The session explored spatial authoring and XR-based knowledge environments, with Frode demonstrating a 3D knowledge map prototype derived from meeting transcripts and AI-generated glossaries, prompting a wide-ranging discussion about gestures, selection models, timelines, writing practices, and how immersive systems might augment human thinking rather than replace it.

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.

This session explored whether and how XR environments can meaningfully augment how people read, understand, and relate to complex knowledge, using a concrete but deliberately constrained experiment: presenting a single letter as a spatial, interactive object. The discussion surfaced tensions between play and utility, emotional impact and practical value, and between exploratory artistic research and task-driven design, while reaffirming the group’s shared belief that spatial interaction with information opens fundamentally new cognitive possibilities that cannot yet be fully articulated.

The session explored how a single written letter could be transformed into a spatial XR experience to demonstrate the future of text, focusing on how documents, citations, and concepts can become manipulable objects in space rather than static pages. The discussion treated XR as an exploratory, artistic medium rather than a solved HCI problem, using constraints to surface new possibilities.

Summary of our meeting on the 5th of January as analyzed and processed by Claude.