The core insight, in my eyes at least, of the Dynamicland project is that a projector + a camera is more interesting for deploying computation in a manner that

The core insight, in my eyes at least, of the Dynamicland project is that a projector + a camera is more interesting for deploying computation in a manner that permeates the physical world than screens. Weiser’s vision [0] could not see beyond the boundaries of the display and unnecessarily constrained itself as a result. But we have cheap megapixel CCDs and projectors now (and the GPU power to get something useful out of “neural network” systems, although I’m not sure whether Dynamicland makes much use of that) and it enables interactions that were unthinkable with a regular two-dimensional display. And then it turns out that such a system works really well with more constructivist approaches to computer supported learning and collaboration, and the Dynamicland team is doing a very solid job at developing that too. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20180210180104/http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/SciAmDraft3.html https://web.archive.org/web/20180210180104/http://www.ubiq.c...