More Questions From”Augmented Human,” for Consideration
1. Papagiannis says that we are in the second phase of AR, what she calls “entryway” (the first being “overlay”). What do you think the third wave will be? Can we even predict it?
2. Papagiannis says AR will help us connect more directly to our real experience and senses. At the same time, she believes that the medium has the potential to create impossible realities (i.e. ghost stories). Is there a conflict between these two conceptualizations of AR, or are they compatible?
3. Papagiannis describes a number of technologies that can create AR avatars of people that can live forever. Would you want yourself preserved in an AR avatar? How would this change the way we view death, and the ways in which we grieve?
4. AR, Papagiannis says, is “rooted” in cinema. What other forms of media does AR draw from?