Thursday, January 26, 2012

Vinterstitial Objects and Spaces - A proposal.


The shift to living in virtual reality a large portion of our day has been gradually taking place over the last 20 years or so as the Internet has grown in size and scope.

Bifurcation is our first response.   That is Inelegant.

How we currently deal with this bifurcation:
 - augmented reality
 - Internet of things
 - qrc/tags
 - away status
 - bridges/translation/transformation/portals, etc

Ill-effect of bifurcation:
 - fragmented vision of reality
 - difficulties keeping VR and RL in sync
 - conferencing and telepresence simple visual bridges
 - collaborative spaces only in either VR or physical

Proposal - We treat virtual reality dimensions as first class dimensions rather than second class ones.   We create a new classification of objects that inhabit all dimensions, VR and RL, as Vinterstitial.

(read Flatland for inspiration)

Interstitial Icon - for use on both Real and Virtual Objects:


Interactivity is either uni-directional or bi-directional, and is indicated by the binary existence of the internal dots. 

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