{"id":2349,"date":"2010-06-06T14:15:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T22:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=2349"},"modified":"2010-06-06T14:19:24","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T22:19:24","slug":"augmented-reality-painting-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/06\/augmented-reality-painting-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Augmented Reality, Painting, Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bruce Sterling was in town last week, giving a keynote talk at Are2010<\/a>, that is, Augmented Reality Event, 2010.<\/p>\n

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He gave an inspiring talk, although I didn\u2019t initially understand all of it. Turns out, AR is hoping to be a next big thing, a cozier and more commerce-driven cousin of the old VR, or virtual reality.<\/p>\n

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The basic idea in AR is to overlay images over video of the real world around you. Some recidivist types still dream of ultracool bulbous glasses. But it\u2019s more likely you\u2019ll be seeing your AR on the screen of your cellphone\u2014when you hold it up and scan the world around you. The \u201caugmentations\u201d\u009d might be labels, ratings, ads, reality-based videogame bric-a-brac, or cultural info. The server uses your phone\u2019s GPS and some image recognition to \u201cknow\u201d\u009d what you\u2019re pointing the phone at.<\/p>\n

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Videogame god Will Wright was there too, playing with a camera-equipped helicopter he\u2019d been tweaking as part of his new venture, Stupid Fun Club<\/a>. Another type of augmented reality would be to “see” through the eyes of a helicopter that you’re guiding around with simple moves of your hands and eyes. This comes close to realizing the “dragonfly cameras” that I’ve written about in my novels Saucer Wisdom<\/em> and Postsingular<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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I was happy to talk SF with Bruce and to be around the technogeeks. Bruce kept checking his Twitter feed every half hour or so, and he talked me into getting an account. I\u2019m not sure how long I\u2019ll keep it up, but I\u2019m finding it interesting for now. If you want to follow my tweets\u2014or find out whose tweets I\u2019m presently following, you can click the button below.<\/p>\n

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I finished a new painting this week, \u201cBilly\u2019s Book.\u201d\u009d As I mentioned in my previous post, the painting is a kind of illustration for Terry Bisson\u2019s cool story collection, Billy\u2019s Book<\/a><\/em>. The twelve panels of my work illustrate twelve of the stories.<\/p>\n


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\nBilly\u2019s Book, 40\u201d\u009d by 30\u201d\u009d, June, 2010. Click here to see larger image<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Terry wanted Billy to be \u201cin\u201d\u009d each picture, and at first he wasn\u2019t, but then I had the idea of making some of the icons be stand-ins for Billy. Anything with blonde hair or a green t-shirt \u201cis\u201d\u009d Billy, in other words. We\u2019ve got Billy and the Bulldozer, Billy and Spacemen, Billy and the Withc, Billy and the Unicorn, and so on. Actually there\u2019s 14 stories, so I may yet do another painting with two squares only: \u201cBilly\u2019s Book (The Apocrypha)\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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