*More design fiction from back in 2006: the conceptual "Nexus Duo." I like the complete absence of any vision-cues here. Nothing to look at except for the actual city-as-playground, which – (as this rather long video points out) – is a definite plus when it come to being crushed by traffic or mistaken for a lunatic.
*Imagine augmented sonic reality of this kind for the blind and the poorly sighted. A blind person with a mobile geolocative device that can recognize street signs, take photographs, use video, search in real-time, and output in audio cues – and maybe in a tactile cane.
*That blind user wouldn't be dashing around the city trying to capture the flag, as in the gaming video here, but compared to memorizing the paths to the grocery, that kind of augmentation would almost be a superpower.
The neXus duo-device, the worlds first dedicated location based gaming device concept. from Pieter Diepenmaat on Vimeo.
