‘Pop Beauty Stains, Filter” Heemsbergen L. 2023 (Midjourney) While using apps like TikTok or Instagram, if you decide to include an augmented reality (AR) filter (or lens) onto your image the top filters that come up, algorithmically targeted to users, will almost always include at least one âbeauty filterâ. A beauty filter is an AR…
Last month, Apple revealed its long-teased Vision Pro headset, a device that uses augmented reality technology to project a digital image onto the physical world. But, Apple revealed, it wonât work â at least out of the box â if you wear glasses. Instead, youâll need to buy inserts to attach to the device lens. Appleâs…
When Apple introduced their Vision Pro it represented another iteration of the immersive head-mounted display dating back to Ivan Sutherlandâs experiments in the 1960s, but with a difference. Appleâs Vision Pro is not only a high-resolution immersive display for the person wearing it, but also features an external display that gives the impression for those…
RIP Metaverse. Not my headline, but the leading line of an article in Business Insider in May 2023. As I write this at the end of May, I can look back on a month of relentless articles informing us of the death of the metaverse. Requests for a momentâs silence for the death of the…
Evolutionary tree of tech (Authors-Midjourney) There is no shortage of diagrams that purport to explain the evolution of technology in society. One fun diagram in the academic study of emerging technology is Geelâs (2002) âdynamic multi-level perspective on [Technology Transitions].â The diagram sure beats popular industry sources like the Gartner Hype Cycle diagram in terms…
In October 2022, Forbes reported that 100,000 people had stopped using Metaâs social VR app, Horizon Worlds. This wasnât surprising, given that Metaâs employees apparently weren’t using it either. In internal memos, Vishal Shah, Metaâs VP of Metaverse, reprimanded employees for not using (and not âfalling in loveâ with) the app, arguing that âthe aggregate…
Most people who spend significant time with virtual reality become familiar with the queasiness that VR experiences can leave you with long after you remove the headset. In my case, I can locate this feeling in a very precise spot in my stomach: a knotted, vaguely poisoned sensation that sometimes takes hours to wear off….
Anyone who studies or talks about augmented reality and virtual reality technologies will inevitably get asked the question: but how is that augmented/mixed/virtual reality? Isnât that more AR than VR? How one talks about these technologies is continually evolving. With every application/device that is released a version of this debate gets kicked up again, whether…
Inevitably, a big 2023 story will be Appleâs release of their long-rumored XR headset. For years, news and tech websites have published minutiae of the project, quoting supply chain analystsâ claims it will be âthe most complicated product Apple has ever designedâ as well as âa game-changer for the headset industry.â While fans may be…
Fifteen years ago, a grad student named danah doyd was finishing off her dissertation titled Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics exploring how teens were leveraging newly forming social media to live their lives in novel ways; boyd spotted people and publics coming of age in new ways. Itâs useful to…