"Feels Like Paper!" is a series of prototypes about augmenting physical paper through AI. Various ML models, LLMs and a mixed reality headset are used to infuse physical paper and ink with properties of the digital world without compromising on their physical traits.

That is a dead butterfly [0] being reanimated, not a live butterfly flying

[0]: https://www.emilydamstra.com/please-enough-dead-butterflies/

From the article: Keichii Matsuda wrote a manifesto called "GODS". In it he describes an anaphor for augmented reality rooted in pagan animism. Unlike monotheistic Western approaches of interfacing artificial intelligence like ChatGPT or Siri, he advocates to leverage the possibility of augmented reality technologies to extend places and objects to populate the world with many different agents or "gods".

Author should read Daemon by Daniel Suarez written in 2006 that explores the idea of persistent and potentially powerful AR entities that interact with humans. It also loosely plays with the idea of AR somatic gestures acting as a mystical conduit for "primitive incantations" that have a physical affect on the real world.

> The intricate user experience of physical paper is unmatched...

So much this. Our hands have such a disproportionate concentration of nerves compared to the rest of our body, it's a shame current tech is soley focused on visual and audio interaction (with some very minor haptics).

A piece of paper or book has texture, heft, temperature, and stiffness which our hands pick up on and interpret so effortlessly we don't even consciously notice most of the time. I want those information channels in my user experience. Leafing through paper and books has so many nice features: the weight distribution tells you about how far along you are; fingers can flip pages or between chapters with high fidelity and high feedback for tracking the context switch; earmarking or sticky notes encode metadata that's immediately available when needed and hidden otherwise, without having to navigate layers of organization; the mechanics of splaying out multiple pages on a table is effortless compared to manipulating desktop windows; we even subconsciously pick up on non-uniformities in physical layout, which helps with disambiguation---i.e. noise is information.

Don't get me wrong, the interactivity of screens is wonderful, and e-ink dose bring one tiny nicety of paper to them, but I think we've barely even begun to tap into the possibilities of computer user interfaces.

FWIW, very terse languages like APL have the very nice property that programming with pen and paper actually feels natural, and you actually see it happen organically during discussions amongst array programmers. I think our current programming paradigms may be more constrained by HCI limitations than we realize.

The blur effect on the bottom of the page makes me feel like I'm constantly about to be price walled, haha

Sorry everyone. My hosting was not prepared for the amount of traffic while I migrate you can find the explorations on Twitter as well.

https://x.com/lukas_moro/status/1829487148078412019 https://x.com/lukas_moro/status/1838207092471050645 https://x.com/lukas_moro/status/1847299759603699906

Neat. https://dynamicland.org/ was the first thing I though of. Glad you referenced them on the page.

Anyone else getting ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH?

Whatever service you are using to host your website is not doing a very good job. Tiny <1kb assets are taking upto minutes to load.

IMHO, an interesting content a bit devalued by the presentation. Sometimes less is more (I know, nothing new)

Maybe getting hugged to death? Every image is blurry (I'm assuming this is pre-load optimization thing).

I love the lens effect at the bottom of the viewport and design of the site overall, really cool. Do you have a post about that effect - or is the best way to learn about it in the developer tools?

Seemed like it would be interesting to read, but I slammed the back button once the butterfly (wtf), blur effect, and thin grey font on a white background overwhelmed me.

Hi everyone, my traffic today is high so my website might become slower soon, because it surpasses my budget for "Fast Data Transfer" from Vercel. I am sorry for any inconvenience.

The project is currently available here. https://folio-2-0.pages.dev/paper

I really enjoy the "Mark & Comment" prototype. I want to read more on paper, but really don't like digitizing my notes. This flow seems much better for me. As AR devices improve, I expect this kind of low tech / high tech fusion will improve our experiences in novel ways.

I love this, I'm a big fan of this approach to technology. The weakness in this approach, for me, is that these examples seem to be mediated through AR glasses, which kind of undoes the analog-ness of the whole thing a bit.

For an (old!) example that doesn't use glasses, I'm reminded of https://www.topobox.co/

It is much better enjoyed in a desktop.

Love the butterfly!!!

Kudos for experimenting not just with AI but with webdesign. The hover preview is really neat too.

keep it up!

Thin gray text on an off-white background is not very easy to read, especially on mobile

That butterfly is very distracting. So much so that I didn't read the article.

I don't see a way to make it go away

I was a little confused at first but I really enjoyed this. Awesome work!

This Deployment is paused by the owner.

Your connection is working correctly.

Vercel is working correctly.

This site is lagging a bit, maybe turn down the blur effects on every single element

The blur effect is not good at all man. Just do a regular loading spinner or skeleton.

Tell me when there isn't a 1kg headset involved in any of this.