WoW Case Study Part 2: Synthetic Presencing –"When Life Gives You Nazis, Make...
[cont] Having decided to take action regarding the Swastika Symbol, Bowtox broadcasts a _call to action_ to other interested WoW characters through the general, trade and looking-for-group chat...
View Article_Synthetic Presencing vs Branding_: Fail Whale Gets a Girlfriend
Twitter is a microblogging service that is currently experiencing continual outages. Users are encountering a range of Twitter functionality issues including scalability and stability problems. These...
View Article_A Warcry for Birthing Synthetic Worlds_ [Part 3]
<cont> The web was built on openness and designed from the ground up to enable sharing of code – view the source from early web pages for examples. Yet it seems that already Second Life content...
View Article"BSG" Presencing: Twittercast-Style
Presencing – as described in an earlier entry – is a type of synthetic engagement that extends contemporary entertainment. Fan fiction illustrates how Presencing utilises traditional entertainment...
View Article_Social Tesseracting_: Part 2
In _Social Tesseracting_: Part 1, we learnt that: 1. Dimensionality defines working concepts of reality. 2. Theoretically, dimensionality can also expand to define a spectrum of nascent social actions....
View Article_Social Tesseracting_: Part 3
Social tesseracting is a three part series of link-rich blog entries that functionally describe how synthetics – people who explore within and create augmented/cross-reality platforms – operate in...
View Article_I am Transreal_: A Reflection On/Of Becoming Dragon [Part 2]
I am becoming something else. In this moment, this being-in-transition, I am willfully stepping into the unknown. I am between realities. I can only imagine what I want to become, and then choose to...
View ArticleAugmented Reality vs. Aura Recognition [3]
Part 3: The Crystal Ball Film Still, The Wizard of Oz. <continued from Part 2: Infinite Summer Afternoons> During the 1939 film version of The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy visits Professor Marvel and...
View Article“The Old Spice Guy”: Presencing & Synthapticism In Action
In 2008, several articles here at Augmentology examined the concepts of Synthetic Presencing and Synthapticism. Both concepts are part of a theoretical framework that attempts to explain developing...
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