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Proprioceptive / Synesthetic interface. “Interface” or extension of the Self?. Supernormal stimuli ( vs . text displays).
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Supernormal stimuli (vs.text displays) • ‘Here’s a thought experiment: suppose you hold up a smartphone and say, “where’s my shoe?” and a laser-pointer jumps out of it and focuses a hot red dot on your lost shoe […]. Maybe we need a definitional category that involves humble little “augment apps” that don’t inflict major interventions on “reality.”Bruce Sterling, (Wired Blog)
...Towards a “function projector”? “ Augmented Reality as the graphic front-end of Ubiquity. And Ubiquity as the killer-app of Sustainability.”, B.Sterling, (Wired Blog)
Knowledge Voxels multi-modal spatial AR for browsing large databases. Skin Games High speed, zero-delay, zero-mismatch spatial AR.
Physical affordances... as services? rechargeable hammer erasable book ...utopian or dystopian future?
Why Interfaces Beyond the Desktop may matter! Failing to see alternatives may be a faux-paswith lasting or irreversible consequences (sustainability, monopoly, waste): QWERTY vs DVORAK… x 1000000! FreeDigitalPhotos.net