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What is the author referring to by "Hypercard in the world"? Does he mean an IoT version of Apple's old HyperCard system? I didn't quite understand the tech sta

• germinalphrase 9y ago
  (Unfortunately) they don't explain much about it. westoncb's comment downthread points to another resource digging into B. Victor's recent work.
• Glench 9y ago
  From the article: > The theme was to make hybrid physical/digital games using a prototype research system Bret Victor and Robert Ochshorn had made called Hypercard in the World. This system was like an operating system for an entire room — it connected cameras, projectors, computers, databases, and laser pointers throughout the lab to let people write programs that would magically add projected graphics and interactivity to physical objects. In the same way Smalltalk was about virtual objects computing and communicating with each other through a common environment, Hypercard in the World was about physical objects computing and communicating with each other. The next iteration of the system is even called Realtalk as a play on "Smalltalk" but for the physical world. There were lots of other demos made in this system, but those will be published at some later point...maybe.