Apple Vision Pro: a tentative first step into a phygital world

By Adam Tinworth

The launch of the Vision Pro is the end of a decade of development — but only the very beginning of figuring out what spatial computing is.

Augmented realities for lizard brains

By Adam Tinworth

NEXT23 gave us a roadmap to a blended physical and digital world but warned that our brains might not be ready for these new realities.

Apple didn’t launch a headset: it released a spatial computing platform

By Adam Tinworth

Apple Vision Pro, the first headset from the company, isn’t a Metaverse device. It’s Apple’s first true spatial computing product.

The Brain Interface: the final evolution of UI?

By Adam Tinworth

Is the brain the final frontier of user interfaces? How far are we away from controlling our device with our thoughts?

If you’re waiting for the metaverse to arrive, you’ll be disappointed

By Adam Tinworth

Behind the buzzword, there's a much more interesting dynamic at work. And if you understand that, you can make better plans for our virtual future.

Katie Burke: you can still help define the metaverse

By Adam Tinworth

If building metaverse concepts and communities during the pandemic has taught Accenture Song’s metaverse lead anything — it’s that this future is still being shaped.

Holoride: making a mobile metaverse

By Adam Tinworth

The Metaverse will not be the preserve of one company. Some businesses, like Holoride, have been working on it for nearly a decade.

Nils Wollny: the Metaverse in motion

By Adam Tinworth

What does the Metaverse look like in action? What does it look like in motion? That's what Holoride has set out to explore.

The Reality Filter Bubble

By David Mattin

The next filter bubble won't be on information, but on reality itself. And the implications are far-reaching.

VR has made us blind to the true potential of spatial computing

By Adam Tinworth

We’ve been brainwashed by the movies of the 80s and 90s to think that spatial computing will be delivered via glasses. It’s time to open our eyes to this technology’s true potential.

Will spatial computing define the fourth cycle of personal computing?

By Martin Recke

Spatial computing, possibly the fourth paradigm of personal computing, is today where mobile was before the iPhone.

New realities

By Martin Recke

Code permeates our lives like an invisible dimension. We talk to voice systems, allow our knowledge to be controlled by algorithms, analyse our emotions with machines, observe ourselves through computers, and fight digital wars.

Forget augmented reality — we’re already living in an augmented society.

By Adam Tinworth

As the internet relentlessly connects us, people grow more lonely. Maybe some of the problems aren't digital at all…

A short walk through our first book

By Martin Recke

Here at NEXT, we are somehow obsessed with the near future, culminating in the question: What's next? We've published a book, printed in German and as an e-book in both English and German, to spread some insights worth spreading.

How will the end of smartphones look like?

By Martin Recke

The fourth cycle of personal computation will be dominated by strong platforms that can tie lots of very different devices together with software and services. The winner will be whoever provides the superior user experience.

Augmented modernity may be a way off – but we need to start preparing now

By Adam Tinworth

A world where the digital and the physical intermingle for a seamless augmented reality is coming – and we need to start thinking about the moral and legal implications now.

Modernity and Reality are the Next Frontier

By Martin Recke

We already almost lost the difference between online and offline, or between digital and analogue. Reality itself could be next. In comparison, fake news is just a minor issue.

An Immersive Experience that doesn’t suck

By Martin Recke

Let's shift perspective to the user’s point of view and talk about immersive experience instead of vr, ar, or mixed reality.

Relive #NEXT16 – the first videos are up

By Adam Tinworth

Experience the insights of #NEXT16 as the first wave of videos from the event become available.

NEXT16: Nils Wollny on mobile VR

By Adam Tinworth

What happens when you aren't driving your car? Maybe, you can be driven through a whole other reality… Audi is exploring this idea.

Tim Cook: Augmented Reality will be bigger than Virtual Reality

By Adam Tinworth

Although Apple is get to enter the VR market, its CEO is talking up augmented reality instead.