Comments on: C’mon, Let’s Hug It Out Bitch http://newcurator.com/2009/07/cmon-lets-hug-it-out-bitch/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:54:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: james http://newcurator.com/2009/07/cmon-lets-hug-it-out-bitch/comment-page-1/#comment-1272 james Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:08:57 +0000 http://newcurator.com/?p=1248#comment-1272 Hi pete and thanks for your thoughts. I'm noticing many people developing apps for mobile AR stuff here in Amsterdam. The eyeball or glasses mode will take some serious dev. time , although enough crazy sci-fi fueled technologiest seem to remain enthused to be working on it. Here's a recent AR link to some visions and prototypes http://bit.ly/SLcvJ Hi pete and thanks for your thoughts. I’m noticing many people developing apps for mobile AR stuff here in Amsterdam. The eyeball or glasses mode will take some serious dev. time , although enough crazy sci-fi fueled technologiest seem to remain enthused to be working on it. Here’s a recent AR link to some visions and prototypes http://bit.ly/SLcvJ

]]> By: Pete http://newcurator.com/2009/07/cmon-lets-hug-it-out-bitch/comment-page-1/#comment-1263 Pete Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:23:18 +0000 http://newcurator.com/?p=1248#comment-1263 I don't think AR will be limited to phones. It will start that way because they are probably the most aggressively progressive forms of mass-market technology about. But I'm willing to accept AR coming through goggles, highly advanced contact lenses or, Hell, eyeball implants. When you think about human history being entwined with the level of technology, it creates a related anthropological system. When the most advanced thing is a plough, the society is agricultural. When the most advanced weapon in a yew longbow, war meant going to a field and taking pot shots at each other. Fast forward several hundred years, and our technology created an anthropolical "Other", known in the days of dial-up modem as "going online" (nobody really says that any more). There was a state of being in a place and being connected to this electronic non-place, made entirely of information and we all had fake handles to hide behind. Think what this did to art. Think about Stephenson's Snow Crash, where you put on googles to walk around the metaverse. Think about this first Matrix film: you live in a dusty dirty hole under the polluted Earth, but you're a plugged-in Online Superhero. These visions of the future kept the anthropological Other intact. What I see in AR in the combining of this world and this info-non-place. We wouldn't "go-online" or "log on", because this information would be right in front of our eyes, spread over reality. The plough made us farm. The combustion engine made us move. The atomic bomb made us talk a little harder. The Internet made us... well, lots of things... hopefully more in touch with information. Each technological age, a new culture change to adopt it. but this technology would organise a symbiosis. I honestly believe that an upsurge in AR would change our cultures to the point our children/grandchildren wouldn't recognise us at all, until our Facebook profile pops up over our heads. In short, I see it as the future. I don’t think AR will be limited to phones. It will start that way because they are probably the most aggressively progressive forms of mass-market technology about. But I’m willing to accept AR coming through goggles, highly advanced contact lenses or, Hell, eyeball implants.
When you think about human history being entwined with the level of technology, it creates a related anthropological system. When the most advanced thing is a plough, the society is agricultural. When the most advanced weapon in a yew longbow, war meant going to a field and taking pot shots at each other.

Fast forward several hundred years, and our technology created an anthropolical “Other”, known in the days of dial-up modem as “going online” (nobody really says that any more). There was a state of being in a place and being connected to this electronic non-place, made entirely of information and we all had fake handles to hide behind.

Think what this did to art. Think about Stephenson’s Snow Crash, where you put on googles to walk around the metaverse. Think about this first Matrix film: you live in a dusty dirty hole under the polluted Earth, but you’re a plugged-in Online Superhero. These visions of the future kept the anthropological Other intact.

What I see in AR in the combining of this world and this info-non-place. We wouldn’t “go-online” or “log on”, because this information would be right in front of our eyes, spread over reality. The plough made us farm. The combustion engine made us move. The atomic bomb made us talk a little harder. The Internet made us… well, lots of things… hopefully more in touch with information. Each technological age, a new culture change to adopt it. but this technology would organise a symbiosis.

I honestly believe that an upsurge in AR would change our cultures to the point our children/grandchildren wouldn’t recognise us at all, until our Facebook profile pops up over our heads.
In short, I see it as the future.

]]> By: james http://newcurator.com/2009/07/cmon-lets-hug-it-out-bitch/comment-page-1/#comment-1262 james Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:58:10 +0000 http://newcurator.com/?p=1248#comment-1262 enjoyed this post a lot! Also erhaps you can explain, elaborate on why you are so crazy about AR? I see its potential, but interface issues abound. What do you think would work? I certainly don't want to be holding my phone up to everything in the space. james enjoyed this post a lot! Also erhaps you can explain, elaborate on why you are so crazy about AR? I see its potential, but interface issues abound. What do you think would work? I certainly don’t want to be holding my phone up to everything in the space.
james

]]> By: Bruce http://newcurator.com/2009/07/cmon-lets-hug-it-out-bitch/comment-page-1/#comment-1246 Bruce Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:53:32 +0000 http://newcurator.com/?p=1248#comment-1246 spot on. spot on.

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