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?

Is language a system?

By Martin Recke

Whether we understand language as a system has implications for our understanding of reality and representation.

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.

Reality versus Metaverse: the tipping point

By Martin Recke

Physical reality is only a subset of today's reality, and soon the default will be the metaverse. Think black & white TV.

The age of personalisation has arrived

By Martin Recke

Everything comes at a price. The price of liberation can be atomisation and isolation. Welcome to the age of personalisation.

Digital reality and the virtual world

By Martin Recke

Virtual reality is no less real than physical reality. Experience is the key to reality. Oobah Butler explains how VR will shape us, comparing it to a mind-altering drug.

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.

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.

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.

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.

VR: cheap and mobile or expensive and immersive?

By Adam Tinworth

On one hand we have Facebook's Occulus Rift charging $599. On the other we have McDonalds give a VR viewer away with a happy meal. Which approach will win?

Future Fictions: Uncanny Valley

By Adam Tinworth

What could VR do to us - and our culture? One cautionary tale…