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Spatial interfaces

From this What I Use interview:

My ideal setup would be one where I rely a lot less on screens, and a lot more on natural interactions with the physical environment, and perhaps voice. Humans aren’t built for sitting down all day and staring at a dumb bright rectangle, and our big spatial brains, with our bodies designed to precisely navigate 3D space, are wasted on this tiny flat world we have created for ourselves.

– Rupert Parry.

I wonder if some of the first VR computing environments will mimic, even if for fun, old 1980s office environments with actual filing cabinets you walk up to and pull files from – except that these files can be from anywhere in the world. A drawer is a search results page.