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Audio Augmented Reality (AAR) technologies are now coming to market, and this technology presents new opportunities for information and experience design. Collaborative or multiplayer experiences in AAR are potentially an exciting opportunity as they allow users to interact in real-time and space with each other, without the barrier of a screen. However, opportunities for multiple participants nevertheless remain under-researched. As part of their PhD programme in Media and Arts Technology at Queen Mary University London, Anna Nolda Nagele and Valentin Bauer undertook a placement with BBC Research & Development. In the first of two posts, Anna writes about how the pair developed a four-player performance-based experience in AAR: "Please Confirm You Are Not A Robot".
The game is set in a not-so-distant future, where participants are invited to deprogram themselves from their digital rituals and practice real human interactions, to listen to each other and the world around them. A voice assistant called "Pi" guides the group through four exercises, which gradually increase the level of human interaction. As the story goes on, Pi displays more and more human features and discovers the players' feelings and fears. The experience ends by Pi trying to find their voice through one of the participants, prompting the participants to tell the others "Enjoy reality as long as it lasts" and to free them by taking each player's glasses off their heads.
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