Symbiotic Reality

On the one hand, we have augmented reality, which is all about living in the real world with a digital overlay.

On the other, we have virtual reality, which is all about being anywhere and nowhere all at once - a fully immersive digital world capable of breaking the laws of physics.

Both offer a digitally enhanced life experience.

Which is pretty cool.

Thing is, in a world now capable of alternate digital realities, I feel compelled to have three hands.

So, on my newly formed third hand, we're having Symbiotic Reality!

Symbiotic Reality is all about embracing the capability of augmented and virtual reality, blended together, to create new social constructs and experiences.

You have augmented reality experience creators that are fully immersed in a digitally enhanced world who are able to interact with real-time digital experience consumers, and that's where the virtual reality comes in.

For example, somebody goes to an event and interacts real-time with whatever the event is, which could be a gig, the Olympics, a war zone, or skating around Central Park - they could be an active participant, or the main event themselves. When they look around they will be able to see their audience, their followers if you will (Sound familiar? If not, check out my earlier posts), have interactive dialogue with the people that are virtually there, and the digital consumers are, to all intents and purposes, right there with the creator; able to see, hear, and interact as if they were there. Only they're a little safer from the war zone issues.

Imagine the empathic effect of a live news story as a tragedy unfolds, and you, as a digital consumer, are right there, real-time, as it happens. It would be revolutionary.

On a less dramatic scale, you could be in a virtual yoga class, fully immersed and able to solicit feedback real-time in a group environment, only the studio is miles away, inconvenient to get to, and you're an introvert or suffer from agoraphobia.

The possibilities that Symbiotic Reality opens up are endless.

Unashamedly Relevant Promo Op: Check out Fake Me There, a start-up all about making use of Symbiotic Reality.

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