On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Eric Scoles <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Sal Armoniac <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ... i can see how Augmented Reality can improve business, but at the >> moment it doesn't grab me. I don't opine, however, that AR is going to fall >> to the wayside and VR will prevail. I don't see the future that clearly >> yet. >> >> > > Who does? And yet we speculate. > > I'll put this another way: the distinction between VR and AR will become > progressively more artificial. I don't see how that can *not* happen, > because the process is already well underway. E.g., everything Gibson > describes in *Spook Country* could be realized with off the shelf hardware > and software and not a ton of customization. The technology and the > infrastructure are already there; all that's wanting is for creatives to > have an incentive to build. The territory's free, it's all around us and > unclaimed. All somebody's got to do is find a map for it. Or make one. (How > many more cyberpunk cliches can I lay down here?) > It has to appeal to businesses first. I think a good sense of business trends allows one to see further than others what collections of media technology will thrive. All somebody has got to do is find a customer base for it. The wheel was invented by the Aztecs... they just used it for children's toys, though. > > (Therein lies a question and an idea: What happens when people start trying > to take literal control of their virtual territory? Consider the scenes in > *Spook Country* where people keep wandering into the Virgin Megastore in > LA to see the virtual installation art -- while the store manager thinks > they're all just a bunch of lunatics. Eventually they were always going to > find a way to throw the artist out and claim the virtual space as their > own.) > HA! I don't have an answer there. I'm one in a bunch of lunatics looked down on by LL as a tool whose intellectual property rights have been revoked. Oh, that was another downward step on their part. S > > > -- > -- > eric scoles | [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
