Augmented Reality

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Mark Pesce. Augmented Reality

Contents

Guide

Pages

Augmented Reality. Unboxing Tech’s Next Big Thing

Copyright page

Timeline of Key Events in AR

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Riot in Rhodes

Notes

1 The Will to Empower

Notes

2 Surveillance Status

Notes

3 The Last Days of Reality

Notes

4 The Web Wide World

Notes

5 Setting the World to Writes

Notes

Conclusion: No Feint but What We Make

Index

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Mark Pesce

Although I had given some thought to expanding that title to book length, my efforts proved unsuccessful until I received an unexpected email from Mary Savigar at Polity. Mary would go on to become the commissioning editor for Augmented Reality. Although I took my time with the drafting, submission, re-drafting, and resubmission of the proposal for this book, Mary was unfailingly patient, supportive, and insightful; this book owes everything to her persistence.

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Something so utterly innocuous as a nostalgic game – capturing fantastical, imaginary Pokémon – can produce unexpected and unprecedented human impacts on the real world. The story of Peg Paterson Park reveals the contours of a future where the blending of the real and the algorithmic could be used – indeed, has already been used – to generate social outcomes.

In itself, this represents nothing new: The dilemma of the Web as information/disinformation medium has created a culture with the greatest population of “disinformed” individuals in human history. Yet the Web occupies (and, it could be argued, pollutes) the internal hyperspace of human thought. It exists within a single dimensionless point, while all the real remains beyond its reach.

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