Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Concluding Remarks: Today's Vision of an Art
Form of the Future
Vladimir Geroimenko
“The future of Augmented Reality is bright.” This would probably be the best
sentence to start these concluding thoughts with. The problem is that so many topics
on so many topics have already used a similar sentence for their final chapters, but
no one is now aware or cares about many of those topics any more. So, what about
Augmented Reality? Is it going to stay with mankind forever or just for a while? As
it was with many other information technologies, only time can provide a correct
answer to this question.
What about today? To what extent can we be sure about a promising future for
Augmented Reality and also a new form of art, based on this emerging technology?
From the birth of mankind until the end of the twentieth century humans have lived
in a single world (that we can now call the real reality). The invention of computers
and the Internet has added a new realm of reality - a complex, exciting and useful
digital world. Since then, we are living in the two different worlds (physical and
digital), but not at the same time - at least, in terms our perception and attention.
This is where Augmented Reality comes into play. This unique technology enables
the very existence of a new world that is a mixture of the real and the digital.
Augmented or Mixed Reality implants digital content into physical world in order
to augment and enhance the latter. It makes it possible to experience digital world
without leaving the physical one. Augmented Reality is a crucial step from a dualism
of physical and digital worlds to their unity, and this makes that technology of
paramount value to the future of humankind.
Augmented Reality Art is not only a novel creative medium, it is bound to
become an organic part of the emerging hybrid world. It brings a new type of
artworks into physical world - works that can be at any place, of any size and of
