We believe a fundamental change will occur when working in XR becomes the norm because when we see different, and we can interact differently, we become different.
Our concern is that the paradigms of working in XR will be owned solely by commercial entities that have their own priorities. Therefore our goal is to inspire & enable powerfully useful XR workspaces & workflows. We aim to inspire through building experiences that are truly useful, not just demos, and we aim to enable others through community dialog & support for open infrastructures.
To fully augment knowledge work in XR, dialog is crucial but it also becomes necessary to build systems that are better than ‘what ships with the headset’. We have chosen to focus on augmenting academic reading and authorship first, with open systems that anyone can take advantage of to build ‘power tools’ for the mind for other user groups as well.
We are therefore pursuing three main avenues of work, all of which you can learn more about on the main Future of Text website:
- Dialog (Weekly Meetings, Annual Symposium and Book Publishing)
- XR Software to experience experiments
- Open Metadata, starting with Visual-Meta and extending into embedded, sidecar and document JSON.