The Emperor’s New Augmented Clothes. Digital Objects as Part of the Every Day

Abstract

Abstract:The main aim of this work is to solve a problem that Augmented Reality is facing by using phenomenological and phenomenological analyses and projectors. Augmented reality seeks to merge the digital and real world by producing a mixed reality where the digital objects are usually visualised thanks to the head mounted or mobile devices. However, this technology is facing problems because the objects generated by the digital devices are existing merely inside the small group of people while using specific devices. Therefore, these objects look fictitious for the other members of the society who are not using them. In order to analyse the elements which make these objects fictitious for the other member of the society, we will take into account the story of The Emperor's new clothes because, even in this story, there are fictional entities not perceivable by other members of the community. Thanks to this story, it will be possible to highlight some elements which make the objects part of the everyday world. Moreover, it will show how the intersubjectivity of these objects is directly related to their way of being perceived by the subjects and, in the case of augmented reality, to the devices used to make them perceivable. For this reason, it is possible to solve the problem Augmented Reality is facing by changing the devices used to produce these digital objects. At the end of the work, we will propose a project which can solve the problem by following the elements previously highlighted. We will show how, thanks to wearable projectors, it is possible to produce digital clothes as part of the everyday world of every subject. Thanks to these digital clothes people will be able to wear the digital objects as if they were common, usual objects without being naked.

Evaluation of the realism of a full-color reflection H2 analog hologram recorded on ultra-fine-grain silver-halide material

“…The authors did not find any examples in the literature in which full-color, ultra-realistic H2 holograms were mixed with real elements; nor any evaluations of a transplane hologram based on perceptions of the general public. In fact, our research is more closely aligned with the modern concept of mixed reality (MR) systems, which supplement real world objects with virtual ones that appear to coexist in the same space [20,21].…”