What if we could change reality and augment it with fantasy? Much of the magic of my childhood can be done by you and me today - using technology. In this talk, I show a few examples of magic, ghosts, and other techno tricks. Short version of a lecture given at the Sunday Assembly Oxford on April 12, 2015.

2. ‘happens’
points,features
things,places,people
groups,assemblies,structures
super-compounds,mega-structures
Ceci n’est pas
un caniche
reality
But I am a
poodle
??

3. fantasy
/ˈfantəsi,-zi/
Noun
1. the faculty or activity of imagining impossible or
improbable things.
"his researches had moved into the realms of fantasy"
synonyms: imagination, creativity, fancy, invention,
originality, vision, speculation, make-believe, daydreaming,
reverie

4. reality?
fantasy
believable
super-real

5. (With Paul Hogan, KMi)

6. 6

7. http://www.augmentedreality.org/#!smartglassesreport/c88h

8. CUTHBERT 1.0

9. (with Paul Hogan, KMi)

10. THE UNCANNY VALLEY
http://meikeharde.com/too-beautiful-to-be-true

11. GHOSTHANDS

12. (With Beppe Scavo, KMi)

13. OTHER TECHNO TRICKS

14. MAGICAL
GESTURES
(& OTHER
TECHNO
TRICKS)

15. THE NEW REAL?

16. FANTASY REALITY
CLOSING THE DISSOCIATIVE GAP
BETWEEN
16
Photo: Marco Leo (flickr)

17. FANTASY REALITY
CLOSING THE DISSOCIATIVE GAP
BETWEEN
17
Photo: Marco Leo (flickr)
Photo: Simon Q (flickr)
KNOWLED
GE
&
PRACTICE

18. The END is the
BEGINNING :)
John Tenniel, Illustration for
Lewis Carroll’s ‘Through the
Looking Glass’