Archive for the 'Time' Category



Augmented history

Published on October 30, 2011

The Civil War app changes in real time and plays out over four and a half years, producing a daily casualty count. This has been criticised as being too immersive – uncomfortable for many people. The Iraq War Memorial app superimposes a war memorial on a real scence http://gamesalfresco.com/2011/02/21/augmented-reality-u-s-iraq-war-memorial/ The war memorial app, brings a […]


Now time is personal

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Mobile devices allow us to shift and personalise time. They allow us to visit places before we arrive and to remain in places after we have left. We renegotiate our time on the fly, and schedule soft meetings with flexible boundaries. They allow us to fill what would previously have been dead time. We dignify […]