XR for XR – Context Craft: An extended reality platform that transforms local environments through play

The aim of Context Craft is to develop a platform that shrinks the gap between imagination and reality. Players become crafters of their own context – hacking their reality for the benefit of themselves and their communities. Imagine if you could take what you made in Lego or Minecraft and make it in reality with household tools and some globally accessible waste (such as soda bottles, water bottles, sticks for core framework, plastic bags, fabric, cans etc.) and “mine” reality in order to transform it via polygon structures that can be used to make anything from furniture, to bike trailers to shelters and community buildings. XR (Cross or Extended Reality) is a recent, controversial, umbrella term that attempts to simplify the understanding and adoption of the full range of immersive technologies that generate new forms of reality, recognising that in the future we will see people interacting with the virtual world and real world in seamless and continuous ways, not bound by delineations of experience between VR, AR, and MR. Recently, another organisation Extinction Rebellion also adopted the acronym XR. This serendipity led to the questioning how can these XR technologies relate to our Extinction Rebellion (XR)?

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Carl H. Smith

Jay F. Cousins

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Publication date: July 2019

Publication date (Print): July 2019

Pages: 218-225

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Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2019

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Conference date: 8 - 11 July 2019

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Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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[1] S. Basden 2019 Extinction Rebellion isn’t about the climate Medium http://tinyurl.com/y2npjvdx retrieved 12 April 2019 )

[2] A. Bell 1898 Space frame principles, discussed in Wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_frame retrieved 12 April 2019 )

[3] M. Bookchin 1989 Remaking Society Black Rose Books

[4] R. Bringhurst 1992 The Elements of Typographic Style Hartley & Marks Publishers

[5] A. Cheok 2012 ICALT2012 keynote talk http://adriancheok.info/category-speech/icalt2012-keynote-talk-multi-modal-sensory-human retrieved 12 April 2019 )

[6] J. Cousins 2019 The Game Plays Me Medium https://medium.com/@jaycousins/the-game-plays-me-f3bae1b2863c retrieved 12 April 2019 )

[7] A. EropoB 2014 The STRAND version 2.0 Application of the rope out of the bottle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQeeJEpBYsg retrieved 12 April 2019 )

[8] S. Kaufmann 2008 Reinventing the Sacred Basic Books

[9] J. McGonigal 2010 Reality is Broken Penguin

[10] M. Pedros 2016 Micaella Pedros [online portfolio] https://www.micaellapedros.com retrieved 12 April 2019 )

[11] Roko 2012 Roko’s basilisk Rational Wiki entry https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk retrieved 12 April 2019 )

[12] R. Sapolsky 2017 Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst Penguin Press

[13] C. Smith 2014 Context Engineering Hybrid Spaces for Perceptual Augmentation Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2014) British Computer Society London

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