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Fig. 5.3
Miku Hatsune AR,
late 2000s
Fig. 5.4
Virtual Tupac (Image courtesy Digital Domain
2012
)
The virality of the Miku/Vocaloid technology made her an ideal subject for an AR
companion. Since 2009, numerous Hatsune Miku demos based on fiducial markers
on paddles would arise, even to the point of applications using the Oculus Rift
headset to let you “live” with or sleep alongside Miku. This is more in the realm of
what this essay terms as the Environmental or even Embodied/Wearable gesture of
AR. This is a step more advanced than the GPS/Geolocative, placing the augment in
space through
environmental feature
recognition rather than accessing and external
GPS database of Points of Interest (POIs) linked to associated media.
