Daniel Phelps
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An Argument for Labor Training in Mixed Realities and Underserved Communities
There is currently an extreme need for tradespeople throughout the country, especially in Georgia’s manufacturing sector. At the same time, the unemployment or underemployment rate in urban areas has skyrocketed to all-time highs for those in poverty. Can solutions to be found using modern training technologies to get people out of poverty and into well-paying…
Ethical Consideration of Machine System Control in AR research
When considering pursuing research into using “Extended Reality Systems” (XR) as they interface with robotic and automated manufacturing components, many ethical concerns need to be considered before designing and implementing research methods. Human health will need to be protected as well as any personal or biometric data collected. In this analysis, we will assume that…
A Meta-Literature Review on Augmented Reality
PDF Download Daniel Phelps Digital Media Program at The Georgia Institute of Technology Abstract: Even though being developed for decades now, Augmented Reality systems are coming into their own as public facing HMD’s, tablets, and immersive display systems are emerging into the public vernacular. As the hardware and software development tools have come down significantly…
Expertise and Democratization Reflections
Free and open platforms. Free software. Free hardware schematics. Freely sharing ideas about technology development. At the genesis of the personal computer was the infamous late 70’s “Homebrew Computer Club,” A group of DIY computer enthusiasts determined to move the computer from the mainframe and into the home [1]. The “free” ethos of this group…
Mixed Reality Rights and History
The Internet, the World Wide Web, Online Gaming, Wikipedia, Social Media, Virtual Reality, and (ahem..) The Metaverse. An incomplete list of technologies meant to connect, inform, and often escape our humanity. These technologies have been predicted and dissected by theorists and technologists over the past 150 years. The rhetoric surrounding this media critique often revolves…
Screens, A practical Approach in Digital Media
Screens. The apparatus in which an image can be held and manipulated. Colors ever changing at a rapid pace, fooling our senses into believing in motion. The screen can be intoxicating, thrilling, dramatic; all in a matter of moments. At its core the screen combines the ancient art of oral traditions with the advent of…
Electrovironment
PDF Download Outdated technology figuratively and literally clutters our environment on a global scale. Whether online or IRL, old technology gives into new, forever reconstituting the past into emerging forms that are sometimes unrecognizable but often coated with a veneer of nostalgia. Advanced (and NEW!) technology that allows us to recontextualize our world is a…
Transcendence, AR Viewports in Architecture
AR Pavilion Starts around 1:50 ABSTRACT With the advent and integration of modern technologies via current smartphone designs, augmented reality devices and experiences are now commonplace. Artists, corporations, and academia have been using smartphone experiences to capitalize on the affordances that mobile AR has to offer. From selling home-goods to tabletop gaming, these types of…
What is an Augmented Intermediate Layer, or AIL?
Cross Post to Video Version As the physical and digital worlds begin to intervene in each of their respective realms, many are looking to mixed realities to parse information streams emanating from our ethereal and metaphysical lives. Formerly coined as mixed reality in 1994 [1], and what now some would, unfortunately, call the Metaverse™ [2];…
Dimensional Interpretation: 3DTechnologies vs. Popular Culture
Technology will never succeed in recreating the richness that the five senses deliver our brain to interpret our world. The human race’s innate ability to capture an orthographic record of our experiences has progressed over the millennia in the pursuit of an image that represents the most accurate depiction available during that particular…
