Auger

An entire subset of the population spends most of their time not present to their surroundings and instead live their reality inside of the Mirror.

Augmented Reality The Mirror Post Human

From Bleedback Book 1 Redo

Below is an excerpt from the Story Bleedback Issue 1 Redo

We learn more about Andrei and Angella through their interactions with the variant factions that have descended on the city center. There is one group that are important to the story and whom Andrei holds much disdain for. In the story there is this entire subset of the population who spend most of their time not present to their surroundings (see Augers) and instead live their reality inside of the Mirror. It’s a much more extreme version of people walking down a busy sidewalk facetiming with friends and family. Technology allows people to place family members living on the other side of the world right next to them as they walk down a sidewalk. They are maintaining distant relationships while alienating those right next to them. Augers can customize how the city shows up to them by selecting a city skin transforming their city into a post apocalyptic wasteland filled with zombies, a castle from Game of Thrones, the jungle from Avatar or turn everyone into cute furry animals. In a world devastated by climate change, political upheaval and economic uncertainty the Mirror provides a seductive escape.

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