I Fed Avocado Toast To An AI and Here’s What Happened
Say I wanted to make an app that recognizes avocado toast, and I have an AI model ready to go. …
The Air We Breathe: a cross-reality balloon exhibition
Shown above: Social distance balloons. (The balloon on the left is a hologram, remoting in via …
Cross-R Meetings for Remote-first Teams
What are meetings for? Specifically, what are meetings between geographically distant people …
Environments and Stations: a preliminary phenomenology
. When I started writing this post, I thought I was analyzing the difference between working in a …
Cross-R Collaboration: Our latest prototype!
Feel free to check out the video first then read here for a more in depth look at the tech, …
Combination Physical and Virtual Tools for Spatial Computation
Introduction We like the idea of being able to do computation and programming in a natural way, …
Collaging Spatial Programming Techniques: Nested AI in ‘Gestural’ blocks
I’ve been imagining again. This time it’s a way of working with nested scripting techniques …
Computation for Hands, Systems for Humans
Introduction Recently my hands were craving computation. We were waiting on some VR hardware and …
Making and Using AI Together: an unscalable approach to interpretable ML
In this post we are going to explore my prototype of an XR interface for communal research on an …
Trained Trust: A two-way, refereed feedback mechanism for on-demand work
In this post we are going to walk through a proposal for a new mechanism for structuring on …
Data Dignity at RadicalxChange
Back in March this year we headed to Detroit for RadicalxChange, a conference with the stated …
Certified Sustainable: USDA Organic, LEED Platinum, and the future of ethical AI
Recently Governor Gavin Newsom announced that his administration plans to pursue a “data …
Changing my Mind about AI, Universal Basic Income, and the Value of Data
Introduction Alan Turing created the Turing Test in 1950, Marvin Minsky wrote the first neural …
Rigorous Play in Interpretable Machine Learning
An AI, in its least flattering light, is a giant pile of calculus and what ever bias it was fed …
The Art of Research - A History by Vi Hart
TAOR continues the research tradition of eleVR, a group that existed from early 2014 to late. …
VR Interface for Generative ML Collaboration
Today, creating AI models is a process reserved for experts. Cleaning data, tuning hyper …
We are Collage: Dada, Instagram, and the future of AI
Collage is the language of the moment, but has been for over 100 years. Let’s walk through …
Welcome to TAOR
(We are pronouncing it “tower.”) Welcome to the new blog of researchers Vi Hart and M …