Alan,
For me, inequality in access is a recurring concern. I think that AR
is appealing because it formalizes folk practices. I think the poor
man's (or woman's) AR can be seen in virtually any bathroom stall, bus
stop, high school desktop, etc.: graffiti. But even graffiti is a
material
Hi All,
In reading Alan's post, specifically his questions how does one break the
enclave - the sense of privilege AR implies and Is there a technology that
doesn't require technology -- I immediately thought about a project that I
posted on Networked_Performance
If we want to extend this enclave, we need to devise ways of making AR work
on low-spec mobile phones. Smartphones may still be the purvey of the
wealthy, but the vast majority of people in this world own some form of
mobile phone. (I've read accounts by cultural anthropologist Jan Chipchase
of
I read somewhere recently (probably the Guardian) that iPhone and other
smartphone owners tend not to be high percentile earners and are amongst the
most in debt sector of the population. A case of people spending money they
do not have on things they do not need.
Best
Simon
On 11/04/2011
I was fascinated by the link Paul Brown sent in,
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/04/new-augmented-reality-app-unle.html
- because of the creativity unleashed; the iphone, whatever, becomes an
active tool instead of a receiver. I have two questions, occasioned in
part by my
Nice work REFF. Please see
http://virtaflaneurazine.wordpress.com/virta-flaneurazine/ for more drug
induced reinvention of reality.
On Apr 9, 2011, at Sat, Apr 9, 10:00 PM,
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When we happily met Patrick in Rome, we went for a shopdropping run in
