"Goggle Vision" into our worlds

What can we make design be?

" I believe that if we see design as a way of shaping the future of our world, it should be as exciting and thrilling as a great film or book. At the same time, it should communicate not only who we are, but also how we would ideally like our world to be. "

- Tord Boontje
Bourg-Argental, November 2006

Projections into the future

Lasers will let Google Glass project a keyboard onto your palm

"While there’s sure to be lots of data coming out of Google Glass, the big question is how users are going to get information into the device.

So far, Google’s answer has been “voice recognition”, but a recent patent the company filed points to something slightly more interesting: lasers.

The “Methods and Systems for a Virtual Input Device” patent that Google filed last year describes a system wherein a combination of projector and camera are used to create and detect inputs. In theory, this could allow Google Glass to make up for its lack of a keyboard by making the whole world its keyboard.

The idea itself isn’t particularly new. Researchers at Microsoft have been working on a similar concept, dubbed “OmniTouch,” since at least 2011. Like Google’s patent, OmniTouch lets users interact with their devices using ad hoc input interfaces projected onto their hands, arms, and environment.

Google’s patent, however, pushes the concept a bit further. Because Glass comes with a built-in display, the technology also lets users make inputs solely using gestures, which the camera can pick up an interpret. As a result, there are many use cases where the device won’t need to project a keyboard at all." - Ricardo Bilton

http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/17/google-glass-input-projector/#HDqkyzGgtXFGRuiZ.99

And the structure at night in artificial light. 

A short film of the shadows cast by the structure I made.

We talked about social groups like the ones found on face book. The square represents a social group, contained within are "chips" that are exchanging ideas. The world is made up of millions of groups.

This is a very simple 3d model representing one of these social/interest groups.

A Story Line.

So I've been thinking. Imagine that we as people are not people but like computer chips or single cells. We imagine as those cells that we are people and we are wearing the goggles. However we are more like a blank sheet of paper, except we are not a blank sheet of paper, we are the sum of our mother and father chips and all the impressions we have received since our conception. Each chip has a memory, like your phone chip, but more, it remembers touch, taste, sound, smell, sight. As it accesses this memory it is able to extend, using imagination, into it's own dream world. 

There may be interaction between chips(figs 1,2,3,above). The chip may have open spaces that allows it to see beyond itself into the blank white space that belongs to another chip. If the open spaces meet, there may be interchange, a passage of light may pass through and cast light on to another blank space. 

If we imagine we are human, we may imagine how we dress, how we live. We can imagine ourselves back or forward in time. Or in the present day. What is the present day ? We may be who we like. We may be what we like.

The goggles however influence how we are seen. Are we seen as we want to be seen, or do the other people within the goggles see us as they want to see us. 

Our existence hangs on a thread. Like fairies or father christmas we only if exist in this life if we believe.

Therefore imagination in this black and white world is our currency, for it is the source of our life, it gives us the capacity to experience the world as beings with senses intact. Without it our chip becomes a wall within the system unable to interact and as the walls build up our options are progressively closed down.

Therefore imagination also becomes a currency worth sharing for without it the last spark of humanity dies and the machine takes over the world.