The Facets of a Full Metaverse Experience, By Design As a preface, before jumping into the deep end, I’ll approach the shallower side by taking a stab at defining the “m-word du jour.” A general answer to “what is a metaverse?” is usually trifold: it’s a digital world that’s shared, spatialized, and interactive. Call the “interactive” part “social” instead…

Looking back, there’s absolutely no way to sum up 2022 in a Year-in-Review that does justice to all of the quiet nuance as well as the magnitude. …

(with excerpts from W.B. Yeats’ The Second Coming, Robert Frost’s Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening, William Wordsworth’s The World is Too Much With Us and Shakespeare’s Hamlet) Turning and turning the widening gyre, the falconer cannot hear… The rooster, he crows, and it snows, it snows… Whose woods these…

For three decades, I’ve been passionate about what I’ve defined as a personal and professional mission: “empowering meaningful human connection.” Full stop. That connection is often mediated by technology in the form of the stories we share and experiences we co-create. …

When I attended the Wisdom 2.0 Summit last week, it was described as part-physical, part-virtual. A dual form, sometimes called a “hybrid event.” In a meet-up before the conference kickoff, I called it “tribrid” instead, using a beautiful term coined by XR Immersive Tech & Experience Strategist Kathleen Cohen. …

My grandfather’s birthday is today, April 11. If he were still alive, he would be 102 this year, an auspicious number in space flight.* I’m remembering him today, as I share a bit of the inspirations that have lofted and lifted over the past few days. It’s been an incredible…

As a college freshman at Duke University, one of the first things I learned was how to spell Mike Krzyzewski’s name by heart. It’s not an easy last name to learn, so I broke it into 3’s and created a sort of poetry out of it. I was in Naval…

This article is part of a series of Design Retrospectives on the prototypes commissioned by Cooper Hewitt’s Interaction Lab as part of Activating Smithsonian Open Access. Introduction When ScienceVR co-founders Yen-Ling Kuo, Jackie Lee, and I began to approach the design process for the Activating Smithsonian Open Access (ASOA) open call…

I’ve had islands on the brain for nearly three decades. At a workshop held in Boston in the wintertime, friends and I were told to play around with Legos during a design exercise, making up metaphors for what we constructed. What I pieced together looked like an island. With a…