Caity Croft

Immersive Generative Spatial Intelligence Tech

[Caity Croft @caitycroft]

OWN THE NARRATIVE —> WIN THE FUTURE

Just posted my latest thesis on Substack and Story-Driven Simulation as the unlock for Humanity we’ve been looking for. 🖖
Read it here: 👉 https://t.co/4FvTHZ2OTT

[Caity Croft @caitycroft]

I spent 2 years living across New York, Berlin, and Shanghai

Learning systems design and building interactive systems at the intersection of AI, and Spatial Computing, and immersive media

From designing a musical AR (Augmented Reality) experience outside the museum on The Bund in Shanghai, to Physical Computing and building myself a MIDI controller and performing livewith it, to learning Virtual Production and animating avatars with my own movements wearing a MoCap suit, to designing an interactive fashion project with @thekamikarras , to exploring the future of interactive audiovisual experiences using EEG (brainwave) and motion sensors as the primary inputs with @jasonjsnell , to learning @touchdesigner and meeting @blankensmithing @_lucas_gutierrez_ as mentors, and working on so many more incredible projects, it is and was the kind of hands-on, fast-paced, rapid prototyping capabilities and energy I’m thrilled to come away with and continuously hone and tap into, even after school.

Grateful for the inspiring professors, friends, mentors, and collaborators, and the kind of environment that expands what you believe is possible 💜

@nyuniversity @nyushanghai @itp_nyu @imalowres.nyu
#technology #creativetechnology #spatial #interactive #immersivetechnology

[Caity Croft @caitycroft]

I burned out and almost walked away from music
Wrote a song to pull myself out of it
Flew to Mexico and found it again

It comes back. It always does.

“Walk Tall” coming soon

[Caity Croft @caitycroft]

SVALBARD SKI MARATHON.❄️Crossed the finish line at the ski marathon with with my parents cheering me on…. (....with barely any prior cross-country skiing experience😅, but it's amazing what happens when instincts kick in do-or-die style conditions)

So glad I said yes to this adventure.

I've always been fascinated by the Arctic (and Svalbard in particular after reading The Golden Compass series as a kid....)

One of those moments you hold onto forever. Endless gratitude to the Vold family for being the most incredible travel companions.
A memory I’ll carry for a lifetime. 💗✨🏔️

Music: our song “Open Air” @weareallyoursmusic

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.

He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.

When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.

Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.

The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.

Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.

The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.

That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

[Caity Croft @caitycroft]

Building a Spatial Systems Atlas @theworldlabs hackathon @a16z for real-world & fictional complex systems mapping & multi-world generation

Thanks to @drfeifei @chlassner @BenMildenhall @XRarchitect and the World Labs & a16z teams for hosting us - it was an amazing event. 🌐🌎🌏🔮

[Caity Croft @caitycroft]

@dmarcos thanks for having us! - it was a great time

[Caity Croft @caitycroft]

Orion’s Belt and many other constellations quite visible tonight

[𝐋.𝐘.𝐍 @lyn_beatz]

𝕲𝖒 𝕏

Shine with @grok Imagine

[Caity Croft @caitycroft]

I just published StoryOS: The Staging Server for Humanity https://t.co/itZkwPLrAM

[Caity Croft @caitycroft]

Created a Galactic World using @theworldlabs #Marble for a Spatial Cognition project I'm working on.
Exciting advancements!

[Caity Croft @caitycroft]

@ArthurMacwaters what about wielders of fire swords / fire katanas in addition to normal swords and VR swords

[Caity Croft @caitycroft]

🌟 We Won the SensAI Hackademy
SensAI Hackathon! — Best Upgrade to an Existing Project for Edgelord Samurai 🌟

Thrilled to share that our team won Best Upgrade to an Existing Project at the @SensAIHackademy Hackathon for Edgelord Samurai!

Huge gratitude to my incredible teammates — Richard @InnerBushido @harriswarren , @Olasile Abolade, and Noor — for the creativity, technical brilliance, and good energy that made this build so much fun.

And a heartfelt thank you to SensAI, @XRBootcamp , and @frontiertower for creating such an inspiring environment to experiment, learn, and push boundaries. The mentorship, the structure, and the community you’ve built make these hackathons feel like a launchpad for wild ideas. Thank you so much to @nigelhartman ᯅ @Ferhan_XRB Özkan @RachelDemant @Scobleizer Robert Scoble @Yağız Mungan @roangws 🤖 @XeniaBulatov @GregMadison @ Colin Lowenberg @ClovisVinant and all the other incredible mentors, jury, and fearless leaders who made it possible.

What we built

We created a mixed reality (MR/XR) multiplayer Fruit-Ninja-style party game, where players use a real katana handle mounted on a 3D-printed Quest controller casing. Using the new @Meta Meta PCA passthrough camera access, @opencvlive @OpenCVUniverse for object recognition, and @ExitGames Photon for co-location, we built a social MR experience where multiple players slice flying virtual objects together in the same physical space.

I’m proud of what our team pulled off in such a short time — and incredibly excited about where this tech can go next.

Congrats to all the teams who built amazing projects this weekend. Onward! ⚔️✨

Video uploaded to Youtube:
https://t.co/prG8jiXm0b

[Caity Croft @caitycroft]

@bradnecyk @Scobleizer very cool. What do you want said virtual being to accomplish, ideally? :)

[Caity Croft @caitycroft]

@ClovisVinant @_buildspace @_nightsweekends ✨🖖

[Caity Croft @caitycroft]

@SahilBloom ☝️

[Jon Edwards @edwards345]

Learning to be comfortable with being uncomfortable is a critical virtue.

[Caity Croft @caitycroft]

@ZachBDell Congrats Zach! Well done

[Caity Croft @caitycroft]

@Andercot ….what’s your favorite alloy?

[Caity Croft @caitycroft]

Playing jazz with the ever-unfolding now 🤌🤌

Being the person who sees all the timelines/threads of reality available in any moment, and pulls on the one that makes that moment most valuable/meaningful/enjoyable for the most people 😏

Self-reliance & acceptance of oneself & others’ perpetual evolution (and being that source of safety and warmth) is powerful 🤍

[Caity Croft @caitycroft]

@Andercot Caring not an iota about trivialities or being disingenuous.

Equanimity. Agency. Aura…et all