April 2007 Archives
A present futurist article
Augmented Reality is the science of conjoining of reality – hard solids that exist in space – with computer generated data that presents itself as a visual, interactive artifact in a real world space.
Basically it means that we will be adding to, building and defining our real living spaces with the additions of virtual, visible data generated by you or another. This visible data will be interactive in nature. As a Designer you will be creating your own environment and the environments of others.
One good example of AR is the Long Tail interview of Chris Anderson’s avatar, virtually conducted within the Second Life gaming environment, with Chris’s Avatar and the interviewer avatar on stage, and witnessed by an audience of avatars all connected to their human counterpart via home computers.
