{"id":15883,"date":"2015-03-26T19:07:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T00:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=15883"},"modified":"2015-03-26T19:07:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T00:07:38","slug":"goodnight-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=15883","title":{"rendered":"Goodnight moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David, a member of our research team, is working on a beautiful and inviting VR room.  Today we all tried it out.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine that you are in the book <i>Goodnight Moon<\/i>, except that it is a real place, and you can actually go up to the window, and look outside to see the moon and the stars.  It was like that.<\/p>\n<p>Taking off the headset was a bit of a shock.  Suddenly you&#8217;re back in the harsh realm of reality, without no lovely storybook fireplace, or cozy little bed or night table.<\/p>\n<p>After emerging back into the real world I said, to nobody in particular, &#8220;I hated to leave that place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One of the students nodded her head and said, &#8220;Yes I know.  I could have just stayed in there all day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I thought about that for a moment, and then I said to the students, &#8220;Maybe this is it, right here.  The beginning of the end for humanity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They knew exactly what I meant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David, a member of our research team, is working on a beautiful and inviting VR room. Today we all tried it out. Imagine that you are in the book Goodnight Moon, except that it is a real place, and you can actually go up to the window, and look outside to see the moon and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=15883\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Goodnight moon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15883"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15884,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15883\/revisions\/15884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}