Fated Ascent

Fated Ascent is a app for your phone or tablet. It allows you to leave your mark in a whole new way. It was displayed at STRP Biennial (15th of april, 2015) and i was told that when backpackers travel they leave a rock at certain points to show that they have been there. But Fated Ascent has put a spin on this concept and made it futuristic and everlasting.

Based on the gps location of the pile of rocks you can leave yourself on one of them. You take a picture of yourself and put it with the app on the rocks. As you can see on the video it’s in 3D which makes it even more life like. This way your mark will stay there long after your gone.

Right now it is not possible to actually put your self on one of these rocks but the technology is there. Fated Ascent is still developing. It works pretty much the same as Layar. A virtual layer is placed on actual real life footage creating a whole new world.

As i said earlier Fated Ascent is a really cool way to capture your self and leave a digital mark. It fits right in with the modern day habit to capture everything around us. (See Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook for example) It is also a kind of cool thought to leave a mark which theoretically could stay there for ever.

The concept fits in really well with the trend internet of things because even rocks in the middle of nowhere can be layered with a picture of you! It shows that the internet has no boundaries or borders. Fated Ascent allows you to experience other people’s trips through your phone. Which might make yours less lonely and fits in perfectly with our inline lives.

There is just one point of criticism or maybe more of a question. Is there a good wifi or 3g connection in a dessert, on a mountain or in a forest. If not you might want to ask what is the use of this app. But as mentioned earlier it’s a concept (a very cool one) and it is still developing.

Sheer genius! (aangepast)

A few years apple released the Ipad. This wasn´t the first tablet but was the start of a revolution. More and more people own a tablet and use it regularly. As we know developments in technology never stop but the tablets did not really advance with staggering new features.

(http://msrvideo.vo.msecnd.net/rmcvideos/230399/230399.mp4)

In our quest for finding new things  Microsoft may have the answer. The FlexSense is a sheer plastic sheet that you lay over your tablet. This sheet gives your tablet screen another dimension that you can easily peel off or peek under.

But whats behind this? The internet of things is the first one that comes to mind. Even technology that is already connected gets another layer to it. Literally and figuratively. Another quite obvious trend would be technologising. In the form of Focus of Shift. Adding on the layer on a screen opens up a whole new world of possibilities. Secret messages, maps, pictures. In a world where more is more when it comes to technology this could be a really cool invention

So in our digitizing age even our technology isn´t safe. Sadly this is just a prototype but augmented reality is on the rise and this might be a extraordinary example of tech on tech. What do you think? Just another prototype without relevance or the start of a new revolution?