Virtual reality seems to be a completely played-out cliche as we approach the 2nd decade of the 21st century. However augmented reality is here. It is about to explode into the common culture with an intrusion that will make 70s NYC Subway graffiti seem tame. I first started thinking about the possibilities after reading William Gibson describe locative art in Spook Country. How appropriate for the visionary who brought us the harshest visions of cyberspace to be on the forefront of this new art form.
Augmented reality uses a computer and a camera to overlay digital items on top of reality. The interaction with these items is only limited by the programmer's imagination. Tonight, I had the two kids cut out patterned pieces of paper. We sat in front of my laptop with the iSite on. Holding up the patterned paper created over layed 'snowflakes' on our video stream and played different notes based on the which square was recognized. Try this--you won't regret it.
Once you've had some fun with this, if you are a paranoid cynic like me, you instantly see how this could proliferate out of control. Don't see it? Review the technology as used in advertising. Or Japanese Anime. Think about the player being on your cell phone, combine geo-location triggering with graphical triggering and everything in the current world could be over layed with multiple dimensions of art, games, or advertising. It's spooky, sexy, exciting. It feels like that first time I saw the pacific ocean waves breaking real-time on a web camera in 1995. The internet has only just begun to leave the prison of the computer and escape to our mobile devices. I can't wait to see what else the creative collective can do to entertain and enlighten us.
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Alex Rudloff (10:29 AM on Tue May 5, 2009)
the examples of this at SxSW were sick. Not just Augmented stuff, but the image recognition combined with it. Holding up an iphone in camera mode and clicking a mountain top to get the stats/name/history of that physical landmark.
That sort of stuff, mixed with augmentation, which with things like audio embedding of information of visual embedding of information, and some really really neat things become possible.
Creepy, perhaps, but possible ;)
OkinKun (9:03 PM on Sat Jul 11, 2009)
That's not even the half of what's possible. With advanced enough real-world-recognition, and photo-realistic graphics, combined with an HMD (head mounted display, which in a few years will be small enough and stylish enough, to be socially acceptable. It's likely it will plug into mobile devices with gps, which also handle processing.) literally anything is possible.
Anything that is possible to create in digital computer art, would be possible in the real world, and would feel so immersive and convincing, that our perception of reality will start to change rapidly after that.
Traditional education may start to come into question, as data would be so easily accessible, people wouldn't have to know as much from memory anymore. And at the same time, if that happens, we'll become too dependent on such a device.
If you want an interesting article to read, on the applications of such technology, And how it would link the internet to the real world, check out this:
http://www.servicentric.com/matt/ar.html
It's a good read, and the Applications part is incredible!
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