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Fig. 5.18
Sight
(Image Courtesy Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo 2013)
Fig. 5.19
A morning of meta
(Still Courtesy of Meta, Inc.
2013
)
Two (more real) embodied AR platforms also begin with design fictions, as many
start-ups do in the 2010s, and are becoming more tangible. Two competing sets
of AR glasses are competing for the imagination of the public, mainly Meta, and
Atheer. The Meta AR platform was presented much in the vision of
One Day with
Google Glass
(Con
2012
) in the form of
A Morning of Meta
(Meta
2013
,Fig.
5.19
)
.
In my essay,
An Alpha Revisionist Manifesto
(Lichty
2001
, 443-445), I theorize
8 years prior to this writing, in the future, companies will create pre-prototype
narratives and what Sterling would term as 'design fictions' to inspire the funders,