[-empyre-] AR musings in Leonardo Electronic Almanac

[Alan Sondheim]

[the same for this - apologies if duplicated - Alan]


Hi - The Leonardo article is excellent; the reason SL faded, however, is
that it didn't fulfill the dream of virtual life - most people are used to
games, and SL has no teleology at all. I've thought of it as reverse AR,
since the porosity goes the other way - portals into real spaces, and
evidence of those spaces projected into SL. I think Garrett Lynch is a good
example of this.
In your other email you write: "The hype about AR comes exactly from the
fact that a device that everybody enjoys and likes to have (smartphone,
iPad), and is a symbol of being (let's face it) wealthy and hip, is ALSO
capable of doing this new and cool technological thing." Below, you describe
it as "chic."

Are these people then your audience? 

- Alan

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Tamiko Thiel <tamiko at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
       Hi Y'all,

       Leonardo Electronic Almanac just published an article of mine
       with musings on the "urge to augment," plus comments on some of
       the augments I've been able to encounter in person.

       These website has the abstract, and a link to a pdf with the
       full article:
http://www.leoalmanac.org/index.php/lea/entry/cyber-animism_and_augmented_d
       reams/

       take care, Tamiko


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