{"id":18492,"date":"2017-03-09T17:48:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T22:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18492"},"modified":"2017-03-09T17:48:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T22:48:26","slug":"virtually-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18492","title":{"rendered":"Virtually me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today a friend gave me a wonderful gift &#8212; a mask made by an artist named David Lockard, whom I have never met.  But it is not just a mask.<\/p>\n<p>It is meant to be a &#8220;skin&#8221; for a virtual reality headset.  As you can see below, this virtual look is quite attractive on me.<\/p>\n<p>I love the idea of bringing the magical transformations of virtual reality out into the physical world itself.  After all, we already live in a society in which the boundary between the real and the virtual is being erased on all fronts.  Might as well have fun with it.<\/p>\n<p>Someday, a few years from now, there will be no need for such a mask.  I will be able to wake up in the morning and decide that this is what people will see that day when they look at me with their cyber-enhanced eyes.<\/p>\n<p>And if all goes well, whoever makes the software will even manage to make my virtual mask look like real cardboard.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/virtually_me.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today a friend gave me a wonderful gift &#8212; a mask made by an artist named David Lockard, whom I have never met. But it is not just a mask. It is meant to be a &#8220;skin&#8221; for a virtual reality headset. As you can see below, this virtual look is quite attractive on me. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18492\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Virtually me&#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\/18492"}],"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=18492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18494,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18492\/revisions\/18494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}