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Tom Haymes: Good afternoon. You’re miming? Frode Hegland: It’s still kind of a boxy sound, isn’t it? Tom Haymes: Are you getting a little bit of room echo? Frode Hegland: Let me try this microphone. Tom Haymes: I think there’s a setting on Zoom in the audio. It’s pretty sophisticated. That will take care of… Continue reading 23 March 2026 — Clean Transcript

Themes and Read & Write? We are mostly focusing on the space of knowledge and what that might mean. On comprehension and XR The Greek episteme means literally overstand — to stand above and survey. The Old English understandan means to stand among. In XR we can build environments where you both simultaneously. You can zoom out to the overview — the bird’s… Continue reading March 23rd ’26

We will be taking about the Movement of Knowledge, particularly in and out of XR. AI: Summary This session of the Future Text Lab community centered on what host Frode Hegland called the “movement of knowledge” — the challenge of transporting and reshaping personal and scholarly knowledge from traditional 2D computing environments into XR. Frode demonstrated a… Continue reading March 16th

Inspired by https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/ this is the next proposed model: Overview This document specifies an annotation system for macOS and XR in which annotations and definitions are independent knowledge objects stored in a shared BibTeX-compatible ledger file. The system serves two user actions: Both actions produce entries in the same ledger. Both are viewable in the… Continue reading Unified Annotations Infrastructure (w3C shaped)

[Verse 1]Before the press, before the page was cheapA monk drew breath and pressed his reedInto the vellum’s edge, not to correctBut to continue thinking where the author stoppedA conversation opened in the marginsThe text said this, the reader answered but what about…And in that slender gutter between columnsThe first annotation learned to breathe [Verse… Continue reading “What the Margins Knew” Lyrics

We will look at Conference Dialog in XR and how we can think of Annotations as Knowledge Objects along the lines of Citations, Quotes and other explicit data in an academic knowledge space. Imagine not only underlining when you read, but actively building a structure of the knowledge. Something which you can usefully access and… Continue reading March 9th

Annotations are essentially writings about other writings. And this is important. If we abstract it, we could think of a paper being a collection of annotations. Interaction with Annotation To Review single document with Annotations. For this the user will access the document and choose to view annotations in situ or separately, linearly, mapped or… Continue reading Annotations

The goal is to produce a single JSON file that merges glossary definitions, citations, and spatial layouts into one readable structure. The glossary and citations form a shared pool of nodes. Multiple named layouts can arrange those same nodes in different spatial configurations. Both layouts and citations can be called from body text using inline… Continue reading Spatial Knowledge Minimalist Format

AI: Summary The 23 February 2026 session of the Future Text Lab brought together Frode Hegland, Tom Haymes, Peter Dimitrios, Ken Perlin, Astral_Druid, and Rob Swigart (via chat) for a wide-ranging conversation centered on how text, citations, and knowledge structures can be meaningfully represented and interacted with in spatial and extended reality environments. The session… Continue reading 23 Feb 2026

This month’s project explores spatial authoring and XR-based knowledge environments. We use as a our example to spark dialog the spatial map in Author for visionOS. Topics will include interactions for choosing what to select, what to view, how to arrange, how to show and hide and so on. Further discussions are expected to include… Continue reading February Project