Chapter 9

Super Real

Keywords

Magic, real, super real, immediate response, drag, inertia

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

—Arthur C. Clarke

Description

image Because touch is inherently physical, it creates a sense of direct interaction with and control of technology. You can create more fluid, natural experiences by mimicking real-world physical interactions and augmenting them beyond what is possible in the real world. Super realism pushes beyond what is physically natural so that experiences do more than is possible in the real world. At the same time, super real is an intuitive extension of the real. Super ...

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