Next New

What I would consider a new media would be interpersonal communication without the content shock of the current media venues. Despite the fact that Intel ceased its development of their “Vaunt smart glasses”, it would still be the perfect medium for this kind of communication. Vaunt were made to look like a regular pair of glasses that used a “low-power laser to beam a low-resolution image into your peripheral vision, directly onto your retina”. Similar to Google glass but without the obtrusive hardware, these glasses had the added benefit of others around you not being able to see what you see. It would have still needed the internet for some things, but it could have allowed people using something like “Firechat” that can work via airdrop instead. It also had promise of developing more VR features so that you could actually walk with someone not near you and "see" them beside you. That stated, a new type of chat that only allows invited users without ads, or marketing or the internet which would be able to be accessed without those around you even knowing you are looking at it would be the next wave of new media for those that have run out of patience with corporations infiltrating and prostituting users' information every second.