Possible Internet

Overview

A speculative reading environment where extended reality lets you organize texts around the whole room. You move from the couch, to standing, to your desk, and everything stays connected by wires as you go.

Collaborators

Jeff Wilkinson

Type

Speculative

Augmented Reality

Research

Case Study

Year

2022

Antlers
web of references
expanded reference
expanded reference
secondary antlers
secondary section
secondary section
Research

We started with a text ribbon, imagining how text might read in 3D space using Rapid Serial Visual Presentation speed reading technology.

Image of miro board with sketches

Basic sketches and some gifs in Processing, imagining how a research paper might sit inside this framework.

Image of miro board with sketches

I used p5.js to rough out the 3D spaces quickly before committing to a fuller video.

Final prototype video

Made in Blender. It shows how extended reality could change an academic literature review session.

Collaborative research and critiques were done in a big miro board.
Image of miro board with sketches

We modeled our studio space in Blender for the final prototype. In the video at the top of the page, a reader (the purple hand) works through Ashley Anderson's Master's Thesis, "Working with Imagery: Mediating Image Rescripting for Anxiety with Multimodal Digital Storytelling." The first set of antlers holds every section of the paper, and the reader can shift which one sits at the bottom.

© Brian Sekelsky