The future is un-Real

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A presentation at ISTAS13 that looks at the way Reality has been defined through the ages and a proposal for a new Reality Cube model that allows more explicit definitions of this fuzzy term.

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The future is Un-Real!But what does it mean to be a 'real' human?

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Who's making these outlandish claims?

Rob Manson@nambor

CEO of MOB-Labs the creators of buildAR.com

Chair of the W3C's Augmented Web Community Group

Invited Expert with the ISO, W3C & the Khronos Group

Co-Founder of ARStandards.org

Author of “Getting started with WebRTC” (available July)

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Common terms in no particular order...

Augmented Reality

Diminished Reality

Virtual Reality

Mixed Reality

Mediated Reality

Augmediated Reality

Augmented Virtuality

the now pervasive Online Reality

and of course the good old Offline, Everyday or 'Real' Reality!

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Losing your grip on Reality?

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Milgram's Mixed Reality Continuum

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Augmented Reality allows the user to see the real world, with virtual objects superimposed upon or composited with the real world. Augmented Reality:

1) Combines real and virtual

2) Interactive in real time

3) Registered in 3-D

https://buildAR.com Ron Azuma, 1997

Azuma's definition of AR

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Mann's Mediated Reality Venn Diagram

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https://buildAR.com : image credit René Descartes, 1647

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https://buildAR.com : image credit V. S. Ramachandran, 1998

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I propose we mix it up a bit

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https://buildAR.com The mediation axis

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https://buildAR.com The registration axis

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https://buildAR.com The interaction axis

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https://buildAR.com The Reality Cube

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https://buildAR.com Unconscious / Non Reality

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https://buildAR.com Everyday (Real) Reality

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https://buildAR.com “Brain in a jar” Reality

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https://buildAR.com Google Glass Reality

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https://buildAR.com Real Augmented Reality

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sensor

actuator

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The future is Un-Real!But what does it mean to be a 'real' human?