{"id":15911,"date":"2015-04-02T20:39:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T01:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=15911"},"modified":"2015-04-02T20:52:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T01:52:22","slug":"wending-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=15911","title":{"rendered":"Wending wall"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall.”<\/i>
\n      — Robert Frost\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Time spent in shared virtual reality has changed my view of walls.<\/p>\n

Until now, I always thought of a physical wall as something that creates limits. You walk up to a wall, and then you can go no further. Specifically, a wall prevents you from getting to what is on the other side of the wall.<\/p>\n

If you are wearing a virtual reality headset and you walk up to a physical wall, it is still true that you cannot go through the wall. But the meaning<\/i> of the wall is now different.<\/p>\n

After all, why do you want to get to the other side of a wall? Because there is some place out there that you are interested in visiting, perhaps somebody you want to see or talk to, or some event you wish to attend.<\/p>\n

But in VR, all of the meanings become scrambled. You can see people, talk to them, attend events, wherever you are. A wall — I mean a physical, immutable wall in the real world — becomes not a barrier, but merely a guidepost.<\/p>\n

You walk up to that wall, you see it and feel it and touch it, and then you say “Ah, this is useful. I will use this to navigate, to help me orient myself on my way to where I want to go next. Maybe to visit a colleague. Or to drop in on a neighbor.”<\/p>\n

After all, as Robert Frost once said, good fences make good neighbors. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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