Abstract

Infinite Screen is a speculative design project that explores how mixed reality can transform a room full of personal devices into a shared spatial workspace for small-team collaboration. In studios, classrooms, and meeting rooms, people routinely work with multiple laptops, tablets, phones, and large displays, yet most existing tools still treat collaboration as a single-person screen-sharing activity. As a result, teams struggle to maintain a coherent shared view of their work, spending significant time negotiating who presents, which device is connected, and where key information resides. This thesis investigates how a room-scale interface might orchestrate these scattered screens through an augmented reality (AR) layer that everyone can see. Infinite Screen proposes a mixed reality system in which nearby devices appear as spatially anchored nodes, and digital content can be pulled out of individual screens, rearranged in space, and pinned onto a shared virtual wall or large display. The final speculative prototype presents a minimalist spatial UI layered on top of existing devices, illustrating how AR can choreograph shared content across a room. Infinite Screen demonstrates the potential of treating the room itself as an interface, suggesting new directions for mixed reality to support co-located, multi-device collaboration.

Publication Date

11-24-2025

Document Type

Thesis

Student Type

Graduate

Degree Name

Visual Communication Design (MFA)

Department, Program, or Center

Design, School of

College

College of Art and Design

Advisor

Mike Strobert

Advisor/Committee Member

Adam Smith

Campus

RIT – Main Campus

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