Chris Arkenberg, co-founder of the Augmented Reality Development Camp, is doing a stint as guestblogger at BoingBoing and writes up his thoughts on augmented reality. He does the usual bit about the current hype and systems like Layar, and how the future will work with ubiquitous sensors, but also throws in some possibly dark ideas about how not everything augmented could be could.
We risk myopia, disconnection, visual occlusion, fragmented realities, reinforced tribalism. Consider the seemingly-inevitable future where eyewear mediates a cloud-aware augmented interface with the world. Perhaps you opt to obscure ethnicities or anyone not connected to the net. Ghettos look much nicer when painted over with high-res colors and dancing sprites.
