Useful Links

Link	Research Codes	Information
80 Level	🌀 DTech 🟣 SC	80 Level is a global digital content publishing network that connects video game companies, talented individuals, and creative organizations for mutual benefit.
ACMI: Your Museum of Screen Culture	🌀 DTech	ACMI is your museum of screen culture. Navigate the universe of film, TV, videogames and art with us.
A-Frame	🟣 SC	A web framework for building 3D/AR/VR experiences, Make 3D worlds with HTML and Entity-Component, On any headset, mobile and desktop.
Allison Rising: An Architectural Fiction, Part 1: Houston	🔘 Arch 🟠 Des-fi	This is a work of fiction. Names, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
Amazing Architecture	🔘 Arch 🔵 FS	Amazing Architecture, a digital magazine for architecture projects, Interior design, Skyscraper, Visualization, Sketches, Products, Future architecture and Student's projects all over the world.
Apple Design Resources	🔴 HCI 🌀 DTech 🟣 SC	Design apps quickly and accurately by using Sketch, Photoshop, XD templates, guides, and other resources.
Betterverse - Game Library	🟠 Des-fi 🔵 FS	A research project by LUCA School of Arts. Unleash your futures literacy by taking play seriously. These games will facilitate you to think critically and imaginatively about the future of society, and collectively imagine brighter tomorrows.
Byte Magazine	🔴 HCI 🌀 DTech 🟣 SC	Byte magazine was a microcomputer magazine, influential in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s because of its wide-ranging editorial coverage. Whereas many magazines from the mid-1980s had been dedicated to the MS-DOS (PC) platform or the Mac, mostly from a business or home user's perspective, Byte covered developments in the entire field of "small computers and software", and sometimes other computing fields such as supercomputers and high-reliability computing.
Charts: the six attitudes to the future	🔵 FS	How the six groups from YouGov and the VA museum's future attitudes segmentation responded to each of our ten questions
City-Scale AR Template by Snap	🟣 SC	The City-Scale AR Template allows you to create unique Lens experience specific to select regions of certain cities around the world. The template provides a starter setup for City-Scale AR in addition to three examples City Scale AR Lenses.
Clock of the Long Now	🌀 DTech 🔵 FS
Closer Than We Think	🔵 FS 🟠 Des-fi 🌀 DTech	Visions Of The Future World According To Arthur Radebaugh: Electronic Home Library, Wall-to-Wall Television (Worldwide), Computerized Desk for the Home, Follow-The-Sun House, Office of the Future
Continent Issues	🌀 DTech 🔵 FS	continent. was founded in 2011 as an experimental publication and collective. For its first ten years, along with its other collaborative activities, it ran as scholarly-format publication or experimental academic journal, organised as subject specific journal and articles by generous and honoured contributors.
Design Fiction Daily	🟠 Des-fi	Design Fiction blog by Dré Labre
Design Fiction: Something and the Something in the Age of the Something (Presentation)	🟠 Des-fi	Julian Bleecker / 2008
Design Research Works	🟠 Des-fi	Our mission is to show the world what it can gain from Design Research
Discover visionOS	🟣 SC	Get ready to design and build an entirely new universe of apps and games for Apple Vision Pro.
Earth 2050 by Kaspersky	🔵 FS	Welcome to Earth 2050! It’s a site about the future as seen through the eyes of futurologists, scientists, and Internet users from all corners of the globe.
Experimental Realism	🟠 Des-fi 🔵 FS	..what began as a Speculative Spatial Design (SSD) pedagogy has grown into a digital platform for the speculative community including theBOOK, thePROJECT STORE, theLIST and theMENTORING PROGRAMME (ExRe).
Explain that stuff	🌀 DTech	All the articles on Explain that Stuff are written by Chris Woodford, a British science writer with over 25 years of experience in explaining science and technology.
Fashion Futuring	🔵 FS 🟠 Des-fi	Clarice Garcia is a doctoral researcher at RMIT University in Australia, she created Fashion Futuring - an award-winning speculative methodology that intelaces design, culture, strategic foresight and collaboration to spark imagination and provoke a values-driven transition towards sustainable futures.
Fundamentals of WebXR	🟣 SC	This guide provides an overview of what WebXR is and how it works, as well as the preliminary foundation needed to start developing augmented and virtual reality experiences for the web.
Futures Card Games	🟠 Des-fi 🔵 FS	An introductory creative exercise at the beginning of the “Cross-over workshop week Public Space”, organised by the MAD-faculty and UHasselt.
Future Education and Literacy for Designers (FUEL4Design)	🟠 Des-fi 🔵 FS	It aims at developing knowledge, resources and methods to help young designers designing for complex tomorrows. FUEL4Design builds on an extensive research programme conducted by leading universities and experts in Europe.
Futures: Ideas for a sustainable world by ARUP	🔵 FS	Blog about future by ARUP
Futures Canvas	🟠 Des-fi 🔵 FS	Futures Canvas is a digital tool for collaboratively designing maps of possible futures.
Futures Thinking: A Mind-set, not a Method	🔵 FS	Design practices are becoming increasingly future-focussed, reflecting the complexities of the design challenges that we face. Futures thinking can offer us tools and methods to help with this, but more than that, it might offer us a new way of seeing the world that we design for.
Here’s How People From The Past Imagined The Future	🔵 FS 🌀 DTech
How TVs have changed through the decades	🟣 SC 🌀 DTech	by Matthew Wilson, Business Insider
Infinite Futures	🔵 FS	by Dr. Wendy Schultz, This website promotes the exploration of a wide variety of alternative futures: it offers tools, references, personal perspectives, and links tat can help you acquire futures fluency yourself.
Inspire by Arup	🔵 FS	Arup Inspire is a collection of emerging ideas and case studies from around the world. Curated by Arup's Foresight team, Inspire acts as a catalyst for finding new approaches and better solutions.
Interaction Design Foundation	🔴 HCI 🌀 DTech	The Interaction Design Foundation is the biggest online design school globally.
List of Emerging Technologies	🌀 DTech
Liverpool Science Fiction Studies Online	🟡 Sci-fi	Liverpool Science Fiction Studies Online combines the internationally-renowned print series Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies and Constellations with the extensive back archive (1959-2004) of the world's first SF journal, Extrapolation.
Living Infrastructure Field Kit	🔘 Arch	Living infrastructure is a practice of bringing together built, natural, and social systems in ways that help people and places thrive. This approach is based on the idea that the built and natural features of a place, along with its social and cultural fabric, can all work together instead of separately or in opposition to each other. This connectedness makes a place feel vital and alive — and helps keep it that way, even as things change. In other words, living infrastructure creates resilience.
Looking Glass	🟣 SC	Founded in 2014, we’re headquartered in Brooklyn, NY with additional operations in Hong Kong. Back in 2018, we launched the world’s first desktop holographic dev kit. In 2020, we launched Looking Glass Portrait, the first personal holographic display. And during the summer of 2022 we announced the world's largest holographic display, the Looking Glass 65" and the first way to share holograms on the internet on our Looking Glass Blocks platform. Yeah, we really love holograms.
Meta for Developers News	🟣 SC
Metafuture	🔵 FS 🟠 Des-fi	An educational think tank that explores alternative and preferred futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them
MIT Reality Hack	🟣 SC	MIT Reality Hack is a community-run XR hackathon held at MIT co-hosted by a team of community volunteers (alumni, friends, and others) with the Reality Hack Organization 501-c3 and a student org VR/AR@MIT. We all share a common goal: to educate, empower and enable people to be part of the XR industry.
Mona	🟣 SC	Mona's mission is to empower people around the world to create, collect, and share the highest quality immersive experiences on the blockchain, growing the Open Metaverse.
Postphenomenology	🟤 PP	Resources about postphenomenology curated by Stacey O. Irwin, Professor, Millersville University of Pennsylvania, and Robert Rosenberger, Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Primer	🟠 Des-fi 🔵 FS	A framework for crafting futures
Presence Platform by Meta	🟣 SC	Presence Platform unlocks innovation so you can build the future for how we work, create, connect and play on Meta Quest devices.
Protopia Futures - Framework	🟠 Des-fi 🔵 FS	Within the Protopia Framework, however, we position that there is no singular “future” trajectory but rather a vast scope of many alternative futures. It is continuously shaped not just by our actions but also by our inactions and our apathy. Hence, we consciously choose to use the plural “futures”, instead of singular “future”, throughout this text. Our work is always meant to engage the plurality of future possibilities — not a singular thread but rather the ever shifting perimeter of the probable, possible, plausible, and, most importantly, desirable.
Protopian Futures	🟠 Des-fi 🔵 FS	A Protopian future was first coined by Kevin Kelly, the co-founder of Wired Magazine, He served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. Above all protopia is a future better than today — but not perfect. Protopain societies are ones which slowly and steadily improve the quality of life of their inhabitants.
Robert Boyle's Wish-list for Science	🔵 FS 🌀 DTech	Robert Boyle wish-list from 360 years ago.
Science fiction and its predictions for architecture	🟡 Sci-fi 🔘 Arch 🔵 FS	The effort to visualize the setting of the plot is often as extensive as the effort put in devising the storyline itself. Hence, when science fiction offers predictions on what the future would be like, it subtly hints to foretell the future of architecture and cities too.
Sci Futures	🟡 Sci-fi 🔵 FS	by Ari Popper, Formerly President, North America at BrainJuicer (System One), Ari came up with the idea of SciFutures in a sci-fi writing class at UCLA. .
Sentiers	🔵 FS 🌀 DTech	A carefully curated weekly newsletter finding signals of change and imagining better futures in technology, society, and culture.
Signs of Change - A Design Fiction Workshop at SxSW 2024	🟠 Des-fi 🔵 FS	By Near Future Laboratory, Julian Bleecker. Imagining possible futures through street signs! The street sign is a fantastic Design Fiction archetype. It's an artifact that is quite legible and recognizable as an indicator of social norms, rules, policy and thereby a small signal of a culture.
Snapdragon Spaces	🟣 SC	The Snapdragon Spaces™ platform empowers developers to unlock the full potential of wearable XR using industry-leading technology, a cross-device SDK, and an open ecosystem.
Solarpunk Futures	🟠 Des-fi 🔵 FS	Solarpunk Futures is a storytelling game where players imagine the pathways to a desirable world from the perspective of a utopian future. Players use a deck of cards to remember Ancestors and work together using Tools and Values to overcome a set of real-world Challenges. Through dialogue and collaborative worldbuilding, collective and visionary narratives emerge of a new society, along with plausible scenarios for how to get there.
Spacetop - The World's First AR Laptop	🟣 SC	We are Sightful, a rapidly growing company committed to moving AR beyond the hype and to create solutions that are immediately valuable and intuitive, and an essential part of our working lives. Our first product, Spacetop, is a revolutionary new category of personal computer that takes the traditional laptop and completely reimagines it. Powered by our unique AR operating system, we create a massive virtual workspace that functions as a private, personal and portable home office.
Spatial Computing	🟣 SC
Spatial Computing Research at Weill Cornell Medicine	🟣 SC
SpeculativeEdu	🟠 Des-fi	SpeculativeEdu is an educational, project funded by ERASMUS+, the European Union programme for education, training, youth, and sport, with the aim of strengthening speculative design education by collecting and exchanging existing knowledge and experience whilst developing new methods in the field of speculative design.
Speculative Nematode Workshop	🔘 Arch 🟠 Des-fi	Speculative Nematode [in Istanbul]: Oddly possible narratives for living together Workshop in September, 2022 at Istanbul Technical University.
Stereoscopy: the birth of 3D technology	🟣 SC	Discover stereoscopy, pioneered by Professor Charles Wheatstone FRS in 1838 and developed by successive Fellows of the Royal Society.
Strategic Science Fiction Cards	🟡 Sci-fi	The perfect tool for anyone interested in connecting the dots between technology and humanity to help prompt futuristic ideas.
Tangible Utopias	🟣 SC 🔵 FS 🟠 Des-fi	Tangible utopias is groundbreaking VR franchise immersing the viewer as a first-person into an Odyssey of potential future city scenarios, inspired by the imagination of children worldwide.
The Design Futures Initiative	🟠 Des-fi 🔵 FS
The Philosophy of Neurologically True Reality (And Sensoryfield Computing)	🟣 SC	by Rony Abovitz, the founder of Magic Leap
The Thing From The Future	🔵 FS 🟠 Des-fi	The Thing From The Future is an award-winning imagination game by Situation Lab that challenges players to collaboratively and competitively describe objects from a range of alternative futures.
Three.js	🟣 SC	Three.js is a 3D library that tries to make it as easy as possible to get 3D content on a webpage.
Using Futures Thinking for a more impactful UX strategy	🔵 FS	The practice of UX research is evolving. While traditional user research is great at evaluating what’s already been done, it is terrible at helping us imagine what future opportunities or possibilities could be. Hindsight becomes 20/20, and foresight becomes blurry at best.
Time's Up	🔵 FS 🟠 Des-fi	Time's Up investigates the possibilities of haptic interactive human scale immersive environments. As a laboratory for the composition of experimental situations, we create narrative spaces, especially in the context of constructing experiential models of possible futures and building physical narratives that explore contemporary and emerging sociopolitical issues.
Time Search	🟠 Des-fi 🔵 FS	I am TimeSearch, a future news search service that envisions a sustainable and thriving future through the lens of emerging technologies and social change.
Virtual Design Fiction Walkshop in Gather Town	🟠 Des-fi 🔘 Arch	Workshop, 2021
Volograms	🟣 SC	Our mission is to bring reality capture closer to everyone, making content creation for AR and VR as simple as recording a video.
VR/AR Fundamentals	🟣 SC	A series of six weekly pieces on Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality “fundamentals” by Michael Naimark.
What can we learn from Don Ihde?	🟤 PP	Don Ihde and four relations
World's Fair	🔵 FS	We believe that the future can be incredible for everyone — if we build it. The World's Fair Co. is a non-profit startup on a mission to inspire hope for this future by building the next great World's Fair.
Yarın Çok Geç	🔘 Arch 🔵 FS	A catalog project focused on climate crisis, sustainabilitym, and natural disasters by Yapı Kataloğu
XR Prototyping	🟣 SC	by Mark Billinghurst