Here’s a lengthy exploration of visual illusions, which fits into a larger exploration of how we use media, and how media forms us. Online services are heavily media dependent with ubiquitous video, and various muliltmedia. Â Curation of video clips through AI algorithms is also a “media studies” topic. It behooves us to understand media, as Marshal McLuhan preached with his book of that title.
Our mediated world is only going to get more entangled as AR and VR become ubiquitous in months and years to come. To see the actual illusions “live” go to the article on the Vox website here.
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