{"id":19027,"date":"2017-07-30T17:39:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T22:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=19027"},"modified":"2017-07-30T17:39:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T22:39:53","slug":"vr-in-the-material-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=19027","title":{"rendered":"VR in the material world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the first day of the big annual SIGGRAPH conference, which this year is in LA.  Our group has two interactive VR experiences this week, so it&#8217;s going to be a busy time (and hopefully fun too).<\/p>\n<p>It always amazes me how these large empty conference spaces become transformed for such events.  Below are two photos I took from my phone, one yesterday and one today.<\/p>\n<p>I love how just a little bit of lighting and window dressing can change the entire feel of a space.  Yesterday this hall was a construction zone.  Today, it&#8217;s a wonderland where people experience the latest in VR coolness.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/siggraph1.png\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/siggraph2.png\"><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the first day of the big annual SIGGRAPH conference, which this year is in LA. Our group has two interactive VR experiences this week, so it&#8217;s going to be a busy time (and hopefully fun too). It always amazes me how these large empty conference spaces become transformed for such events. Below are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=19027\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VR in the material world&#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\/19027"}],"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=19027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19031,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19027\/revisions\/19031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}