A presentation at ISTAS13 that looks at the way Reality has been defined through the ages and a proposal for a new Reality Cube model that allows more explicit definitions of this fuzzy term.

1. https://buildAR.com : image credit
The future is Un-Real!
But what does it mean to be a 'real' human?

2. Who's making these outlandish claims?
Rob Manson
@nambor
CEO of MOB-Labs the creators of buildAR.com
Chair of the W3C's Augmented Web Community Group
Invited Expert with the ISO, W3C & the Khronos Group
Co-Founder of ARStandards.org
Author of “Getting started with WebRTC” (available July)
https://buildAR.com

3. Common terms in no particular order...
Augmented Reality
Diminished Reality
Virtual Reality
Mixed Reality
Mediated Reality
Augmediated Reality
Augmented Virtuality
the now pervasive Online Reality
and of course the good old Offline, Everyday or 'Real' Reality!
https://buildAR.com

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Losing your grip on Reality?

5. Milgram's Mixed Reality Continuum
https://buildAR.com : image credit Paul Milgram, 1994

6. Augmented Reality allows the user to see the real world,
with virtual objects superimposed upon or composited with
the real world. Augmented Reality:
1) Combines real and virtual
2) Interactive in real time
3) Registered in 3-D
https://buildAR.com Ron Azuma, 1997
Azuma's definition of AR

7. Mann's Mediated Reality Venn Diagram
https://buildAR.com : image credit Steve Mann, 2002

8. https://buildAR.com : image credit George M. Stratton, 1890's

9. https://buildAR.com : image credit René Descartes, 1647

10. https://buildAR.com : image credit Plato, 380BC

11. https://buildAR.com : image credit You started it!

12. https://buildAR.com : image credit V. S. Ramachandran, 1998

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I propose we mix it up a bit

15. https://buildAR.com The mediation axis

16. https://buildAR.com The registration axis

17. https://buildAR.com The interaction axis

18. https://buildAR.com The Reality Cube

19. https://buildAR.com Unconscious / Non Reality

20. https://buildAR.com Everyday (Real) Reality

21. https://buildAR.com “Brain in a jar” Reality

22. https://buildAR.com Google Glass Reality

23. https://buildAR.com Real Augmented Reality

24. https://buildAR.com : image credit J. Kevin O'Regan, 2010

25. https://buildAR.com : image credit Future of Embodiment
sensor
actuator

26. https://buildAR.com : image credit
The future is Un-Real!
But what does it mean to be a 'real' human?