Luke Robert Mason, Director of Virtual Futures

We can now use devices to deposit versions of ourselves into an online environment.

Vision is proving to be a limited way to augment our perception. AR can pollute our visual senses.

Neil Harbison is a colour-blind artist. He wears a prosthesis that allows him to hear colour.

http://www.kuriositas.com/2010/06/i-am-borg-worlds-first-recognized.html

Data gloves let us feel virtual objects

http://www.vrealities.com/glove.html

Olly, the web-connected smelly robot, gives you smell notifications – and you can make one yourself if you have a 3D printer

http://www.ollyfactory.com/

Link to scent-based AR: http://www.virtualworldlets.net/Shop/ProductsDisplay/VRInterface.php?ID=29

If we are to start navigating information environments, we need to look at things that are already good at those environments, such as machines and robots. Digital alter egos can help us to navigate these information environments.

Kanye West: Media Cyborg http://snarkmarket.com/2010/6262

Telepod allows us to have telepresence – talk to a 3D holographic representation of someone rather than just a screen image http://www.hml.queensu.ca/telehuman