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Virtual Reality Is the Rich White Kid of Technology
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Augmented Reality • By Marc Pesce • Polity Press • 168 pages • ISBN 9781509540945 • £14.99 / $17
Virtual reality (VR) has a long history, with many false starts and retrenchments, from the Nintendo Power Glove to Second Life to Magic Leap. Augmented reality (AR) actually goes even further back, to Ivan Sutherland s 1968 head-mounted display, nicknamed the Sword of Damocles because of the way it hung from ceiling rigging, although it was Pokémon Go that made AR a mainstream reality at least for a time.
That collision of technology with the physical world can be entertaining and inspiring, but it raises some major questions about who is building the interface between the physical and digital worlds, and who will get to control AR s annotations and overlays. In
glove and me being 14 i thought how cool would that be to put on a glove and when you move your hand the robotic hand will mimic your movements. i thought that was cool and i started looking around and there was really nothing out there online, you know really out publicly to the world yet, and so that was kind of disturninging for me but then it was a challenge, a really cool challenge and so i started learning basic circuitry, electronics, programming to make it all happen and my first prototype was made, i had legos as supports, a lot of electrical tape and tubing as the fingers. you managed to use one of my childhood favorites as well a nintendo power glove. yes, not many people know about this but it s great to see that you know it. this is kind of revamped power glove. it has wireless radios, i tap into the sensors embedded in the finger tips so this controls the