There's a link to a Ted.com broadcast about a new game layer. I'll have
to watch it at some point.
There are the exciting new technologies which will change the way people
are entertained.
Here's a video of an experimental concept for multiplayer AR gaming in a
cinema. It's worth watching without sound.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tus58EUr0fM
Of course you can watch it with sound but the effect of the point I'm
making works better with the sound off.
In the next ten years it will become normal to see people acting totally
crazy because they're playing a game in the real world but the game
exists in an imaginary environment, the digital game environment, which
only they and other game players can see.
The people in the video look like they've gone mad. Of course it isn't
the same thing as madness. Clearly people are enjoying the experience
and they can chose to stop it. The projections are a shared 'delusion'
and there is a real computer programmer who's created the environment.
It just looks exactly like what a person expects a room full of mad
people to look like.
One of the changes in society the mobile phone handsfree made possible
was for people who hear voices or need to talk to themselves can use a
handsfree set to disguise their difference. People with Bluetooth
headsets look like they're talking to themselves until the observer sees
the headset. There's some potential for the discountability of other
behaviours thanks to virtual information overlaid on the real world that
can only be seen by people using the right equipment
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