Comments on: Japanese researchers continue to blur the virtual-real world boundary http://veryspatial.com/2007/10/japanese-researchers-continue-to-blur-the-virtual-real-world-boundary/ Discussions on Geography and geospatial technologies Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:10:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Thomas Wrobel http://veryspatial.com/2007/10/japanese-researchers-continue-to-blur-the-virtual-real-world-boundary/comment-page-1/#comment-340036 Thomas Wrobel Sat, 13 Oct 2007 10:38:35 +0000 http://veryspatial.com/?p=1798#comment-340036 The rate of change is faster then ever, we are the first generation of humans that cant predict the next 10 years. A few hundred years ago, youd expect your life to stay the same over all of it. I cant wait to live in a totaly Augmented world. There will be problems for sure, but mixture of real/virtual has so many advantages.Almost everything we dont need to touch can be replaced with virtual objects, drasticaly reduceing the human races resource consumtion. Also, when we have perfect AR...and everything can look anything...then shallow materilism will end. Why give value to form, when it is changed in a blink of an eye? Function would be the only thing of value. The rate of change is faster then ever, we are the first generation of humans that cant predict the next 10 years.
A few hundred years ago, youd expect your life to stay the same over all of it.

I cant wait to live in a totaly Augmented world.
There will be problems for sure, but mixture of real/virtual has so many advantages.Almost everything we dont need to touch can be replaced with virtual objects, drasticaly reduceing the human races resource consumtion.

Also, when we have perfect AR…and everything can look anything…then shallow materilism will end.
Why give value to form, when it is changed in a blink of an eye?
Function would be the only thing of value.

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