From the article: Keichii Matsuda wrote a manifesto called "GODS". In it he describes an anaphor for augmented reality rooted in pagan animism. Unlike monotheistic Western approaches of interfacing artificial intelligence like ChatGPT or Siri, he advocates to leverage the possibility of augmented reality technologies to extend places and objects to populate the world with many different agents or "gods".
Author should read Daemon by Daniel Suarez written in 2006 that explores the idea of persistent and potentially powerful AR entities that interact with humans. It also loosely plays with the idea of AR somatic gestures acting as a mystical conduit for "primitive incantations" that have a physical affect on the real world.
I love this, I'm a big fan of this approach to technology. The weakness in this approach, for me, is that these examples seem to be mediated through AR glasses, which kind of undoes the analog-ness of the whole thing a bit.
I love the lens effect at the bottom of the viewport and design of the site overall, really cool. Do you have a post about that effect - or is the best way to learn about it in the developer tools?
I’m the opposite end of spectrum. I really disliked the frosted glass look on images as they loaded and left the page before finishing reading due to how off-putting I found it to be.
I really enjoy the "Mark & Comment" prototype. I want to read more on paper, but really don't like digitizing my notes. This flow seems much better for me. As AR devices improve, I expect this kind of low tech / high tech fusion will improve our experiences in novel ways.
Yeah I’m very interested in this. I’d love to be able to easily create digital representations of handwritten notes, even if that requires me to markup specifically-formatted documents.
I love reading paper (and eink) but I hate losing notes, and I don’t have a good process for importing those notes to my Logseq database.
Author should read Daemon by Daniel Suarez written in 2006 that explores the idea of persistent and potentially powerful AR entities that interact with humans. It also loosely plays with the idea of AR somatic gestures acting as a mystical conduit for "primitive incantations" that have a physical affect on the real world.
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