{"id":7681,"date":"2020-11-06T23:07:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T23:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dunawaysmith.com\/site\/?p=7681"},"modified":"2020-12-10T20:57:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T20:57:15","slug":"how-many-ways-can-you-use-a-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dunawaysmith.com\/site\/2020\/11\/06\/how-many-ways-can-you-use-a-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons in AR: How many ways can you use a hammer?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve come to realize that I had some pretty rigid ideas about what augmented reality is\/is good at\/etc. I thought of it as interactive art. I know now (thanks to my time at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adobe.com\/about-adobe\/ar-residency.html\">Adobe AR residency<\/a>) that augmented reality is much, much more than that. It can be used as a live-compositing video tool for film making, etc. It can be a used for making compelling photographs. There is no reason that one type of AR is worth more than any other AR usage. It\u2019s a tool. There are probably millions of ways to use it. This is the period when we start to explore those uses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It\u2019s a tool. There are probably millions of ways to use it. This is the period when we start to explore those uses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My advice: get weird with it. Really find the edges. Also, wipe clean any pre-existing mental models as possible. I say that, knowing full well how hard that is. I don\u2019t think I successfully pull it off that often.&nbsp; <em>(Almost never.)<\/em> But, I when I do, it\u2019s cool. Sometimes, very cool.  Sometimes, being an artist feels like being an explorer, a treasure hunter (ahem, or addict) hunting for that next fix. 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