We Need to Talk About Space

We talk too little about space. The era of static guardians and gliding around with controllers is behind us. An XR headset, as John Nilsson once explained to me, is both a ping pong racket and a tennis racket — but if you want to play tennis, you need to find larger spaces. Not necessarily as big as a tennis court, but definitely bigger than a broom closet.

This is new and will take time to adapt to. A clear example is when I visit new clients and find that a standard meeting room has been booked. These rooms can be quite spacious, yet they often have a large table in the middle that eats up the best usable space. As soon as I step into the building, I start scouting for good XR areas. And there are always suitable spaces; I’ve never encountered a situation where it was a problem. Often, it ends up being the corridor outside the meeting room, the lunchroom, or the lobby.

Isn’t it a bit beautiful in a way? That we can bring life to otherwise dead spaces or thoroughfares. The picture I’m sharing is from when I visited my daughter’s school during fall break and ran a Mars experience for 50 eight-year-olds. I just had to push a few tables aside, and then Christer Fuglesang could guide them down to the Martian surface and back again! When more children showed up than expected, I set up two more headsets, one in the corridor outside. It worked perfectly and was incredibly rewarding to see all the newly minted astronauts brimming with confidence after completing their mission.

So to summarise the essence of the article and the image: To travel to space, you first need to create some space...

PS: If you want to go to Mars, I will add the link in the commentary.