[-empyre-] Augmented reality as public art, mobile location based monuments and virtual memorials

[Rob Myers]

On 20/04/11 13:07, John Craig Freeman wrote:
> 
> With respect xDxD, This is a bit like arguing that artists should
> write there own web browsers rather than use Mosaic in 1991, or perhaps
> I am misunderstanding. Of course artists should be using commercial
> augmented reality browsers. Their wide spread use is establishing
> standards and protocols which will provide an infrastructure for the AR
> of the future.

The problem is that these are currently immature products relative to
previous AR technology. They are also proprietary software, which limits
artists ability to address their limitations.

If artists wish to do anything that these still-emerging platforms will
not let them do, they need to get involved in the production of software
rather than merely the consumption of it.

They won't need to produce an OS, a graphics toolkit or a hardware
platform to do so because smart phones now provide one. But if they wish
to do more than advertise the nascent comodification of AR, they will
need to get their hands dirty with at least a little bit of code or
collaborate with those who are doing so.

- Rob.

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