Outrun, by Garnet Hertz: OutRun offers a unique mixed reality…



Outrun, by Garnet Hertz:

OutRun offers a unique mixed reality simulation as one physically drives through an 8-bit video game. The windshield of the system features custom software that transforms the real world into an 8-bit video game, enabling the user to have limitless gameplay opportunities while driving. Hertz has designed OutRun to de-simulate the driving component of a video game: where game simulations strive to be increasingly realistic (usually focused on graphics), this system pursues “real” driving through the game. Additionally, playing off the game-like experience one can have driving with an automobile navigation system, OutRun explores the consequences of using only a computer model of the world as a navigation tool for driving.

This is the Nissan LEAF Start-Up Sounds, which is an electric…



This is the Nissan LEAF Start-Up Sounds, which is an electric car and, as such produce almost no noise when starting.

Why do I blog this? Preparing our design fiction video in the Curious Rituals project, Walt showed us this sound as an interesting example of the near future has been represented, and what purpose it can service in the actual design

A Story In Fragments

There’s a story here. The bottle smashed on the ground is a lovely blue-green glass with a Sake label of some sort on it, probably from the pocket-sized Sake specialty store 10 meters or so back down the block. I don’t know if the smashed bottle, and the janky protective garbage bag over the driver’s side window here have anything to do with one another, but I wonder..

Why do I blog this?Thinking about how fragments of past experiences leave lingering traces to be interpreted and pondered over. Nothing forensic. Just materialized historic traces.
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