From Spatial Computing to Contextual Computing w/ Nir Daube

About this episode

The episode explores the future of human-computer interaction through the lens of LIBBA's vision for AI and AR integration.

How much of your life is spent staring at a screen? Probably more than you care to admit. Now imagine, all that distraction and friction disappearing. No more scrolling, typing, tapping. No more barriers between you and the information you need. No more heads down moments, getting lost in an array button, menus, and icons, breaking the flow of conversation and connection. Instead, AI gets unleashed from tiny text boxes. It greets you as a companion in the real world, enhances your day without distracting from it, and moves us from a world of fixed, flat UI’s to generative, spatial UI’s, adapting based upon what we’re doing, who we’re with, and where we are; perhaps even how we’re feeling… That’s the world a new startup called LIBBA is building; a world in which AR glasses and AI fuse to transform human-computer interaction, and our relationship with technology. In this episode, we’ll jump 5-10 years into the future to explore the human experience once LIBBA accomplishes this mission. How do we get there? Where are we now in the technology adoption cycle? And in classic Medium Energy fashion, we explore the philosophical questions behind this degree of merging the digital with the…

People in this episode

Host: Evan Helda

Guest: Nir Daube

Topics covered

• spatial computing
• contextual computing
• human-computer interaction
• AI
• augmented reality
• technology adoption
• philosophy

Keywords

• spatial UI
• AI
• augmented reality
• human experience
• technology adoption
• digital-physical merging
• LIBBA

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: LIBBA

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