I’ve been thinking about what to call our platform that allows multiple people to roam around a room together while seeing and hearing an alternate version of their shared physical reality. It occurs to me that it could be interesting to tie it into the seminal 1947 essay by Tolkien that I blogged about several months ago On Fairy Stories.
After all, Tolkien’s description of “Faërian Drama” within that essay is a very nice summary of the possibilities of fictional narrative using the tools we are developing. So why not look to it for inspiration when naming our project?
In that spirit, I think we might want to describe what we are doing in a way that produces an apt acronym: Shared Highly Immersive Reality Emulation