AR experiences produce a felt separation between map and territory, not confusion.

Evidence

What Google’s projecting glasses help us to see is that this instinctively reflexive double consciousness relates less to the collapsing of the map into the territory (and to mental confusion) than to a detachment between the two. Judging from their current form, which is still very crude, glasses of this kind, by indicating that there is a service station or a pizzeria hidden round the corner of the road, enable us to alternate very quickly between mediatised information and immediately perceptible data, while giving us a sensory experience of their separation: my eye must focus on one or the other. As in narrative immersion, we simultaneously keep one foot outside and one inside – while advancing directly on the two levels at once. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 471

Categorization

• XREF: Directly bridges from Frankfurt School aesthetics to digital platforms — the reader’s stated core goal. — connects to: Maps can construct territory rather than merely represent it — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 661; Maps can precede and shape territorial reality rather than merely reflect it. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 660; The map now precedes and engenders the territory, not the reverse — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 6 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Maps can construct territory rather than merely represent it #complicates (0.85) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 661
• Tele-operators experience a reversible shift of viewpoint without being deceived about their location. #exemplifies (0.85)
• Maps can precede and shape territorial reality rather than merely reflect it. #complicates (0.82) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 660
• The map now precedes and engenders the territory, not the reverse #contradicts (0.80) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 6
• Reality’s coherence depends on a reserve of un-mapped imaginary territory #complicates (0.75) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 403