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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop

I found this to be very cool:

The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and architecture taking on new roles related to branding, image and consumerism. Augmented reality may recontextualise the functions of consumerism and architecture, and change in the way in which we operate within it.
I imagine this having very good odds of becoming reality someday, perhaps through the use of a heads-up display across my bionic contacts lenses integrated through an implanted hard drive similar to this cell phone concept. I really could do without the constant and intrusive Minority Report-style ads though:

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