15 June '26

This session continued the month's theme of figure and ground applied to reading and thinking in XR: when potentially every digital document is available at once, how do we decide what to bring forward and what to leave as background? Using a long, heavily structured online essay as a shared test case, the group worked across three registers at once — the practical question of how such a piece might be re-presented spatially, the physiological limits of human reading, and the deeper conceptual question of how to make the process of thinking visible rather than only its finished products. Running underneath was a candid thread about the present state of headset adoption and the everyday frictions that decide whether anyone bothers to put one on. https://futuretextlab.info/2026/06/22/22-june-2026/