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Sherwood Rise
• International UNESCO project ‘Crossing Media Boundaries: Adaptations and New Media Forms of the Book’
• "Sherwood Rise” - is an Augmented Reality (AR) transmedia story "experience" involving smart phones and traditional printed physical books
• Study of the processes of adaptation in creating augmented books.
Augmented Reality book
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• "AR allows the user to see the real world, with virtual objects superimposed upon or composited with the real world. Therefore, AR supplements reality, rather than completely replacing it. Ideally, it would appear to the user that the virtual and real objects coexisted in the same space.”
(Ronald Azuma, A Survey of Augmented Reality, 1997)
Augmented Reality – a definition
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• Google Glasses likely here by 2014
• Users to be always connected to the internet through a headset
• Superimposes digital data on what wearers look at
• The information can correspond with the view, e.g. giving directions or information about tourist sites.
Augmented Reality - coming soon
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The Politics of AR and place:
Augmented reality in urban places: contested content and the duplicity of code - Mark Graham, Matthew Zook and Andrew Boulton, 2012:
“Given the important role that digital discourses (in the form of geographically referenced content) play in co-constituting place, we call for redoubled attention to both the layerings of content and the duplicity and ephemerality of code in shaping the uneven and power-laden practices of representation and experience of augmented urban places.”
Augmented Reality and Politics
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Artists using AR to contest power structures involving space:
Tamiko Thiel & the artist group "ManifestAR" - political AR Provocations:
"With AR we install, revise, permeate, simulate, expose, decorate, crack, infest and unmask Public Institutions, Identities and Objects previously held by Elite Purveyors of Public and Artistic Policy in the so-called Physical Real."
(http://manifestarblog.wordpress.com)
Augmented Reality and Politics
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The Augmented Book:
Concerned with the politics of Augmented Reality and stories.
Augmented Reality and Politics
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• The Augmented Book uses AR to contest the news told in a newspaper
• The AR tells the news from other perspectives, what is the truth?
• Different version of news is told in the augmented content
Augmented Reality and Politics
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• Cross-media, Transmedia, stories across multiple platforms
• Expanding a traditional printed story, new forms of the book, possible futures of the book
• Telling stories using a Smartphone (e.g. iPhone or Android)
This project is about new forms of storytelling ...
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• Use AR to expand a printed story• AR is digital "artefacts" - text, graphics,
animations, video, sound, live data, connected to databases
• AR is digital, it can be dynamic, whereas a physical real book is static.
• How to handle the static versus dynamic aspects?
• How can a printed story change through interaction with AR?
• We decided a newspaper format is one way to solve this problem, instead of a traditional book or novel format.
Narrative Challenges
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• Financial crisis• Robin Hood• Relevant to the current situation• Robin Hood story - a good guy, hero
or villain - even gangster? • Many possible perspectives• AR telling other perspectives.
The Story
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• Dave Moorhead - short story, adapted from the original (English) Robin Hood
• The traditional folk story of peasant revolt and dissent brought up to date
• In this adaptation, austerity is imposed on the poor by a privileged elite, while a gang of hackers called the ‘Merry Men’ fight back.
Adaptation - Dave Moorhead
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• Range of media• Newspaper - over four days• Subscribe to the newspaper• Arrives as a PDF via email, each
morning• Your actions update a database• This dictates which version of the
newspaper you receive• Dave had to adapt his story to
work in multiple format/ platforms.
Adaptation for AR & Transmedia
Sherwood RiseThe Transmedia structure
Sherwood RiseScreenshots - 2D Images mapped onto 3D planes
Sherwood RiseScreenshots - 2D Images mapped onto 3D planes
Sherwood RiseScreenshots - 2D Images mapped onto 3D planes
Sherwood RiseScreenshots – 2D Images mapped onto 3D planes
Sherwood RiseScreenshots – animated sequences
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The project blog:http://augmentedwonder.blogspot.co.uk
Twitter: @augmentedbook
• Dave Miller, RIMAD Post Doctoral Research Fellow at UoB• [email protected]
• Dave Moorhead, PhD student and screenwriter, UoB• [email protected]
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