Augmented Reality

Unboxing Tech's Next Big Thing
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5095-4094-5
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 136 mm x 214 mm, Gewicht: 250 g

Slated as ‘the next big thing in tech’, augmented reality promises to take the screen out of our hands and wrap it around the world via ‘smart spectacles’. As a pervasive, invisible interface between the world and our senses, AR offers unparalleled capacity to reveal hidden digital depths, but it also comes at a cost to our privacy, our property, and our reality.

In this crucial and provocative book, Mark Pesce draws on over thirty years’ experience to offer the first mainstream exploration of augmented reality. He discusses the exciting and beneficial features of AR as well as the issues and risks raised by this still-emerging technology – a technology that moulds us by shaping what we see and hear.

Augmented Reality is essential reading for anyone interested in the growing influence of this impressive but deeply concerning technology. As the book reveals, reality - once augmented - will never be the same.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pesce, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Riot in Rhodes

1 The Will to Empower

2 Surveillance Status

3 The Last Days of Reality

4 The Web Wide World

5 Setting the World to Writes

Conclusion: No Feint but What We Make

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Pesce is an inventor, author, educator, entrepreneur, broadcaster and futurist.