Immersive Futures project 2026

About Fridolin Wild's "Vision 2035" Circle of Scholars' workshop

Category 1: 2026 Social Challenges Cards

Societal Challenge Cards document broad social, economic, ecological, and political conditions th...

SC: Sustainability

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SC: Digital Wellbeing

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SC: Equity

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SC: Care, Culture, & Community

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SC: Research Integrity Under Pressure

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SC: Global Inequality

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SC: Truth & Epistemic Trust

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SC: Responsible AI

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SC: Resilience

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SC: Employment Upheaval

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SC: Ethics, Privacy, & Bodily Autonomy

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SC: Accessibility

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Category 2: 2026 Future Technology Possibility

Future Technology Possibility Cards describe technologies plausible within a ten-to-twenty year h...

old template...Flow Machines: Adaptive XR via Biometrics

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FT: Agentic AI

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FT: Surveillance-by-Design XR

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FT: Flow Machines and Adaptive XR

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FT: Invisible Computing

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FT: Conversational Presence

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FT: Expanding XR Attack Surface

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FT: Democratized World-Building

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FT: Real Time Generative 3D

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FT: Wearables Everywhere

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FT: Reality Governance

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FT: Open XR Futures

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FT: MultiModal Intelligence

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FT: AI without AGI

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FT: Horizon Scanning as Infrastructure

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FT: Swarm Intelligence

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Category 3: Historical Technology Shift cards

Historical Technology Shift Cards document technology transitions that have already occurred and ...

HT: Generative AI Enters the World

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HT: AI inside Immersion

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HT: Natural Embodied Interaction

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HT: Spatial Platforms replace Flat Systems

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HT: Multimodal Learning Analytics

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HT: Mobile Fidelity at Scale

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HT: Post-hype Reality Check

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HT: Affordable XR goes Mainstream

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Category 4: Educational Transformation Cards

Educational Transformation Cards describe structural shifts in how education is organized, delive...

ET: Hybrid is the New Default

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ET: Assessment is in Crisis

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ET: From Cohorts to Personal Trajectories

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ET: Teacher Capability is the Bottleneck

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ET: Inclusion is No Longer Optional

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ET: The Cost Crisis Meets the Tech Promise

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ET: Digital Literacy is now Spatial

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