Anjan Katta

The core insight here was normal computer screens are artificial. They try to be, they're like a flashlight. They shine light in your eyes to stand out. That's great for Netflix and video games and making really overstimulating colors. But that's not how it works in nature. Everything in nature is reflective. you know, it's like a piece of paper, whatever, you're looking outside.

And so the point here is to make something that's more natural, that's reflective. And that's why a normal screen, you can't see it in the sun because it's trying to compete with nature. It's trying to make its flashlight bright enough that you could see it, but there's no chance versus sunlight. And that's why you can't see anything. Your screen's covered in glare.

And so the point here is to make something that's more natural, that's reflective. And that's why a normal screen, you can't see it in the sun because it's trying to compete with nature. It's trying to make its flashlight bright enough that you could see it, but there's no chance versus sunlight. And that's why you can't see anything. Your screen's covered in glare.

And so the point here is to make something that's more natural, that's reflective. And that's why a normal screen, you can't see it in the sun because it's trying to compete with nature. It's trying to make its flashlight bright enough that you could see it, but there's no chance versus sunlight. And that's why you can't see anything. Your screen's covered in glare.

But because we're a reflective display, we're in harmony with nature. So we're actually using the sunlight. So when you're outside, the sunlight is literally hitting this, reflecting off of that, and that's what you're able to see.

But because we're a reflective display, we're in harmony with nature. So we're actually using the sunlight. So when you're outside, the sunlight is literally hitting this, reflecting off of that, and that's what you're able to see.

But because we're a reflective display, we're in harmony with nature. So we're actually using the sunlight. So when you're outside, the sunlight is literally hitting this, reflecting off of that, and that's what you're able to see.

And I think that's the big philosophical change is how do you make technology that's more natural and in harmony with our nature and nature rather than trying to be artificial and overstimulating.

And I think that's the big philosophical change is how do you make technology that's more natural and in harmony with our nature and nature rather than trying to be artificial and overstimulating.

And I think that's the big philosophical change is how do you make technology that's more natural and in harmony with our nature and nature rather than trying to be artificial and overstimulating.

Yeah, people just assume the way iPhones and iPads look today, like that's the only way computers can look. But if you go back to the Xerox PARC days, kind of what we were saying before in the early days, there was actually two viable paths to computing.

Yeah, people just assume the way iPhones and iPads look today, like that's the only way computers can look. But if you go back to the Xerox PARC days, kind of what we were saying before in the early days, there was actually two viable paths to computing.

Yeah, people just assume the way iPhones and iPads look today, like that's the only way computers can look. But if you go back to the Xerox PARC days, kind of what we were saying before in the early days, there was actually two viable paths to computing.

One was this emissive-immersive displays, which you take it to its logical progression, and that's VR and AR from what we have now, which is maximally immersive, maximalist. And this other...

One was this emissive-immersive displays, which you take it to its logical progression, and that's VR and AR from what we have now, which is maximally immersive, maximalist. And this other...

One was this emissive-immersive displays, which you take it to its logical progression, and that's VR and AR from what we have now, which is maximally immersive, maximalist. And this other...

trajectory to computing has really kind of no one's really known about it it's not really the big one it's kind of withered this is it was called at the time com computing the basic idea was computers that just feel like analog objects but happen to have computational powers right so if you think of like in harry potter uh tom riddle's diary or the newspaper or the marauder's map

trajectory to computing has really kind of no one's really known about it it's not really the big one it's kind of withered this is it was called at the time com computing the basic idea was computers that just feel like analog objects but happen to have computational powers right so if you think of like in harry potter uh tom riddle's diary or the newspaper or the marauder's map

trajectory to computing has really kind of no one's really known about it it's not really the big one it's kind of withered this is it was called at the time com computing the basic idea was computers that just feel like analog objects but happen to have computational powers right so if you think of like in harry potter uh tom riddle's diary or the newspaper or the marauder's map

They just look like analog objects, like paper or books. But if you think about it, they're computational. They're magic. They're magical. And the point of computing is simply to animate things. Anima is like the word soul. It's to simply give a soul to analog objects to animate them. And that works.