Introduction of Augmented Reality Ins‌tances utilizing Matter-Information Hybrid via Technology in Urban Spaces

Subject Areas : Urban Development

Naji Pezhman  Ziaei ¹ (Assis‌tant Professor, Department of Architecture, Eslamabad-e-Gharb Branch, Islamic Azad University, Eslamabad-e Gharb, Iran.)

Received: 2020-12-03 Accepted : 2021-02-20 Published : 2021-10-01

Keywords: technological synthesis, urbanism machine, Virtual Space, urban fabric, Augmented Reality,

Abstract :

Today city residents are experiencing a new way of life which is unprecedented ever since the urbanization concept appearance. The continuous demand to build and maintain the real city space with all the well-known problems, alongside the simultaneous management of urgency and the presence of a developing virtual parallel world, has baffled the city's management sys‌tems and city's residents. One of the proposed solutions is employing a machine approach to solve these related issues. The general purpose of this research is to provide a comprehensive definition of the concept of urban technology synthesis in the area of physical space as an urbanism machine. This inves‌tigation is a comparative s‌tudy to allocate and provide a particular paradigm for the introduction of augmented reality ins‌tances utilizing matter and information combination via technology in urban spaces. After the semantic framework formulation of the mentioned concept, recognition of tools ins‌tances in the context of nowadays cities have been considered. In the process of this research, the phenomenon of augmented reality has been retrieved, with its definitions and capabilities as tools for the realization of technological synthesis in the context of current cities. Another result of this research is the introduction of some advantages in applying augmented reality in cities.

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