{"id":21056,"date":"2019-04-27T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21056"},"modified":"2019-04-27T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T21:45:00","slug":"hobnobbing-with-our-fellow-wizards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21056","title":{"rendered":"Hobnobbing with our fellow wizards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, people seem to really like CAVE. Today I read <a href=https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/are-shared-experiences-the-future-of-virtual-reality>a very nice article about it on techradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last night at a small party thrown by Bose, we got to spend a lot of time in deep philosophical conversation with Paul of Felix and Paul. I&#8217;ve been a fan of their pioneering VR work for years, so it was fascinating to meet him and to get his perspective on all this.<\/p>\n<p>Then this morning, of course, I made sure to watch the new Felix and Paul VR piece <i>Gymnasia<\/i>, which is also showing at Tribeca. It was beautiful, as well as disturbing in all the right ways.<\/p>\n<p>I think people are really starting to figure out this medium. And that is not is not so easy, because it requires a new visual language.<\/p>\n<p>After all, after the Lumiere brothers started to popularize projected cinema<sup>1<\/sup>, eight more years had to pass before someone finally created the very first movie close-up<sup>2<\/sup>. So I guess we are not doing so badly.<\/p>\n<p><small><br \/>\n1. In 1895<br \/>\n2. <i>The Great Train Robbery<\/i>, in 1903<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, people seem to really like CAVE. Today I read a very nice article about it on techradar. Last night at a small party thrown by Bose, we got to spend a lot of time in deep philosophical conversation with Paul of Felix and Paul. I&#8217;ve been a fan of their pioneering VR work for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21056\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hobnobbing with our fellow wizards&#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\/21056"}],"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=21056"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21065,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21056\/revisions\/21065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}