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Weekly podcast on the future of text from https://futuretextlab.info
Frode hosts Future Text Lab, a technology show with 28 episodes published.
This session carried the month's figure-and-ground theme into a concrete new use case, prompted by a first-time participant from the world of corporate law: the headset as a space for contested negotiation and dispute re
This session deepened the group’s figure-and-ground thread into a genuine reframing: the difficulty of showing relationships in a 360-degree knowledge space is not a problem of where to route a connective line, but a pro
This session continued the month's theme of figure and ground applied to reading and thinking in XR : when potentially every digital document is available at once, how do we decide what to bring forward and what to leave
This wide-ranging session, held in the hours before Apple‘s Worldwide Developer Conference, circled around a single underlying question: what is the right relationship between a person, their knowledge, and a designed sp
This session, framed around the theme of "figure and ground" (document versus workspace), explored how authoring in spatial computing should handle the vast surrounding context — references, notes, citations, and AI-gene
Introduction to the Thinking Music aspect of The Future Text Lab.
This session centred on the evolving spatial interface of Author for visionOS, using Douglas Engelbart's 1962 paper as a large-scale test document. The conversation moved from concrete design questions — how section card
The session centred on a guest presentation by Mohit Yadav exploring how meaning arises through dynamic assemblages of known and unknown elements during encounters with the world, arguing that current tools fail to inter
This session brought together regular members and two newcomers — one joining from Mumbai, another from Moscow — for a wide-ranging exploration that moved from a live demonstration of Author on macOS and Apple Vision Pro
Dave Millard is working hands-on in the Map view, testing node selection, movement, layout, and spatial organization. The conversation moves from immediate UX feedback into a deeper discussion about how AI should be inte
Across the four sessions of April 2026, the Future Text Lab circled a persistent and sharpening question: what, precisely, would compel someone to put on a headset and do serious knowledge work? The month opened with Fro
This session explored the intersection of AI in education, the crisis of academic publishing and document ownership, and the question of what a future-proof knowledge document format might look like. The conversation mov
A presentation to 'Writ Large' hosted by Tim Brookes: This session of Writ Large featured a guest presentation of Author, a writing application with a spatial map feature running on Apple Vision Pro, designed to support
This session explored the tension between spatial movement and sedentary interaction in XR knowledge environments, the philosophical gap between incremental implementation and larger augmentation visions, and the nature
This session wove together three interconnected threads: the design philosophy behind generative writing tools (specifically Author), the emerging framework of “core and contextual” writing spaces as a bridge between fla
The 6 April 2026 session of the Future Text Lab was a wide-ranging exploration of what spatial knowledge nodes should look like, feel like, and be used for in XR environments. Grounded in Frode Hegland's introductory "Be
This year's Symposium will be on the 14th of September, returning to London College of Communication. 'The Future of Augmented Thought"
This session brought together the Future Text Lab community to examine the cognitive science underpinning spatial text interfaces and to develop a practical design philosophy for combining traditional framed displays wit
The 23 March 2026 session of the Future Text Lab gathered Frode Hegland, Tom Haymes, Brandel Zachernuk, and Peter Dimitrious for a wide-ranging discussion centred on the nature of knowledge interaction in XR — specifical
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 comp
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