Wed
Jul 5 2017
12:43 pm
What is the opposite of augmented?
By: R. Neal

Dear Silicon Valley:

I do not want or need augmented reality. I prefer my reality the way it is. In fact, what is the opposite of augmented? That might actually be useful.

Thanks, and best regards.

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Knoxoasis's picture

I dunno. This looks pretty

Submitted by Knoxoasis on Wed, 2017/07/05 - 1:56pm.

I dunno. This looks pretty cool to me.

Somebody's picture

Musically speaking, the

Submitted by Somebody on Wed, 2017/07/05 - 3:27pm.

Musically speaking, the opposite of augmented is diminished.

Of course, as Elie Wiesel said, "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of beauty is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, but indifference between life and death."

R. Neal's picture

Diminished reality sounds

Submitted by R. Neal on Wed, 2017/07/05 - 3:42pm.
(in reply to Somebody)

Diminished reality sounds preferable sometimes.

Andy Axel's picture

Unadulterated.

Submitted by Andy Axel on Wed, 2017/07/05 - 3:52pm.

.

cafkia's picture

You are quite wrong. AR is

Submitted by cafkia on Wed, 2017/07/05 - 4:03pm.

You are quite wrong.

AR is described as AR because we have normalized all the rest of what might reasonably be called AR. Reality is what you start with. It is a beach, an ocean, a forest, a desert, a tundra, a lake. Humans can and did live in or near all of those environments pretty much as they were. Then we started augmenting them with structures and such. Then we wanted others to know what was in the structures so we augmented the augmentations with signage and street names and numbers. The idea that we would seek to further augment the augmentations and do it in such a way as to make it personal for each individual seems eminently reasonable to me.

R. Neal's picture

Interesting counterpoint. The

Submitted by R. Neal on Wed, 2017/07/05 - 5:17pm.
(in reply to cafkia)

Interesting counterpoint. The improvements and enhancements you mention, though, all exist in the physical realm, i. e. reality, v. the computational made up world.

I have to admit, though, that the little yellow virtual first down marker stripes shown on the field during football game TV broadcasts are pretty cool, and augment the reality of a fairly abstract pursuit.

cafkia's picture

I will accept that there is a

Submitted by cafkia on Thu, 2017/07/06 - 12:45pm.
(in reply to R. Neal)

I will accept that there is a clear difference between "physical" and "digital" artifacts. But I am unwilling to describe one as "real" and the other as "made up". Digital is easily as real as the average billboard is to a blind person or a radio broadcast is to a deaf person. Yes, it is more real if you have the means of seeing it but my deficiency is not the world's.

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