Remember Virtual Reality, all hyped to hell, back yonder in the pre-millenium bug era? Promising all sorts of entertainment, communications and medical uses, it evaporated – mostly remembered now for adding ‘teledildonics’ to the english language. Googling ‘Augmented Reality’ will reveal where some of that energy has been reinvested – a global movement of tech-heads currently pushing the idea of graphics overlaid on top of your field of vision. A-Rage is an Adelaide company developing both software and hardware for AR, and creative director Joe Velikovsky is quite excited about it’s potential for making computer games which can be played outdoors. ( www.a-rage.com )
> What thrills about A-Rage and it’s possibilities?
Just how `sci-fi’ it is, I guess… except it’s happening right now. As a kid, I’d often (more…)