AR Study Notes

For most people, the way we learn, or the work we do, all tend to fall in the 2D realm. Papers, word documents, web browsers. But our thoughts and ideas aren’t limited to 2D. Neither is the reality we live in.

And there is an indescribable magic you feel when you can physically walk around your ideas and examine them from all angles. To not be limited to the biggest piece of paper or whiteboard you can find, but instead be limited to the largest physical space you can find.

While I was studying concepts with lots of connections and relationships, I’d often wish there was a way I could see the information in a way that wasn’t limited to just what I could fit on a page or screen. And not just visibly see the information but to be able to physically move around the information and see them spread across me in 3D space.

So I decided to create Ether. A 3D study note-taking app using Augmented Reality. It allowed users to create and place notes and images wherever they wanted with ways to jump between different concepts or see them all in a big picture view. Concepts could be nested within each other, and visible connections could be formed between related concepts.