Living in an Augmented Reality » pubs http://www.augmentedenvironments.org/blair Thoughts on AR, technology and anything else I feel compelled to talk about Sun, 02 May 2010 01:24:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 2006-2007 blair.macintyre@gmail.com (Living in an Augmented Reality) blair.macintyre@gmail.com (Living in an Augmented Reality) posts Thoughts on AR, technology and anything else I feel compelled to talk about Living in an Augmented Reality Living in an Augmented Reality blair.macintyre@gmail.com No no http://www.augmentedenvironments.org/blair/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Living in an Augmented Reality http://www.augmentedenvironments.org/blair 144 144 Is playing Spore in The Eagle Pub a form of AR? http://www.augmentedenvironments.org/blair/2008/09/14/is-playing-spore-in-the-eagle-pub-a-form-of-ar/ http://www.augmentedenvironments.org/blair/2008/09/14/is-playing-spore-in-the-eagle-pub-a-form-of-ar/#comments Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:20:07 +0000 blair http://www.augmentedenvironments.org/blair/?p=20 Well, I guess I’ll answer that question with “no.”   But, on the night before ISMAR starts here in Cambridge, England, I was sitting around with some fellow AR folk, having a pint and some fish and chips in The Eagle, and I let the unwashed iPhone-less masses indulge in Spore on my iPhone.

And it struck me as somehow appropriate that we were playing Spore in the Eagle Pub.   For those who don’t know,  the Eagle is the place where Francis Crick interrupted patrons’ lunchtime on 28 February 1953 to announce that he and James Watson had “discovered the secret of life” after they had come up with their proposal for the structure of DNA. 

Perhaps this is only amusing to those of us with jet lag.  Off to bed, then, and off to ISMAR tomorrow!

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