Reality Plus Us Avi Bar-Zeev and Helen Papagiannis

Helen asks Avi to tell us whatever he can tell us about the Apple Vision Pro. We go into lots of detail around Spatial Computing, the whole set of human senses, spatial memories, interesting related work in the field, and the future of this space.

Helen and Avi interview journalist and CNET Editor at Large Scott Stein about his experience in theater, tech reporting, and most recently being perhaps the only journalist to try out the AVP three times before it becomes generally available in Feb, 2024.

Further episode resources available at RealityPl.us

Helen and Avi interview Julian Bleecker, guru of Design Fiction and co-author of the Manual of Design Fiction, among other interesting things.

BONUS FEATURE available on YouTube (linked via RealityPl.us website).

00:00 Introduction
1:28 "VR is finally here!" 1992
7:36 Following faint signals into the future
13:00 The Manual of Design Fiction
20:23 A dance between imagination and structure
24:05 Feeling the future with all of our senses
30:06 Design Fiction artifacts to provoke (vs. solving a problem)
36:33 Rendering the future as mundane and broken
39:02 What makes a great story
41:29 World Building
42:51 Minority Report, glitches, and Science Fiction
51:44 Solarpunk and optimistic futures
53:49 Star Trek
55:25 Design Fiction as a conversation starter
57:32 What's the role of art and artists
1:02:48 What's the difference between Science Fiction and Design Fiction
1:08:10 AR eye drops Design Fiction
1:11:49 Near Future Laboratory and community
1:14:16 General Seminar and Super Seminar workshops

Thanks for listening!