When reality isn't good enough…

…there’s always augmented reality:

Augmented reality: Headgear is an issue. Photo: CC/Régis Gaidot

Augmented reality: Headgear is an issue. Photo: CC/Régis Gaidot

There’s another dimension present, everywhere we go, that a growing number of technologists are working to uncover. These people aren’t talking about theoretical physics or a magical world of fairies and gnomes – they’re talking about information that could offer more context to traditionally physical lived experience. Augmented Reality (AR) is the phrase being used and this practice of making layers of data available on top of real world experiences could be a big one soon.

via Augmented Reality: Here’s Our Wishlist of Apps, What’s On Yours?.

Actually, there may be another dimension present, but that isn’t what the technologists are uncovering. Rather, they are helping to impose someone else’s messages onto what we experience through our eyes and ears.

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