Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.

A view of the future living in a consumer-based augmented reality. It’s all a bit Gibsonesque – but a thoughtful video nonetheless. I was reading Mark Weiser’s original ubiquitous computing paper last week – I do wonder just how technology deterministic it has turned out to be – it set a research agenda for 20 years. The real question is does evocative visions of the future free the imagination or place limits on it?