I am simultaneously working on a proposal to the National Science Foundation and a paper for a forthcoming ACM publication on the topic of Interactions in Extended Reality. Both of these focus on questions about how we can shape the future of augmented and virtual reality, and how we can design interactions within that future.
There is a lot of overlap between the two endeavors, although they are different in many ways. For one thing, a proposal talks about what we plan to do, whereas a paper about the future talks about what everybody might plan to do.
But in both cases I am finding it really helpful to look back through this blog, and see what I had to say about the future on various days. In a way, it’s a sort of conversation with myself.
Which is weird, but also kind of fun. Especially whenever I find that I don’t agree with me.