LLMs meet XR: revisiting Bolt's 1980 Put-That-There demo to rethink spatial computing
twi_mar · x · 2026-09-04
- The author responds by pointing to multimodal XR prototypes built with Riccardo Bovo.
- Quoting an earlier thread, he revisits Richard Bolt's iconic 1980 "Put-That-There" demo — a landmark proving computers could understand ambiguous, multimodal commands in context, half a century ahead of its time.
- Argument: modern computing is still trapped in direct manipulation (dragging windows); true spatial computing requires context awareness plus intent-driven spaces.
- LLMs attached directly to an XR sensor stack are the best path forward, per research led by Riccardo Bovo.
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