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# Re-Programme Your World with the Reality Editor App
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/re-programme-your-world-with-the-reality-editor-app/
- Published: 2015-12-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-06-14T05:00:25.000Z
- Description: A group at MIT Media Lab have created an app that allows users to edit their reality
- Author: Anna Burzlaff
- Tags: Seeds, Technology, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:25

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**MIT Media Lab have created an app that allows users to edit their reality.**   

MIT Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces Group have created an app with the potential to completely change how we interact with objects. [Reality Editor](http://www.realityeditor.org/?ref=protein.xyz) is an augmented reality application that allows a tablet or a phone to map a virtual interface onto an object.

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By pointing your phone at an object, its invisible capabilities (such as its timer, its thermostat, etc.) will become visible. Then you can reassign those capabilities to a totally different object by drawing a line from one component to the next within the app. For example, you can take a toaster’s timer and reassign it to your blender.

Reality Editor is still a long way from being a mass consumer device (no consumer products are currently supporting the app), but it does signal a step in a more empowered type of connected lifestyle, whereby the consumer can use and share all of their products’ functions at the touch of a button.