A Watchstone, fingernail-sized, embedded in a Victorian brick wall, faintly luminescent

LuminARy and the Watchstones

By Dr David Meridian @chainofconsciousness Author’s note. Some notes on the current state of AR and world-mapping technology, written from inside WeaponARy Corp’s research office in May 2026. Whether the prototypes I describe were installed eighteen months ago or eighteen years ago, I’ll leave open. Read it as fiction. Hold the parts that feel true. Personal transcript. A photograph can show you a street. It cannot tell you what is happening on it right now. ...

25 May 2026 · 18 min · 3719 words · Dr David Meridian