The picture you see here is from a short film, “Augmented (hyper-) Reality: Domestic Robocop”. This is a short film directed by Keiichi Matsuda, Master's student at the Bartlett School of Architecture in the United Kingdom. I think it deserves top marks for its efforts to show us what could be the future.

I think I praised Augmented Reality on this blog before I even as the “Coolest Gadget Ever” at the CES 2009. I have since been many variations thereof, which were mainly for entertainment, with the exception of X-Ray Vision app driver. However, I have the dark side of the augmented reality view, and it hopefully never will be our future.

You can watch the video of him after the jump. You will notice that the viewer of logos, the gap must be linked to being bombarded with virtual posters on the wall. The user was then able to draw a window with a recipe of tea, and glasses, or whatever interface he was, knew exactly where the ingredients are combined.

My source compares this kitchen concept, something to Alice and Wonderland, but in all honesty, I'm on the dark world of the early nineties, cyberpunk, science fiction, like the works of William Gibson could be compared. Imagine bombarded with ads for companies that we are moving in our time. I think that we really want our programs augmented reality, what we take stock of the refrigerator? Honestly, I think, perhaps the final augmented reality: a dumbed-down society in which interfaces are constantly telling us what to do next.

Well, I do not want to conclude this article on a negative note and say that our humanity to be overcome by the will of our Technology. But I think there is a limit to how Augmented Reality should be used in the daily life of a person, and the protagonist of this short film is an overdose.