{"id":5549,"date":"2014-10-19T20:51:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T20:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5549"},"modified":"2014-10-19T20:51:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T20:51:52","slug":"tra%d1%81es-augmented-reality-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5549","title":{"rendered":"Tra\u0441es &#8211; Augmented reality gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn25997-messaging-app-lets-you-leave-secrets-on-street-corners.html#.VEQhr4vF_Zf\">New Scientist article<\/a> I learned about <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/traces\/id893624958?ls=1&amp;mt\">Tra\u0441es<\/a>. Traces lets you leave a bundle of information (like a song and some greetings) for someone at a particular GPS location (and at a particular time.) You can thus use it to add gifts for other people to find. It strikes me a neat use of augmented reality. I can imagine all sorts of uses for it beyond gifts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One could use it to leave information about a place.<\/li>\n<li>It could be used by artists to leave AR works as imagined by William Gibson in\u00a0<em>Spook Country.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>One could create alternate reality games with it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alas, it is not available in the Canadian App Store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a New Scientist article I learned about Tra\u0441es. Traces lets you leave a bundle of information (like a song and some greetings) for someone at a particular GPS location (and at a particular time.) You can thus use it to add gifts for other people to find. It strikes me a neat use of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5549\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tra\u0441es &#8211; Augmented reality gifts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,52,28,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-locative","category-mobile-computing","category-online-publishing","category-playful-or-cool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5550,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549\/revisions\/5550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}