First Reflection on Augmented Reality Event #ARE2011
I will start here a line of reflections after the fascinating Augmented Reality Event #ARE2011 organized by Ori Inbar and his partners.
Mike Kuniavsky ( @mikekuniavsky ) make me to reflect to the context - content paradigm. Not so long ago I have heard at every mobile conference "Content is KIng". At that time I've build my own vision about content, respective data. We are moving from the first stage in our Knowledge Era - Solid Infrastructure to the the second stage - Fluid Infrastructure. Plato make a distinction between knowledge and belief ( dialogue Giorgias ), knowledge - concern facts, can be true/false ( something not new for geeks :-) ) belief - always open for interpretation.
Douglas Thomas and J.S. Brown consider that this two concepts are situated as a question of "What .. ?". This, from my point of view belong to the Solid Infrastructure - knowledge are static.
We move now in the new media paradigms, real time, social, collective, geospatial. Now our interest, and google opened the Pandora's door, are "Where is the information?". This mean we have a dynamic context - open to change, reconstruct, with a clear metabolism. The Context Metabolism move us in the Era of Fluid Infrastructure of Knowledge.
Mike Kuniavsky ( @mikekuniavsky ) was one of the speakers at this week’s Augmented Reality Event #are2011 with his presentation Somatic Data Perception – Sensing Information Shadows.
His main point is that “augmented reality is the experience of contextually appropriate data in the environment. And that experience not only can, but MUST, use every sense available.”
“If AR is the experience of any kind of data by any sense then we have the options to associate secondary data with secondary senses to create hierarchies of information that match our cognitive abilities.
For me, augmented reality is the extension of our senses into the realm of information shadows where physical objects have data representations that can be manipulated digitally as we manipulate objects physically. To me this goes further than putting a layer of information over the world, like a veil. It’s about enhancing the direct experience of the world, not to replace it, and to do it in a way that’s not about being completely in the background, like ambient data weather, or about taking over our attention.
So what I’m advocating for is a change in language away from “augmented reality” to something that’s more representative of the whole experience of data in the environment. I’m calling it “Somatic Data Perception” and I close on a challenge to you. As you’re designing, think about what IS secondary data and what are secondary, and how can the two be brought together?”
Will be very interesting to see how will infuence this transformation our "New Culture of Learning", and must to thank very much to the mensch that open this light in my mind Joi Ito @joi.
