Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Augmented reality and Alice in Wonderland

From Accelerando, the processor with social network has created a new world of augmented reality.

In Alice in Wonderland, there are a lot of interesting rules in the book but the ending has more impact on me saying how the dream was triggered by the reality:

So she sat on, with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality—the grass would be only rustling in the wind, and the pool rippling to the waving of the reeds—the rattling teacups would change to tinkling sheep-bells, and the Queen's shrill cries to the voice of the shepherd-boy—and the sneeze of the baby, the shriek of the Gryphon, and all the other queer noises, would change (she knew) to the confused clamour of the busy farm-yard—while the lowing of the cattle in the distance would take the place of the Mock Turtle's heavy sobs.

Also in Through the looking glassand What Alice found there, there is also interesting relationship with reality and in the mirror (which is like a virtual world). Inside the mirror, there are many things that are partially reality, and partially with new rule, for instance:
-When Alice looking at the mirror from the living room of the reality side, everything is the same for both side of the world. But when Alice go inside the mirror, all those part she can't see before is different from reality. So within the boundary of the mirror: both side is the same. And reality turns into fantasy when objects go beyond the boundary of the mirror.
-When Alice trying to go to the garden, she's farther away when she walks toward it while near it when she walks opposite. So probably because the mirror effect. Distance is by opposite direction of reality.
-When Alice need to move to the next chess, the queen said "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!" So the speed needs to be twice as reality in order to move forward.
-In the mirror, one's memory works both ways and they living backward. When the queen know her finger will be bleeding, she scream before it happened.
-Words can be reinterpreted by Humpty Dumpty
-They are all the dream of the Red King. But All of them is also Alice's dream. So it is inside the dream of a dream. Or they can never know who is inside who's dream.

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