How Technology Can Make Us More Human

However, despite being our most essential tools, even today’s computers remain against our natural senses. When using computers or the internet, we cannot employ our natural, inborn modes of interaction, nor can we manipulate them as freely as our own bodies. Our brains have dedicated areas for fingers and knees, but not for computers and the internet.

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Here, our brains possess a mechanism called the ‘body schema,’ which spatially encodes the boundaries of our bodies. It is known that even tools that are not physically part of our bodies, like white canes, can be encoded as part of the body by this schema as long as they can be spatially represented. This means that when spatial computing transforms space itself into a new computer, and the spatial web unfolds the internet beyond screens into the three-dimensional world we live in, our most important tools can become part of our bodies.

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VRCREW is creating a new way to organize the world’s information within such a spatial web environment. And through augmented reality, we will be able to access and interact with this information through voice, gestures, or even just at-a-glance, in the most natural way we were born with to interact with others.