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AI: Summary This meeting focused on “Active Memory Palaces and XR,” moderated by Frode Hegland. The discussion examined how traditional memory palace techniques could be reimagined for Extended Reality environments. Participants explored the concept of spatial information organization, moving beyond traditional memory palaces toward “active information spaces” that leverage human spatial cognition for knowledge work.… Continue reading July 14th : Active Memory Palaces

Ushering WebExtensions into the spatial age Moderation by Fabien Bénétou, Presentation by Ayaskant Panigrahi on WebExtensions, how to customize the browser, for WebXR. Ayaskant completed his B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engg. from IIITDM Jabalpur, India, during which he discovered his interest in Human-Computer Interaction research. After completing his M.Sc. researching futuristic on-arm 3D interfaces… Continue reading July 21st : Ayaskant Panigrahi

The Immersive Web Emulation Runtime (IWER) is a TypeScript-based tool designed to enable the running of WebXR applications in modern browsers without requiring native WebXR support. By emulating the WebXR Device API, IWER provides developers with the ability to test and run WebXR projects across a wide range of devices, ensuring compatibility and enhancing the development process.… Continue reading July 28th : Felix Z

Kartik Agaram is a lapsed academic who works as a programmer in Silicon Valley by day, and tries to improve on Silicon Valley over nights and weekends. Kartik will show a few “Freewheeling apps” built over the last 3 years, small open-source products that are durable, aim to do one thing well, and are easy for individual… Continue reading July 7th : Kartik Agaram

Themed discussion moderated by Dene Grigar after brief introduction by Frode Hegland look at design of a hand-gesture menu system. Introduction Overview We are working on developing an interaction system for XR beyond the traditional keyboard and mouse/trackpad paradigm, where the user has richer controls over their information environments through richer gesture controls. This will… Continue reading How to get there? ‘Hands On’

Brief presentations by Frode Hegland, moderation by Dene Grigar. This follows our Midway presentation and we will discuss with the community where we should consider going next. AI: Summary This meeting focused on Frode Hegland’s proposal for enhancing XR reading experiences through a “summoning” system that would allow users to select text and invoke contextual information, 3D… Continue reading Where to go from here?

XR to Think & Create & Being Creative Presentation on Authoring in XR for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Introduction and moderation by Dene Grigar. Presentation by Dene Grigar, Frode Hegland and Fabien Bénétou. Live XR Demos Dene Grigar, Frode Hegland, Fabien Benetou, Mark Anderson, Andrew Thompson, Peter Wasilko, Brandel Zachernuk, Ken Pfeuffer, Tom Haymes,… Continue reading Midway Presentation

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