Contextual Narratives & XR
One of the interesting things about AR/XR is the ability to pack more information into a single space than was previously possible. Because AR/XR requires a personal viewport to interact with it, personalized experiences are achievable.
You can already post a mask to someone’s face. Imagine multiple friend groups in a middle school all “masking” Disney characters to their teachers, protagonists and villains. The only way you could see your friends choices would be to allow them individual access to your “art.” Different groups of friends would likely have different characters masked to the same teacher, and would be looking at those different faces in real time. How would the teacher know they were doing this if they weren’t told that the app existed? Perhaps they’d find out at the end of the year. Perhaps they’d confiscate a phone, but even if they did that, they’d have to point the phone at their own face and take a picture to see what the app was doing.
In order to interact with AR or XR that exists in a permanent sense on the cloud you need a physical que to know it’s there at all. These physical ques will standardize in the same way stop signs have, eventually.
What might the design system that will allow us to recognize the possibility of AR and XR opportunities look like?
