Dominique Wu

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AI Fellow supporting the California Community Colleges system. Faculty at Cañada College. Founder of LitStage. Spatial AI, XR, and emerging tech — decoded, in a personal capacity.

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Dominique Wu·October 4, 2026

AI Is Learning Its Way Around

Glasses, world models, and robots are starting to connect. Here’s what looks useful, what still looks early, and why educators should pay attention.

A pair of glasses. A robot carrying a warehouse tote. A digital room you can walk through. At first glance, they belong in different conversations. One is a gadget, one is a machine, and one is something you might build for a game. But underneath, they share…

An instructor wearing smart glasses guides a small wheeled robot lifting a wooden cylinder in a sunlit workshop, while the table and shelves blend into a glowing blue spatial model.

Spatial AI

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Dominique Wu·October 3, 2026·Energy

The School Bus Has a Second Shift

Parked electric school buses can support the grid, but the real opportunity includes chargers, local rules, and people trained to keep the whole system working.

Dominique Wu · October 3, 2026 · Energy & Mobility The yellow school bus is a wonderfully unglamorous place to look for the future. It has a route, a timetable, and…

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Dominique Wu·October 2, 2026·XR

The Public Domain Is a Creator’s Garage Sale

Old maps, museum images, and 3D scans can become thoughtful AR stories. Start with one object, keep its source notes, and make the difference between evidence and imagination visible.

An old street map. A wildly elaborate chair. A fossil you can rotate on your screen. There is a particular kind of creative energy that comes from finding something you…

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Dominique Wu·October 1, 2026·World Models

Your Next Classroom Has a Reset Button

World models could give students more chances to practice, question, and revise. A classroom-sized experiment, with real limits and access in mind.

Imagine this assignment: design a pop-up food pantry inside a community-college classroom. In this hypothetical class, one team builds a beautiful layout. Then they…

Editorial illustration of adult students reviewing a classroom food-pantry model, with overlapping room layouts showing a second design attempt.

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Dominique Wu·September 30, 2026·AI

25 AI Apps for Educators and Creators: Less Prep, More Possibility

A practical guide to 25 AI apps for creating lessons, readings, visuals, prototypes, and audio or video materials, with personal access options and useful prompts.

Ever sit down to prepare one class and somehow end up doing six jobs? You’re writing a lesson, building slides, finding examples, making a worksheet, checking…

A poster that says 25 apps for digital creators.

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Dominique Wu·August 26, 2026·AI

What If the Paycheck Became Optional?

Expertises will be nearly free, what can we do?

I teach a class where, every semester, someone asks me a version of the same question. Not “how does this work,” but “will this still be a job when I finish the class?”…

A camera with a sign that says AI on it.

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Dominique Wu·August 19, 2026·Emerging Tech

Robot Learning #1: Topology Dimensions and C-Space

What's Topology?

What is topology, and why is it important to learn for robotics? I first ran into topology while working on some 3D model projects. In Tripo AI there is a Topology…

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Dominique Wu·August 12, 2026·Spatial AI & Work

The Disappearing Middle: No Demand for Average

AI is compressing routine work from both ends. What survives is judgment, agency, and the tools of creation.

Adapted from my book-in-progress, No Demand for Average. AI Revolution and the Rise of Exponential Productivity “Nobody knows exactly what the job market looks like in…

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Dominique Wu·August 5, 2026·Education & AI

Why Education Is the Front Line

AI didn’t break college — it turned on the lights. From teacher to learning designer.

Adapted from No Demand for Average, Part I. AI Didn’t Break College—It Turned On the Lights The rise of AI has exposed just how broken the traditional education system…

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Dominique Wu·July 29, 2026·Spatial AI

What Is Spatial AI? (And Why It’s Not Just VR)

Spatial intelligence, XR AI, and the ecosystem forming where AI gives soul and XR gives embodiment.

Adapted from No Demand for Average — the chapter that names the field. What Is Spatial Intelligence? Spatial Intelligence represents AI’s emerging ability to see…

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Dominique Wu·July 22, 2026·Build Notes

Designing Finding Home

The thinking behind an adaptive XR simulation for person-centered dementia communication.

A design story from the XReality Pro studio: the thinking behind our adaptive XR simulation for dementia-care communication. An Adaptive XR Simulation for…

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Dominique Wu·July 15, 2026·Behind the Book

Why I’m Writing Spatial AI: Bridge the Gaps

The preface to my second book — and the idea this whole site is built on.

The preface to my second book, Spatial AI: Bridge the Gaps — and the reason this site exists. When I finished writing my first book, Spatial Design: Breaking the 2D…

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Dominique Wu·July 8, 2026·Immersive Design

Turn Any Assignment Immersive: A Worked Example

From flat prompt to spatial experience — one real assignment, rebuilt step by step.

From my faculty workshop, “Turn Your Curriculum Into an Immersive Experience” — a worked example, start to finish. Learning goals: Data collection and scientific…

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Dominique Wu·July 1, 2026·Procurement

The Educator’s Field Guide to EdTech Hype

Five questions that deflate a demo, and how to count the cost of a tool honestly.

The Educator’s Field Guide to EdTech Hype Education technology runs on a reliable cycle: a capability appears, a wave of products wraps it in classroom language, budgets…

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Dominique Wu·June 24, 2026·Faculty Development

Emerging-Tech Literacy for Faculty: The 90-Day On-Ramp

You cannot “keep up with technology.” You can build judgment. Here’s the schedule.

Emerging-Tech Literacy for Faculty: The 90-Day On-Ramp Nobody has time to “keep up with technology.” That phrase describes a treadmill, not a goal, and faculty are right…

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Dominique Wu·June 17, 2026·AI & Teaching

AI in the Classroom: Start With the Assignment, Not the Tool

A ten-minute exercise that turns the campus AI argument into a design decision.

AI in the Classroom: Start With the Assignment, Not the Tool Every campus conversation about AI eventually collapses into the same two camps: the enthusiasts who want a…

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Dominique Wu·June 10, 2026·XR & Pedagogy

Why Immersive Learning Sticks

A practitioner’s case for XR in the classroom — what immersion actually buys you, and what it doesn’t.

Why Immersive Learning Sticks: A Practitioner’s Case for XR in the Classroom There is a moment every XR educator knows. A student who has sat politely through slides…

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