Open the Future: Making the Visible Invisible is Jamais Cascio’s essay/article on augmented reality. He’s made some interesting observations about SPAM (yes, it’ll be in AR too) and such but my sense is that he’s not particularly familiar with the field or research. He uses the notion of making the visible invisible but probably isn’t aware of Thad Starner’s Mediated Reality work. Nor is aware of (or at least he doesn’t mention) Tobias Hollerer’s filtering research from back in his MARS and CGUI days.
e does, however, have some nice imagery and I’m glad to see a thoughtful essay on the topic. I just hope he spends a little more time getting familiar with the subject. 🙂
