I remember watching the movie Strange Days when I was younger and being struck by how cool it seemed. If you’re not familiar with the movie, Ralph Fiennes (who I remember as Jeff Bridges) is a former cop who deals in bootlegged discs with recorded memories. Users put on a helmet, a lot like the VR machines from those days, and experience a whole new reality. It was basically a movie about how virtual reality could screw up your existing reality and blur the lines between the two, generally making you crazy and ruining your life.
The movie seems loosely prophetic now, when companies like Google are dabbling in augmented and mediated reality. The concepts are similar to Strange Days but not nearly as dark and not necessitating nearly as cool a http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/4f7dc16f6bb3f7224a000085/forte-vfx-1-virtual-reality-helmet.jpg">helmet to experience them.
One such example is an app I downloaded recently called “Zombies, Run!” It is an exceptionally cool app that mixes running and story telling in an interactive way. Instead of telling zombies to run as t...
