[-empyre-] audiences

[christina mcphe]

Speaking of audiences and augmented reality,,,, literally right now in  
Copenhagen, there is a LIVE stream of Net-Cultures: Mobility and  
Location in Social Networks, talking about Freeman's Border Deaths  
project..
check it out here  for the live stream-- http://itu.dk/networkculture/
all the skeletons of the migrants who died projected in to MOMA's  
courtyard...

also an AR recreation of the "Goddess of LIberty"  which is now on  
smart phones in geo-location so if you are in Tienamen Square you can  
see it.  ...

xc
On Apr 28, 2011, at 2:11 AM, Tamiko Thiel wrote:

>
>> From: Alan Sondheim<sondheim at gmail.com>
>>
>> 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?
>
> Dear Alan,
>
> I want my audience to be as large as possible, given realistic  
> restrictions on access to technology, price, etc.
>
> Realistically, PCs only became widespread and cheaper once they  
> became "chic" in a broad layer of western society, and cellphones  
> only became widespread and therefore cheap enough to permeate to  
> less wealthy parts of society and the world once they were "chic" in  
> a broad layer of western society.
>
> I do expect the same thing to happen to smartphones, and academics  
> alone will never drive down the price point.
>
> Yours, Tamiko
>
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