My mate Lucy Tcherniak has just mastered her most recent piece of work, for consumer tech giants Philips and their Wi-fi enabled lighting range Hue – which are remote control light bulbs that can augment the mood of a room via your mobile phone: The blurb: Discover just some of the millions of ways to use […]
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Locked in a Vegas Hotel Room With a Phantom Flex
Great imagery, awesome sound production – Locked in a Vegas Hotel Room with a Phantom Flex
Living in the Future
“Back when I was a boy, I bought a children’s book at my town’s library book sale called “2010: Living in the Future” by Geoffrey Hoyle. Written in 1972, it had been withdrawn from the library’s collection by the mid-80s, when I picked it up. I’ve somehow managed to hang onto it for 25 years […]
Applying Benjamin
AR technology grants virtual objects presence in physicality. This is a concept ripe with potential for academic study. Baudrillardian thought states that we would seek to assign these objects similar values to other, real world objects. The School of Economy offers the truth that scarcity creates value. Our physical, tangible world is finite, but The […]
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Abstract
This series addresses the development and emergence of a new media technology known as Augmented Reality. I hold the view that this is a culturally significant innovation that holds implications for the user in society. My discussion reaches a depth of analysis not yet met by contemporary media theorists, but I employ previous academic thought […]
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