[P2P-F] augmented reality

[Michel Bauwens]

this article
http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2011/03/10/virtual-mediated-and-augmented-reality/

makes some important discussion around mediated/augmented/virtual reality

Alessandro, could you you have a look at it, eventually quote/discuss it?

Michel

The failure to distinguish augmented and mediated reality betrays an widely
held assumption that causality between the online and offline worlds  is
uni-directional; that is, it only considers how the material is altered by
the digital.  However, augmented reality is bigger than just holding a
smartphone screen in front of your face to see information superimposed on
the landscape in front of you.  Using this kind of program as the
paradigmatic example of augmented reality obscures the recursivity between
the online and offline world.  Almost every aspect of online networks and
their content are determined by the same social structures (e.g., race,
class, gender, etc.)  that have long determined offline networks and their
content.  *Augmented reality does not just alter our social and material
reality, it also reproduces and reifies it.*

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