Spatial computing becomes considerably more interesting when the technology stops being the experience and starts helping someone do actual work. For years, augmented and mixed reality have frequently been demonstrated through spectacle. Virtual objects float in rooms. Large screens appear in empty space. Digital characters stand on tables. Architecture can be previewed before it exists. […]
Artificial intelligence learned language first. Increasingly, it is being asked to learn the world that language describes. Much of the current AI boom has been built around information that fits naturally inside a computer. Text. Images. Audio. Code. Documents. Databases. But many of the problems humans need to solve do not exist primarily in those […]
The next generation of interface design will not simply help people operate software. Increasingly, the software will operate alongside them. For most of the history of digital products, the relationship between a person and a system has been relatively straightforward. A user opens an application, finds a control, provides an instruction and waits for a […]
