Jonathan E. Abel, "The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
New Books in Communications
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The Relationship Between Game and Augmented Reality
Steins Gate is not augmented reality in the sort of way that we think about like a Pokemon go as being augmented reality and it's not which in terms of you're just streaming, but at the same time there is a lot of stuff that are coming through. I started thinking what's the difference between this and just watching a play through video on YouTube of the same thing. Is there a difference? And those sorts of questions came up again and again as I was kind of doing the research for this chapter of I kept finding these these the kind of repetition of these things in different spaces. That became part of the argument of the chapter as well.
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