AI is getting better at creating and understanding 3D scenes. Better displays give us new ways to experience them. This site is about how those two are changing each other.
On one side, models that reconstruct a room from photographs, predict how objects move, and plan a path through a space they have never seen. They work on the room, not on a picture of it.
On the other, ordinary devices that can finally show spatial content: phones, laptops and monitors that need no glasses and no headset.
The first things to come out of the meeting are ordinary and human. A photograph with depth in it holds a memory differently. A call where you can meet someone’s eyes is a different call. Presence, memory and shared work are all better when space survives the recording.
Most people file these as two industries — spatial AI over here, displays and XR over there, different conferences and different press. From close up they are one story told from two ends. Each side is the other’s missing piece: a model that can imagine a room has nowhere to show it, and a screen that can show a room has never had enough to put on it.
What comes of that is the interesting part. That is what the essays are for.
The Author
David Fattal. Founder and CTO of Leia Inc., which makes glasses-free 3D displays, and founder of the DisplayXR project, an open extension of OpenXR that lets an application drive a spatial display the same way it already drives a headset. Written in a personal capacity.
Signal
Signal is a machine-collected news river covering the same ground: what shipped, what was claimed, and what nobody has checked yet. It runs on a schedule and is labelled as automated, so a quiet week looks like a quiet week. The source list is hand-picked. Market-research wire mills are excluded.