bjorn said:
[quote author= Casper]Stockholm Pokémon hunter impaled on metal fence spike
http://www.thelocal.se/20160722/swedish-pokmon-hunter-impaled-on-iron-fence
People never protests. But they sure gather with the thousands to catch pokemon. And many are even willing to risk their lives for it.
Some found a death body, others got lost in a cave. Walked of a cliff, car accidents and this fellow you mentioned got freaking impaled.
I never saw all those things happening in the cartoon.
But it’s all kind of symbolic if you ask me.
And this is just the first game of it’s kind. And very primitive if you consider all the possibilities. I reckon in the times to come we will see more people outside chasing after imaginary things through
augmented reality. Earth is going to transform in one massive open asylum.
All those people who never showed any interest in their reality seem to replace reality all together with some
augmented fantasy. They really are disintegrating. In fact they are all becoming nuts.
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Augmented fantasy is probably more accurate than augmented reality. As Pierre (I think it was Pierre) commented on
this Sott article
https://www.sott.net/article/322660-Pokemon-Go-and-mass-dissociation-Anchoring-the-frequency-of-chaos-and-destruction
axel_dunor
Re: One step further into dissociation
By: axel_dunor
Actually, I don't think 'Pokemon Go' is augmented reality.
We've interacted with augmented reality for years. For example, a number of cars are equipped with head-up displays, a transparent screen which provides objective data about reality (speed, heading, etc.) In this sense this display does augment reality and the user, while focusing on reality (the vicinity of his car), gets extra parameters directly correlated to reality.
Pokemon Go works the other way around, it's a sort of virtuality made real. The pokemons to be captured are totally virtual and they are the main focus of the players, while the surrounding reality only plays the role of a secondary context.
The prime focus of the individual is not reality (the vicinity of the car) but virtual items (Pokemons), in addition while the head up display provides data directly correlated to the observed reality, the virtual Pokemons are totally decorrelated from the reality (garden roads, etc.) where they 'spawn'.
In the first case, virtual data augment reality, in the latter virtual data supplants reality.
So, yeah, I think we should call it an augmented fantasy. It's a strong from of dissociation that puts people in an altered state out but in public. Kind of like using drugs or being drunk in public. Folks are impaling themselves, falling into bodies of water, off of cliffs, driving into trees, etc. It's pure madness. It's clearly an altered state, not an augmented one. Augmented would show us more of reality, but instead these gamers are actually seeing less. I get that some of them are exercising. Good for them. Unfortunately, they're not just exercising, they're getting one step closer to being real-life, augmented puppets. This thing is spreading across the globe to everyone with smart phones. This wouldn't have even been possible a few years ago, but now millions upon millions have the hardware. All they need is the software and it's free and fast to download. Immediate zombification at your fingertips, yet there's someone or something posting stops and critters to manipulate these zombies. It's really something to step back and ponder as they manipulate people into a highly addictive augmented fantasy in broad daylight. No more hiding out in opium dens. These addicts even look they're socializing, kind of.