daarc
Abstract
Everyday, ubiquitous Augmented Reality (AR), presented through
wearable, fashionable all-day devices such as glasses, will become as
fundamental to our daily lives as smartphones are today - empowering users,
communities, business’, governments, and others to alter, augment, diminish or
otherwise mediate our perception of reality. In this viewpoint, we consider some of
the key societal changes and challenges posed by the pervasive adoption of
everyday AR and its ability to overlay shared, metaversal layers atop reality. We
argue this envisioned future provokes the need to consider new human perceptual
rights, governing the right to control what we perceive, and the extent to which it
is permissible to augment people, places, media and more. Ultimately, we reflect
on whether society is prepared for the mass adoption of a technology that will
fundamentally undermine the integrity of a common objective reality we all
perceive and experience.
