Augmented reality articles
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‘Intense and insane’: was this the most unsettling reality TV show ever?
In the new documentary The Contestant, a Japanese man is put through an astonishing TV experience for more than a yearWhen Tomoaki Hamatsu, an aspiring comedian from the Japanese province of Fukushima, auditioned for the reality show Susunu! Denpa Shōnen in January 1998, he arrived with zero expectations and a dream for some fame. Reality television was still in its wild west infancy – no contracts, no protections, still just a handful of home-grown personalities. The new frontier of reality...
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How media memory holes are erasing reality and rewriting your worldview
The media is being used to change your perception of reality.Memory is important. It’s more than a record or the sum of our experiences. It’s more than the mere chronicle of our lives and the tally of good and bad lessons learned. Although our memory is those things, it is fundamentally the key to who we are.We are cutting the flowers of our future. This only happens if we allow someone to cut us from the root.Entities that lose their memory, whether it be people, groups, or nations, don’t...
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Documentary reveals bizarre 1990s Japanese reality show
TOKYO >> Naked and frail, a shaggy-haired man films himself as he endures solitude in a tiny room for months, and months more.