notthisbodyTue, Dec 8, 2009 Chris, thanks for a great overview of the current state of AR. And you touch the base of it...
what happens when you and the people around you are each having very different experiences of "reality"? What happens to the commons when there are 500 different augmented versions? What happens to community and society when the common reference point for everything - the very environment in which we exist - is malleable and fluid and gated by permissions and access layers or overwrought with annotations competing for our attention? What social gaps could arise? What psychological ailments? Or perhaps more realistically, what happens when a small class of wealthy westerners begin to redraw the world around them?
seems to me we definitely need a way of connecting these different experiences. Tim Berners Lee is behind the Linked Data Movement, which is linking ontologies into a meta-ontology. We also need to connect our subjective ontologies and ideologies to start identifying form constants in human interactions, patterns of actions, and revealing misconceptions & contradictions.
there will be many other realities lived in than this one, we can gather, mobilize as communities as the consensus reality breaks down, and enable action around common visions.
Chris, thanks for a great overview of the current state of AR. And you touch the base of it...
seems to me we definitely need a way of connecting these different experiences. Tim Berners Lee is behind the Linked Data Movement, which is linking ontologies into a meta-ontology. We also need to connect our subjective ontologies and ideologies to start identifying form constants in human interactions, patterns of actions, and revealing misconceptions & contradictions.
there will be many other realities lived in than this one, we can gather, mobilize as communities as the consensus reality breaks down, and enable action around common visions.
Aye, there's the rub :)
thanks for the great post.