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Alexander Light's blog is a thing made out of words, pictures and digital stuffs.

It is not a thing specifically about Alexander Light. However, by virtue of acting as a receptacle for things Alexander Light regards as interesting or of value, it therefore must be a representative artifact of Alexander Light's current interests or state of mind.

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(p.s. I've not started routinely talking about myself in the 3rd person, I'm just trying to sort out my SEO rankings).

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Augmented Reality is very much a buzzword, indeed it’s such a buzzword it’s already fading in to the commonplace (there’s been enough QR code / webcam games now and we’ve certainly done our share (RubberDuckzilla).

It’s something that seems very likely to me to develop rapidly, because there’s a clear direction with both technologies that compliment it (mobile computing, the ubiquity of wireless broadband, super cheap digital cameras, plus we’re finally getting closer to tech that gets a little closer to your eyes and brain). AR (or “Mediated Reality as Vernor Vinge put it) was something I read about a while back in Rainbow’s End (not the greatest book of his, but very vivid), but I’ve not seen anything that gets that close.

Then I spotted this student piece via Kester - Augmented (hyper)Reality. I think this (sadly) gets a lot right. I ask myself “What will my kids do that freaks me out” and I think the answer is “Find living in this utterly natural”.

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