{"id":18372,"date":"2017-02-08T19:43:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T00:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18372"},"modified":"2017-02-08T19:45:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T00:45:22","slug":"women-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18372","title":{"rendered":"Women of the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judging by today&#8217;s news, Mitch McConnell has apparently decided to do everything he can to help Elizabeth Warren become our 46th U.S. President.  So I figure that &#8220;women of the future&#8221; would be an appropriate theme for the day.<\/p>\n<p>Today we invited twenty five ten year old girls to experience shared immersive virtual reality in our brand new VR lab at NYU.  They were a Brownie troop here in NYC that, when asked what they wanted for a field trip theme, had voted for &#8220;Entertainment Technology&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>When they arrived at our lab we invited them, four at a time, into our FLOCK shared VR piece, and I have never seen a group of kids more excited.  In no time they were laughing, running around, pointing at things, holding hands and giggling like crazy.<\/p>\n<p>The experience wasn&#8217;t something you can get commercially yet.  So these kids were actually being treated to a rare glimpse of the future.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe a few of them will end up thinking &#8220;Hey, creating shared experiences with cutting edge technology is cool, I want to do this when I grow up.&#8221;  I am sure President Warren would approve.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/girls_in_flock.png\"><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judging by today&#8217;s news, Mitch McConnell has apparently decided to do everything he can to help Elizabeth Warren become our 46th U.S. President. So I figure that &#8220;women of the future&#8221; would be an appropriate theme for the day. Today we invited twenty five ten year old girls to experience shared immersive virtual reality in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18372\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Women of the future&#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\/18372"}],"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=18372"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18378,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18372\/revisions\/18378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}