The Fantasy of Opting Out

Re:The Fantasy of Opting Out by germinalphrase on Thursday February 18, 2021 @09:33AM (#26180166)

There will be a great spookiness to augmented reality.

Already, we invite soft surveillance into our private spaces, but will we agree to having those spaces mapped to the millimeter, our objects tracked in kind and location, our private actions (in addition to our words) persistently noticed, considered and logged?

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Re:The Fantasy of Opting Out by airstrike on Thursday February 18, 2021 @09:45AM (#26180311)

Relevant (and still disturbing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs

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Re:The Fantasy of Opting Out by pdkl95 on Thursday February 18, 2021 @10:09AM (#26180651)

I strongly recommend everyone watch Raph Koster's talk "Still Logged In: What AR and VR Can Learn from MMOs"[1] about the ethical issues involved in VR/AR... and how VR/AR can be used as a weapon.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgw8RLHv1j4

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Re:The Fantasy of Opting Out by germinalphrase on Thursday February 18, 2021 @09:58AM (#26180519)

It is a solid piece of work, but the blaring visual pollution is probably not our biggest worry.

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