This document discusses the concepts of fantasy, reality, and the super-real experience enabled by virtual and augmented reality technologies. It suggests that VR and AR can create experiences that are more believable than fantasy but still feel super-real. Finally, it proposes that the super-real experiences made possible through these technologies may help bridge the gap between abstract theories and their practical applications by creating more immersive learning experiences.

1. SIG WELL
Fridolin Wild
Performance Augmentation Lab,
Knowledge Media Institute
Ralf Klamma
Informatik 5
RWTH Aachen
Ilona Buchem
Beuth University of
Applied Sciences

2. 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. 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. 4
The new real
reality?
fantasy
believable
super-real
VR AR

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From Overlay to Gateway
sensor-sensory loop:
super-real experience

6. The traditional route
to knowledge.
Photo: Simon Q (flickr)6
The Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford University

7. MATERIALS
(e.g. yarn 76/2 710)
MACHINES
Machine parts Materials
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
AND SAFETY
SET UP PARAMETERS
Its practical
application.
Dornier Lindauer Weaving Mill on the Zuleeg GmbH shop
floor.

8. Mend the dissociative gap.
Photo: Marco Leo (flickr)
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The believable super-real can close the dissociative gap
between abstract theory and its practical application.

9. The END is the BEGINNING :)
John Tenniel, Illustration for
Lewis Carroll’s ‘Through the
Looking Glass’
http://ea-tel.eu/special-interest-groups/well/