{"id":16875,"date":"2015-12-30T22:18:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T03:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=16875"},"modified":"2015-12-30T22:18:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T03:18:03","slug":"souvenirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=16875","title":{"rendered":"Souvenirs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is much talk these days about the future of Virtual\/Augmented Reality being a lightweight pair of glasses that will just be part of our everyday lives.  I have been guilty of such talk myself. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<p>Of course, even people who work on Virtual Reality still think about tangible objects in the physical world.  For example, when I visited Facebook \/ Oculus recently with some colleagues, we were each given, as a souvenir, a cool drinking glass with the Oculus logo etched into it.<\/p>\n<p>As it happens, one of the other people in our group couldn&#8217;t attend.  Our host, seeing how much I liked those drinking glasses, gave the extra one to me.<\/p>\n<p>So I ended up flying back to NY with two of these in my carry-on backpack.  I can attest that they are very well made, and make an excellent matched set.  I find myself using them every day.  Below you can see them as they are today in my real life kitchen.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/oculus_glasses.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This means I may very well be the first person in history to visit Facebook and walk out with a fully-functional pair of Oculus glasses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is much talk these days about the future of Virtual\/Augmented Reality being a lightweight pair of glasses that will just be part of our everyday lives. I have been guilty of such talk myself. \ud83d\ude42 Of course, even people who work on Virtual Reality still think about tangible objects in the physical world. For &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=16875\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Souvenirs&#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\/16875"}],"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=16875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16878,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16875\/revisions\/16878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}