The Gardening Mind by Jo Thompson

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FINALLY, we get to see what the wearer of the AR goggles can see

FINALLY, we get to see what the wearer of the AR goggles can see

This is mind-blowing

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A bonus post, because I absolutely had to show you this video of what can be seen by the wearer of the Augmented Reality goggles

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We've designed a show garden for the 2024 Shenzhen Flower Show - and I thought we’d try something different. Why not do something that’s never been done before, in a country thousands of miles away, where we can’t even get to until next week? So it’s all being built without us there, and it’s all brand new technology…..

And why commit to sharing this great big gamble with Substack? You may well ask…

What our Chinese landscapers are building is this:

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'I Live in Nature' show garden

They’re setting out the garden by what the goggles tell them, instead of using a tape measure and plans as you’d normally do:

But what they can actually see with their goggles on, is THIS. Watch this video and tell me it doesn’t blow your mind:

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