26 April '26

A presentation to 'Writ Large' hosted by Tim Brookes: This session of Writ Large featured a guest presentation of Author, a writing application with a spatial map feature running on Apple Vision Pro, designed to support generative writing — writing undertaken to think rather than to record what is already known. A compressed demonstration of the tool's spatial interaction model gave way to an extended group dialog that drew surprising and frequent connections between the presenter's XR work and the group's existing research into writing studies, including three-dimensional scripts, the ancient concept of ductus, embodied cognition, calligraphy, and the individuality of handwriting.