🟣 SC 🔴 HCI 🔵 FS

Imagine a world where technology isn’t just an observer of your reality, but an active participant. Picture yourself using Apple’s ‘Vision Pro’, a monument of innovation that takes an unprecedented leap into the future of spatial computing. Instead of merely observing the digital world, we’re living in it, interacting with it, and shaping it. Welcome to the revolutionary realm of spatial computing, a frontier ripe with new challenges and possibilities for us and our product teams.

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Around 8 months ago I wrote a post here explaining how the metaverse concept is not a singular destination but just multiple layers of digital reality all around us to tap into whenever and however we choose to. This is primarily why so many projects have failed already, including Meta’s own Horizon Worlds which wanted us to log into a virtual rendering of the same environments we inhabit today.

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🟣 SC 🔴 HCI

With each example we see a trend towards making technology less like a tool that is a separate entity and more like an extension of the users. It might be clear by now where I’m going with this. A favourable UX has minimum to no interface interaction. This makes technology more accessible and overall enjoyable to use. However, the examples mentioned above are making the interface completely “invisible”.

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🟣 SC 🔴 HCI

Freshly emerged from the HCI for UX program at MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, I am brimming with ideas for exploring emerging technologies. One area that continually piques my interest is the future of screenless interactions.

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WebXR is a technology that allows three-dimensional experiences directly in your browser, with or without additional devices. It streamlines access to immersive experiences by eliminating the need to download specialized applications or use specific hardware.

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In the near future, the gap between magic and technology will continue to narrow. Augmented reality (AR) will become a central part of our lives. We will share our physical space with three-dimensional digital objects, and it will be difficult and even impossible to distinguish between them and physical reality.

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🔵 FS 🟠 Des-fi 🟡 Sci-fi

Not so in solarpunk, an alternative vision emerging on the internet, which dreams of a more hopeful future for people and planet. Solarpunk’s central premise is that there are ways for nature and tech to exist in harmony—we just need the imagination and motivation to make it happen.

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🔵 FS 🟠 Des-fi

“Trying to anticipate the future is like driving on a winding road at night. You can see what’s in front of you, and things in the distance ultimately come into view as you move forward. But beyond that, you can’t know,” they say.

They worry this kind of thinking overlooks present-day problems and could even be used to justify harmful actions if they might benefit future generations.

To understand the best way to think about what comes next, Inverse contributor and tech journalist Becca Caddy spoke to philosopher and eschatologist Émile Torres about the future and the inspiration for their upcoming book, Human Extinction: A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation, which is due out in July.

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Hosted on the virtual social platform ENGAGE, the “Eat, Sleep, VR Repeat” event featured everything from captivating visual effects to original animations, all of which were designed to immerse audiences in the mind of the veteran musician and record producer.

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In 2022, over 700 top academics and researchers behind the leading artificial intelligence companies were asked in a survey about future A.I. risk. Half of those surveyed stated that there was a 10 percent or greater chance of human extinction (or similarly permanent and severe disempowerment) from future A.I. systems. Technology companies building today’s large language models are caught in a race to put all of humanity on that plane.

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