Dynamic Library

Hypercard in the World (2015) was our second spatial computing system, designed around blessing real objects in the world and putting programs on them.

It was preceded by Room OS (2015).

Things made in the system include:

Bigboard (2015) is the visible implementation of the system itself.

The Research gallery (2015) is a laserable poster of group projects that anyone can add to.

In the Dynamic Library (2015) books can be lasered and seen all at once.

The Seeing Spaces dynamic poster (2015) can be lasered to navigate the video.

The Serengeti (2015) is an active diorama. Lasered animals make sounds.

The Movie-map (2015) is another video in the form of a laserable poster.

Laser painting (2015) on the wall.

Minecraft lasers (2015) allows audience participation during a movie screening.

Ten games were made during the Laser game jam (2015).

Especially noteworthy games are Laser Socks (2015) and Mole Tank (2015).

Attempting Deep Work (2015) was another laser-participatory movie screening.

A computing system for dynamic spatial media (2015) summarizes the system and describes the initial stages of moving toward the next one.

While Dave and Robert were trying to see a whole video at once, Bret wanted to see a whole book at once.

The Understanding Comics wall collage (2014) started things off.

Glen's Phumblr (2014) turned a reading list into a space.

The Mathematical Modeling poster (2014) is an expanded table of contents.

The Reading in context (2014) posters have thumbnail grids of entire chapters.

Diorama timelines (2014) get three-dimensional.

Hanging mobile timelines (2014) get three-dimensional and airborne.

In Known unknowns (2014), Robert applies his video timelines to books and documents.

In the Dynamic Library (2015), the whole book is projected above the shelf, and can be interacted with. This is one of the two key projects (with Research gallery) that sparked Hypercard in the World, which led to Realtalk.

Collective Electrodynamics posters (2018) were actually used for studying an entire book in-depth.

Room OS (2015) was our first spatial computing environment.

It grew out of making the Research gallery (2015), a poster of group projects that could be lasered to bring up details.

The first "Hello world"-like application in the system was Bouncy balls (2015).

Tile files (2015) was an early idea for spatializing the programs themselves.

The past is always with us (2015) displayed the room's view of itself.

In the Dynamic Library (2015), we could laser-browse through books.

The urge to improve the library led to our second spatial computing environment, Hypercard in the World (2015), and development continued from there.