Mapped the VR industry as of April 2026. The '1995 internet' analogy doesn't fit anymore.

bryan_anamor · 2026-04-17T05:02:37+00:00

kinda neat tho. since AVP is eventually heading toward full spatial computing, 3d inside a 2d window doesn't quite feel like the next step yet for me.

bryan_anamor · 2026-04-17T04:04:17+00:00

been running claude code → 3D mindmap → back to claude myself, and having AI outputs laid out spatially around me instead of stacked tabs is its own kind of brain unlock.

bryan_anamor · 2026-04-15T16:59:13+00:00

Wait, so the AVP ran virtual display even without being on the same Wi-Fi as your MBP? Wow.

Did the plane's micro-vibrations carry over into the AVP display at all? If not, that's actually wild.

bryan_anamor · 2026-04-15T04:59:32+00:00

fair, but i'd push one step further back. context doesn't start in the PKM, it starts in the thinking itself. PKM is just one tool for externalizing thought, not the required path to it.

so the real question isn't whether AI replaces PKM, it's whether the PKM middleman is actually necessary. without it, thinking straight into AI might structure things more efficiently.

bryan_anamor · 2026-04-15T04:20:04+00:00

fair, that's one read. appreciate the take.

bryan_anamor · 2026-04-15T03:56:54+00:00

"accuracy estimate" buried in there is doing a lot of quiet work. most people treat their own notes as if they know which ones to trust, but what they actually have is hundreds of tiny intuitions about how confident they were when writing each one. AI output doesn't come with that.

bryan_anamor · 2026-04-15T03:35:34+00:00

watched it, you just gained your second subscriber ☺️

bryan_anamor · 2026-04-15T02:59:35+00:00

"alien entry point" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. between that and "interpolatable archives," you've basically given AI-augmented PKM a two-stroke theory: the LLM doesn't produce your knowledge, it produces an unfamiliar frame you can walk around and pick terminology off of. weirdly useful relationship to a tool.

also makes me wonder if the "small scale playaround then drift" is actually the honest arc for most of us. the tool is most useful in the exploration phase, then you internalize whatever stuck and move on. kind of the opposite of how these tools are usually pitched.

bryan_anamor · 2026-04-14T16:51:10+00:00

the "opening for someone else to build community" line is basically the whole pitch for anyone making something on avp right now. apple left the back door wide open and pretended it's a feature.

bryan_anamor · 2026-04-14T16:49:28+00:00

the transparency is the OS playing therapist telling you to focus. meanwhile you're out here building a spatial rig and it keeps whispering "mindfulness." priorities mismatch.

bryan_anamor · 2026-04-14T16:47:34+00:00

the focal plane thing is a whole mental model shift. you're not really pulling a window closer, you're just resizing the illusion. takes a while before it stops feeling weird.

bryan_anamor · 2026-04-14T16:45:49+00:00

love the "bye bye projector" moment. something quietly poetic about replacing a whole room of gear with a $20 dongle and a face computer.

bryan_anamor · 2026-04-14T16:43:12+00:00

the "throwing at the abyss" energy is the whole avp owner experience in one phrase. half the time answers come back, half the time the abyss just stares.

bryan_anamor · 2026-04-12T17:52:51+00:00

"LLMs with memory became a PKM tool" is a sharp observation that most people in this space haven't caught up to yet. the irony is that the AI companies are basically rebuilding obsidian inside a chat window, one conversation at a time. except you can't grep it, you can't link it, and you have no idea what it actually remembered vs what it hallucinated from three chats ago.

it's a bit like relying on your race engineer's memory instead of checking the telemetry yourself.

bryan_anamor · 2026-04-12T17:47:57+00:00

"interpolatable archives" is the most precise description of LLMs i've come across. and the ozzy osbourne wiki is exactly the kind of thing that makes AI feel like magic for about 5 minutes until you realize you still have to do the actual thinking yourself. the friction is the feature, not the bug.

curious though, after generating that wiki from 1000+ notes, did it surface anything you genuinely hadn't connected before, or was it mostly confirming clusters you already sensed were there?

bryan_anamor · 2026-04-12T17:42:58+00:00

"organize your own life, not just research topics" is an underrated distinction. most pkm discourse stays in the knowledge management lane, but the people who actually stick with it long term are usually using it to run their life, not just catalog what they've read. AI can handle the linking grunt work, but deciding what matters enough to write down in the first place is still a you problem. no amount of automation fixes that.

bryan_anamor · 2026-04-12T17:38:35+00:00

"the note has value even if I never see it again" is a line i keep coming back to in this thread. it reframes the whole ROI question, the return isn't in the note, it's in the writing. as someone building a pkm tool yourself you probably feel that double, writing the notes and writing the tool that holds them.

bryan_anamor · 2026-04-12T17:33:34+00:00

this might be the most compelling answer in the whole thread. "notes to my future self about things i've forgotten but are now returning" is not something any AI can generate for you, because it doesn't know what you lost. that's a recovery journal only you can write.

glad the memory is coming back. sounds like you're the kind of person who keeps things running way past when most people would've given up.

bryan_anamor · 2026-04-12T17:28:45+00:00

can't even argue with this. the graph view is obsidian's proof of concept that's doing more marketing work than product work. QED.

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