{"id":16732,"date":"2015-11-18T00:34:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T05:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=16732"},"modified":"2015-11-19T00:35:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T05:35:03","slug":"every-six-months-or-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=16732","title":{"rendered":"Every six months or so"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started to notice that my research undergoes a paradigm shift about once every six months or so.  I&#8217;m not sure why this happens at six month intervals, but I suspect it&#8217;s connected to the energy of a new semester.<\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 2013 I discovered HTML5 and Javascript.  I dropped Java like a rock, and I&#8217;ve never looked back.<\/p>\n<p>In the winter of 2013-2014 I started the Chalktalk &#8220;magic drawing&#8221; project.  It has pretty much been my personal mainstay ever since.<\/p>\n<p>In fall of 2014 our research group at NYU started to explore untethered social VR, using only lightweight headsets.  We have come to refer to this as &#8220;future Reality prototyping&#8221;.  It was clearly the right way to go.<\/p>\n<p>In spring of 2014-2015 my research group at NYU began to focus on artistically driven group projects shown in public.  It quickly became obvious that this was <i>really<\/i> the way to go.<\/p>\n<p>This fall &#8212; October and November 2015 &#8212; I realized that the best way to move things forward is to just give our technology freely away &#8212; both our technology and our know-how.  This is turning out to be a spectacularly successful plan.  We already have multiple partners from around the rorld for our various research project. <\/p>\n<p>I wonder what the next paradigm shift will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started to notice that my research undergoes a paradigm shift about once every six months or so. I&#8217;m not sure why this happens at six month intervals, but I suspect it&#8217;s connected to the energy of a new semester. In the summer of 2013 I discovered HTML5 and Javascript. I dropped Java like a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=16732\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Every six months or so&#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\/16732"}],"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=16732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16735,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16732\/revisions\/16735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}