{"id":20861,"date":"2019-03-03T20:16:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T01:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=20861"},"modified":"2019-03-04T13:18:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T18:18:04","slug":"days-of-future-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=20861","title":{"rendered":"Days of Future Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we try to describe the new immersive cinematic medium that our Future Reality Lab is creating, exemplified by CAVE<\/a> at SIGGRAPH 2018, it’s difficult to properly convey the idea to people who haven’t seen it.<\/p>\n

We can’t just say something like this: “It’s like going to the movies crossed with theater crossed with being in a video game.” If we do that, people usually get the wrong idea about what we’re up to. They think that it’s a video game, or that it’s like Facebook Spaces<\/i> or High Fidelity<\/i>, when it’s really very different from any of those things.<\/p>\n

I find myself imagining a futurist in 1926, in days of future past, trying to explain the soon to be released film The Jazz Singer<\/i>. Maybe this visionary could say: “It’s like a movie, but with sound.”<\/p>\n

But that wouldn’t work, because movies already had sound. Pretty much every movie you went to back then had a score, and a very talented organist playing along.<\/p>\n

Maybe the futurist could say: “It’s like a movie, but people are talking.” But that wouldn’t work, because actors already talked in movies. And the intertitles were right up there on the screen, to tell you what they were saying.<\/p>\n

Maybe it would have worked best if the futurist had said: “It’s like a movie crossed with radio.” That might have sounded completely crazy to people in 1926, but they probably would have gotten the idea.<\/p>\n

We need to find our equivalent, for what we are doing in 2019, to “It’s like a movie crossed with radio.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When we try to describe the new immersive cinematic medium that our Future Reality Lab is creating, exemplified by CAVE at SIGGRAPH 2018, it’s difficult to properly convey the idea to people who haven’t seen it. We can’t just say something like this: “It’s like going to the movies crossed with theater crossed with being … Continue reading “Days of Future Past”<\/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\/20861"}],"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=20861"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20866,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20861\/revisions\/20866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}