What if you could spud TV with your eyeglasses , edit out in your head , and add electronic computer - generated imagery ? That ’s the assumption of Greg Pak ’s comic , Vision Machine , debut at NYCC . He tells us why people are too keen to give up concealment .
Greg Pak is the creator of one of our pet indie science fiction films , Robot Stories , as well as the writer of World War Hulk and many other great comics . He’sunveiling the first subject of Vision Machine tomorrow at his NYCC jury at 2:30 PM , and give out free copies on a particular USB drive with the logotype of Sprout Computers . Here ’s an single preview of the first seven pages :
So why is internet everting in Greg Pak ’s globe ? We asked him :
Augmented realness is a big theme in science fabrication correctly now , and glass like the iEye have popped up in a number of other “ cyberpunk ” piece of work . Were there any other treatments of this musical theme that you amount across which avail inspire you ?
The floor is actually a variation on an idea I ’d had for a jokey short film almost exactly ten year ago . The book was called “ A - Bans ” and it was a spoof commercial message for a technologically cutting - edge duad of glasses for Asian Americans that would make everyone in your POV look Asian — just for pull in things experience a minuscule more well-situated when you ’re the only nonage in the way . I never made the short , but the idea of a duo of trash that changes our sensing of the world stuck with me .
A year or so later , around the time I was making my feature film “ Robot Stories , ” I was mean a wad about all different kinds of penny-pinching future scenario , and the idea of a pas seul of A - Bans connected to the internet and accomplished with datum sheathing and facial credit software and instant word searches and everything else popped into my head . I considered doing something like that for the POV of the iPerson robots in the “ Machine Love ” story of “ Robot Stories , ” but decided in the final stage that it would overcomplicate that fair simple story . Oh , and we did n’t have the budget for it . 😉
And then two age ago , Orlando Bagwell of the Ford Foundation approached me about making a comical book that would assist independent media Jehovah envision the technological , sociological , and political changes that will transform the theater in the next fifty years . The idea of those crazy chicken feed popped back into my nous — but now with the added ability to directly record anything you could see or conceive of and share it with the man — the distillment of all of the pieces of personal applied science , social networking , and digital medium initiation and sharing that ’s been transform everything for the retiring fifteen years or so .
Caprica , obviously , has its own chicken feed , but they draw you into a cyber - world instead of create cyber - artifacts in the “ genuine ” world .
I really have n’t seen Caprica yet ! scandalous , I bonk , since I write so many Battlestar Galactica comics back when . Now you ’ve given me another incentive to enamour up .
How do you think draw in cyberspace out into the material world instead of “ jacking in ” to a cyber - world switch us ?
I think it ’s a grown divergence — when you have a practical overlay on the real world , you ’re still interact with chassis and blood people ; you may just sum up another layer onto the whole experience . I get laid the idea that you could have a duad of orcs sit next to you in a coffee bean shop class and you ’d never know it if you ’re not seeing the Earth through their practical hide . ( And if you ’re really interested in that particular scenario , definitely do n’t miss “ Vision Machine”#2 . )
Do you think that the metaphor of net is over now , and we ’re talk about augmented reality or else of internet now ?
I think augmented realism is where it ’ll go mainstream . Sure , there are millions of hoi polloi who are bury in virtual worlds right on now that exist entirely in cyberspace . But there are many millions more who do n’t have the time or interest to create virtual world but who would be wholly up for a little effortless sweetening of the substantial world . It ’s a bit like the difference of opinion between someone who wants to ramp up a computer from pelf and someone who really require a Macbook . For the person who wants to build from scratch , nothing could be more rewarding . But the average soul just want to catch the matter and start using it immediately .
Have you played with any augment realism applications programme that subsist now , like on Android phones ?
I have n’t — I ’ve just seen the articles and screenshots . It ’s kind of singular — a few months before I started seeing those articles , the brilliant Takeshi Miyazawa had done some substantiation - of - concept art for me for “ Vision Machine ” to show what the user interface might look like . Not so wildly far off from what ’s out there now !
It ’s one of the ongoing lessons of writing near - future skill fiction , though — get it done fast if you could , because reality ’s going to hitch up to your narration before you could blink .
I make out the fashion that personal oversharing and decreased barriers to entry for creators are the first phase angle of a process that finally chair to heightened surveillance . Do you retrieve this is genuine in general with new technology ? First the personal communion , then the corporate / government Panopticon ?
Sure . In some ways , “ Vision Machine ” is a huge cautionary story about the critical grandness of say user arrangement forms . And yet I myself almost never take ’em . Because I do n’t have the time or patience to slog through twenty Page of legalese . But we ’ve all pay up immense amounts of private information because we need the services and we trust the companies involved not to do anything more pernicious than channel a few point advertizement our way . But even if the Total Information Awareness nightmare scenario never comes to be , it ’s undeniable that the information ’s out there and a bug in the system could expose it to the world . We see that every sidereal day with ship’s company lose laptops containing gazillion of credit batting order or societal security numbers . We ’re give out to be grappling for the balance of our years with untold variations on dubiousness of privacy and surveillance and the ubiquity and permanency of digital record .
Issue#2of “ Vision Machine ” is where we start to search this side of the whole scenario in a lot more detail .
When will issues#2and 3 be available ?
The big plan is to have them come out monthly , so issue#2should reach in November and#3 in December . The individual upshot will come out digitally at Comixology and released into the natural state as pdfs . We ’ll also amass the whole mini and impress forcible books that will be stagger at special event , comics conventions , and film festival . Keep on study gregpak.com and my twitter feed at twitter.com/gregpak for the latest !
And finally , what else are you working on right now ? What ’s coming next ?
I ’m currently writing the “ Incredible Hulks ” and co - write “ Chaos War ” ( with Fred Van Lente ) for Marvel . “ Chaos War ” is a massive event comic in which Hercules and Amadeus Cho extend the gods of Earth against the Chaos King , the greatest threat world itself has ever faced . “ Incredible Hulks ” follows the Hulk and a band of his crazy , da Gamma - powered phratry and protagonist as they tackle the kinds of Hulk - sized threats only they could maybe handle . Add ’em to your pulling lists , kids !
Oh , and I ’ve lend another “ Rio Chino ” account about a Taiwanese gunslinger in the Old West to “ criminalize Territory , ” an anthology edited by the phenomenal Michael Woods that ’s amount out in the next month or so . Sean Chen pencilled “ Rio Chino , ” with inks by Sandu Florea and colors by Chris Sotomayor , and I ’m pretty thrilled about it — break out the pretty , pretty page below !
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