Jonathan E. Abel, "The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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The Relationship Between Game and Augmented Reality
The Steins Gate is not either of those things in the sort of way that we think about like a Pokemon go as being augmented reality and it's not, which in terms of you're just streaming. But at the same time, there are elements of that that are coming through and also that that's a weird fourth wall breaking quality where you get addressed by the character. So I think it's a really interesting example of a lot of different things that are happening in other other game spaces right whether they be on screen game spaces or off screen game spaces. And for me this really became crystallized when I started getting bored of hitting the the same button again and again to turn the page essentially
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