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Nazarian was mocking up an
AR experience. He understood them
to be “screenless” (via glasses or
contacts, perhaps) overlays on the
physical world. He called this sort
of overlay an “eidolon
5
interactive
experience” (eidolon IE).
In his thesis project,
Strange De-
sign
(2004), Nazarian designed an
eidolon IE for use by a fi rst assistant
director (AD) in fi lm production 30
years in the future (see Figure 6.2).
Overlays of the AD's view identifi ed
people, their functions, and objects
of importance in the scene. A major
innovation was a “time-ahead” view
of upcoming events that would require the AD's attention at some level. It
would appear as an overlay of a translucent funnel that displayed upcom-
ing events in a complex task space. It used depth of fi eld (speed), color, and
size as variables. The color palette of triage indicated level of urgency (tri-
age was one of Scott's inspirations). Events/tasks/items appeared to move
Figure 6.1.
Scott Nazarian's PBJ
augmented reality experiment (Photo courtesy
of D. Scott Nazarian © 2002-2005.)
Figure 6.2
. Scott Nazarian's Eidolon time-ahead overlay
(Photo courtesy of D. Scott Nazarian © 2002-2005.)
5. From the Greek, a “phantom” or “apparition.”
