Creating large-scale interactive artworks taught Amir the power of AR storytelling and the pains of XR development. While the outcomes could change the way artists and viewers engage and collaborate, the hand-coded nature of XR tech at the time was a blocker for many artists.
So, as you do, Amir founded ABXR Engine (https://www.abxrengine.com/), a no-code solution that gives artists a full kit of dynamic AR tools to build without limits. (As their journey in AR started working to empower creatives with XR tools, this is the kind of innovation Nathan C gets pretty excited about.)
This conversation from AWE EU in October 2022, takes on a whole new dimension with the current buzz about artificial intelligence as Baradaran astutely predicts the rapid adoption and everyday use of AI tools. He then goes on to describe how thin, targeted applications of AI (text, image, sound, motion, etc.) will soon be joined together, using AR, to create a âspatial intelligence.â
Spatial AI is personalâknows how to listen like you do, see like you do, and move through the world like youâand can help you translate and navigate the day to day in rich new ways.
For Amir, these âstorytellersâ (isnât that what some cultures call deities?) have the potential to give agency back to the people in ways that could rework our relationships with techâand even the toxic power dynamics of web 2.0 capitalism. Sounds promising!