Sidequest!: A Classic Cyberpsychedelic Text Adventure [Part 2]
<continued> Don Woods famously added the more “Tolkienised” aspects of the Colossal Cave Adventure game after rewriting it in 1977. Woods’ rewriting/recoding/versioning of the game is another...
View ArticleReality Shifting – Part 1: Rezzing
“There are many worlds and many realities in our universe. When one reality, or one world-view is superimposed on another, it is inevitable that social, economic and cultural problems arise....
View ArticleReality Shifting – Part 2: Reality is Cracking and Multiplying Around Us
“Yes, the university is a graveyard, but it is also a factory: a factory of meaning which produces civic life and at the same time produces social death. A factory which produces the illusion that...
View ArticleReality Shifting – Part 3: Queering New Media
…(a Tojolabal, two and a half years old, born during the first Intergalactic) is playing with a little car with no wheels or body. In fact, it appears to me that what Pedrito is playing with is a piece...
View ArticleA World of Photo: Digital Life Voyeurism
The User named “showmeurcock” from Kentucky does not respond to the picture I send of the space heater next to my desk. The User named “whispers” from California rates a picture of my feet three out of...
View ArticleAugmented Reality vs. Aura Recognition [1]
Part 1: Absurd Assumptions As many opinion leaders have noted, Augmented Reality (AR) may very well be the next evolutionary step in bringing the metadata of the web into our day-to-day lives. Some...
View ArticleAugmented Reality vs. Aura Recognition [2]
Part 2: Infinite Summer Afternoons Images from Initiations-Studies II by Panos Tsagaris with Kimberley Norcott Having summarily rejected the term augmented reality for the reasons listed here, I’ll now...
View ArticleAugmented Reality vs. Aura Recognition [3]
Part 3: The Crystal Ball Film Still, The Wizard of Oz. <continued from Part 2: Infinite Summer Afternoons> During the 1939 film version of The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy visits Professor Marvel and...
View Article“The Old Spice Guy”: Presencing & Synthapticism In Action
In 2008, several articles here at Augmentology examined the concepts of Synthetic Presencing and Synthapticism. Both concepts are part of a theoretical framework that attempts to explain developing...
View ArticleMeet Milo The Virtual Boy: Cloud-Sculpting The Mind of a Synthetic Human
This TED talk by Peter Molyneux: …demos Milo, a hotly anticipated video game for Microsoft’s Kinect controller. Perceptive and impressionable like a real 11-year-old, the virtual boy watches, listens...
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