*Design grad-student work by Frantz Lasorne from Nantes. Really liking an imaginary toy system that lets kids pile up some playthings on the floor. "The land of counterpane," as Robert Louis Stevenson used to call it. That's where kids grow.
Augmented Reality Toys.v2 (Work in progress) from Frantz Lasorne on Vimeo.
*Then some actual kids show up to interact with the infant system. Note how the kids spend most of their time haplessly grappling with the unsteady interface rather than getting any useful playing done. This is a sign of health in an infant industry. Do not be disillusioned by this.
*I have three, maybe five augmented apps on my Android now (depending on how one strictly defines "augmented"), and I've yet to do anything actually practical with any of them. "Wait a minute... the back button made everything disappear... where's the menu? Call that a 'help screen'? What do you mean, 'network no longer available'?"
*As a user, this ought to hurt my feelings, but it doesn't. Nope, not any more. I'm patient, I'm self-sacrificing. It's like making baby food and changing diapers. "But I'm spending all my time with this fitful, howling baby! What if he's a waste of time? What if he grows up to be a mass murderer?" Well, SOMEBODY's baby has got to be a mass murderer: c'mon, quit that whining and get on with it.
