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Ar, or augmented reality, is the next big thing. As opposed to Vr, virtual reality, which completely conjures environments, Ar enhances your environment, adding elements instead of fabricating the entire conceit. Think Pokemon Go. What’s just percolating to the surface now will be everywhere in five years’ time, bringing with it new ways of interacting with technology and each other through technology, not all of which are going to be good. After all, if social media has demonstrated anything about society, it’s that we’re all just as comfortable interacting by a degree removed than we are in person, perhaps even more comfortable. Extrapolating off this, we’ve made “games” like The Sims, or Second Life, or No Man’s Sky that create entire universes into which people can disappear for extended periods of time.
The next logical leap from this, at...
Ar, or augmented reality, is the next big thing. As opposed to Vr, virtual reality, which completely conjures environments, Ar enhances your environment, adding elements instead of fabricating the entire conceit. Think Pokemon Go. What’s just percolating to the surface now will be everywhere in five years’ time, bringing with it new ways of interacting with technology and each other through technology, not all of which are going to be good. After all, if social media has demonstrated anything about society, it’s that we’re all just as comfortable interacting by a degree removed than we are in person, perhaps even more comfortable. Extrapolating off this, we’ve made “games” like The Sims, or Second Life, or No Man’s Sky that create entire universes into which people can disappear for extended periods of time.
The next logical leap from this, at...
- 3/25/2017
- by H. Perry Horton
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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