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The first time we handed our AR demo to a stranger, she did what any sensible person would do, she watched the world around. The room was busy, reflections from a window, her face moving in and out of light, and our neat row of icons behaved like extras, present, but not useful. In my notes I wrote a single line “if the room is our scene, the interface must be part of it not just a heads up display”.
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Charlie was 15 when his life inexplicably shrank to fit within the frame of his lower bunk bed in his family's cramped Hong Kong apartment.
“I felt very depressed, confused, like I didn’t know what I wanted,” said Charlie, who’s now 19 and still learning how to navigate the world outside.
Charlie is among millions of hikikomori, a Japanese term for people who cut themselves off from society, sometimes for months or years – often Gen Z and Millennials in the prime of their youth.
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