Third Space Signals / 8 entries / updated 21 October 2026
What is moving in the third space.
Computing after the phone and before the room. Each entry is dated, sourced and read by the studio. We say what is not known.
21 October 2026
Material
A touchscreen sleeve that survives the washing machine
NUS researchers publish a woven display of 54 light-emitting fibres: 96 by 54 pixels at 30 fps, 50 detergent washes and 1,000 bends.
Proof that cloth can carry a display. Low resolution, prototype only, and it still points the wrong way if all it does is show video.
Sovereign Magazine, on the Nature paper30 September 2026
Civic and consent
The OAIC publishes AI transparency fact sheets
Guidance ahead of the 10 December 2026 start of Australia’s automated decision-making transparency obligations (APP 1.7 to 1.9).
Notice has to be specific and written down before the system runs. Ambient systems need a consent surface that works in a room.
OAIC23 September 2026
Device and IO
Meta Ray-Ban Display goes international, with an agent that sees what you see
On sale in the UK and Canada from 23 September and in France, Italy and Germany from 13 October. Muse acts on what the wearer is looking at.
The post-screen era arrives on faces. The announcement covers price, styles and the agent, and says nothing we could find about bystanders.
Meta28 August 2026
Civic and consent
Harvard JOLT Digest: agentic AI deserves a presumption of authorisation
Zefang Wu argues software agents acting for a user should be presumed authorised, with the Perplexity cases as the live test.
We take no view on the law. The design question is who said the agent could do that, and how anyone nearby would know.
Harvard JOLT Digest12 August 2026
Device and IO
OpenAI and Jony Ive hold to a 2027 ship date
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports a first device still expected to be shown in 2026: a screen-free companion for the pocket.
A pocket bet against Meta’s face bet. Both are carried devices, and neither is ambient in the sense Weiser meant.
AI Weekly, citing Bloomberg29 April 2026
Light
Looking Glass wins SID Display of the Year
The Hololuminescent Display offers glasses-free depth in millimetre-thin panels at 16, 27 and 86 inches.
The screen becomes a sheet. It is a materials story first and an interface story second.
Looking Glass4 February 2026
Civic and consent
Bunnings wins in part at the Tribunal, and still loses on notice
The Administrative Review Tribunal set aside parts of the Privacy Commissioner’s 2024 finding but affirmed breaches of APP 1 and 5, and treated about 4.17 milliseconds of retention as collection.
Generic notices and no documented risk assessment were not enough. A banner at the door does not meet a norm broken in four milliseconds.
Clayton Utz5 January 2026
Home
mui Board Gen 2 and a Spatial AI service without cameras
A Matter-compatible wood board with a Calm Tech Institute certification, and a CES service that senses movement by millimetre-wave radar with local processing. Commercial launch is targeted for late 2026.
Calm as a product category. The privacy claim in the release has no detail behind it yet.
Yanko Design and mui LabMethod
Signals are chosen for what they change about where intelligence lives and who is asked. Dates are the date of the source. Where a claim comes from a summary rather than a primary source, the entry says so. Corrections welcome at hello@aerithic.com.