<story><title>Laser Socks – a sweaty game pointing toward the future of computing</title><url>http://glench.com/LaserSocks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>germinalphrase</author><text>Interactive and augmented environments are far more exciting to me than the promises of VR. Why escape my life when I can make my lived world better?&lt;p&gt;The Dynamicland stuff is particularly fun due to the promise of accessibility. A mature version of this vision would be tremendously exciting for me as a high school teacher.&lt;p&gt;When I read about VR in education I mostly see &amp;quot;experiences&amp;quot; as a defining value of the platform. This is fine, but less interesting than the potential for augmented environments to enhance my nuts-and-bolts professional practice. I want to be able to create personalized tools for interacting with media and ideas (extant and live creations) and managing interpersonal communications&amp;#x2F;interactions in my room. I can see immediate value in the ability to build branching lesson plans with trigger-able subroutines to provide more individually appropriate experiences to students. I feel strongly about non-linear learning opportunities, but they&amp;#x27;re logistically difficult.  Likewise, to create modifiable one-to-one&amp;#x2F;one-to-some&amp;#x2F;one-to-many communications channels to smooth the experience of working with 30-35 people when I can only be in one place at a time (and to mollify the anxieties&amp;#x2F;anger&amp;#x2F;angst of being a teenager expected to publicly perform in a crowd).&lt;p&gt;There are any number of small tools I would like to build. I know what problems I want to fix to improve my efficacy, and I don&amp;#x27;t need polished consumer products to do that.&lt;p&gt;If &amp;quot;Hypercard for the World&amp;quot; allowed me to start hacking together useful tools for myself, I would shower them with love.</text></comment>
<story><title>Laser Socks – a sweaty game pointing toward the future of computing</title><url>http://glench.com/LaserSocks/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>westoncb</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s where the &amp;#x27;pointing toward the future of computing&amp;#x27; bit comes in:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Similarly, Laser Socks is a fun demo by itself, but what we as researchers hope it points toward is a new type of computing that instead of isolating humans in artificial digital worlds, provides a medium of expression that is continuous and integrated with our physical and social worlds&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;So this is one &amp;#x27;application&amp;#x27; built on an &amp;#x27;OS&amp;#x27; developed by Bret Victor and Robert Ochshorn which was called &lt;i&gt;Hypercard in the World&lt;/i&gt;, though the latest version is called &lt;i&gt;Realtalk&lt;/i&gt;. More info here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;limn.it&amp;#x2F;utopian-hacks&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;limn.it&amp;#x2F;utopian-hacks&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>