt

You are an expert note taker and analyser of meetings. The name of our organization is The Future of Text. The overriding topic for our research this year is to discover what text is in XR. Please review this transcript and provide me with separate lists for all of the following. Do not use bullet… Continue reading Dec 4 2024 Prompt

22 November 2024

Demo Link: https://code.futuretextlab.info/andrew/ftl112224/ This version was demoed at The Future of Text Symposium 2024. Save System: •  Updated save system to support citation boxes•  Saving a state in WebXR downloads the library .json file•  Loading a library .json now checks for an embedded save and loads the state if it exists•  Libraries can be linked in the url using… Continue reading 22 November 2024

4 Dec 2024

Demo: https://code.futuretextlab.info/andrew/beta120324/

6 Nov 2024

Demo Link: beta110524 https://code.futuretextlab.info/andrew/beta110524/ Visual Changes:moved scroll bar to the left, and inverted the nub to be gray insteadmade box line width 50% smalleradded a loader when first entering the XR space to prevent users from navigating to unloaded spaces and crashing the environment XAN Lines:operates off a ‘xanlines’ boolean in the catalog .json file, allowing… Continue reading 6 Nov 2024

23 October 2024

https://3.basecamp.com/4200309/buckets/35632416/documents/7949284047 New References Interaction:// added reference bar to the right of the document that behaves in the same way as the outline bar// references now stack vertically (using step generation)    // max width to now support word wrap    // references no longer contain the link text, just “[##]” + “title” + ” –… Continue reading 23 October 2024

Cambrian Compatibility

In reply to–and in support of–Jack Park’s ‘Towards a Modern Cambrian Explosion Inspired by the late Douglas Engelbart’. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qwX7vgm2xWEoqNe9O3DfNRKRTDvSHpLCsLj3ygx7_5o/edit?usp=sharing My dear friend, mentor, and inspiration, Doug Engelbart, invented much of the knowledge work environment we all use today. Since he was an early innovator he had to invent much of the infrastructures as well as… Continue reading Cambrian Compatibility