AI summary (Claude Fable) AI: Summary The 11 August 2026 session of the Future Text Lab brought together Frode Hegland, Brandel Zachernuk (briefly, before a standing meeting), Tom Haymes, Benja Gooder, Astral_Druid, and Heiner Benking (listening in from a train). What began as a technical question — can the HTML model element live inside an… Continue reading 11 Aug ’26
Tag: XR
3 August ’26
AI : Summary This session combined three intertwined demonstrations with a wide-ranging discussion on spatializing knowledge. First-time participant Benja demonstrated a prototype writing tool that visualizes deeply nested parenthetical clauses as stacked layers, addressing working-memory limits in complex prose. This was followed by a Game of Life knowledge-sculpture prototype for visionOS and a demonstration of a live Earth-and-space environment… Continue reading 3 August ’26
21 July ’26
AI: Summary The session centered on how conversational coding inside a native development environment has collapsed the cost and effort of making bespoke software, letting non-programmers prototype working tools for their own letters, notes, and knowledge simply by writing prose — and on what that means for a community of text and hypertext researchers who… Continue reading 21 July ’26
13 July
The ‘vibe’ of knowledge – Intro We now have LLM’s helping us code inside our coding environment. Frode Hegland has started working with Claude in Xcode and found it surprisingly powerful and is therefore working on an app (open source, free, available and documented, with easy ways to add custom views). The app is based… Continue reading 13 July
26 Jan 2026
Agenda AI Summary The session explored how XR might transform reading, annotation, and meeting memory by making text spatial, embodied, and navigable, while also debating how future records of intellectual work could be queried, remixed, and preserved across time through interoperable systems, journals, notebooks, and immersive archives. The primary focus was on spatializing knowledge in… Continue reading 26 Jan 2026
29 Dec 2025
We discussed the year in review to some extend but looked more to the future. We decided that we will start next year with a dialog around Knowledge Objects for XR (copy paste!), for a lack of a better term. AI: Summary This session focused on the final stages of publishing the Future Text book… Continue reading 29 Dec 2025
15 Dec 2025
AI: Summary The session examined how a future wisdom library might be realized through XR, spatial interfaces, and open metadata, focusing on how knowledge systems could remain fluid, contextual, and revisable rather than fixed, authoritative, or purely archival, with books, documents, and libraries treated as evolving participants in a broader ecosystem of understanding rather than static endpoints. AI: Highlights Frode… Continue reading 15 Dec 2025
22 Dec 2025
AI: Summary The session explored how scholarly knowledge can be structured, connected, and experienced in XR, focusing on the tension between fixed documents and fluid, reader-driven assemblies of text, metadata, and annotation, with sustained attention to reading practices, binding and curation, and the shifting audiences of academic writing in a machine-mediated world. AI: Highlights The… Continue reading 22 Dec 2025
1 Dec 2025
AI: Summary The session explored how text, interfaces, and social structure shape meaning-making in XR-era knowledge work, moving fluidly between concrete interface design decisions, the limits of current citation systems, and the social mechanics of sustaining a focused yet inclusive research community. Participants reflected on AI and XR maturity, the realities of cost and access,… Continue reading 1 Dec 2025
26 June 2024
A prototype interface has been added to the non-dominant hand. Turn the non-dominant palm towards you to activate the menu. On the dominant index finger, an orange dot will appear. On the dominant hand, nodes will appear on each finger tip. Point the index finger near the nodes to view sub-menu paths and navigate. Pinch to select nodes with white cores.
