Here is a simple question: Will blended reality ever get to the point where it will feel good to share a drink remotely?<\/p>\n
Or is having a beer together something that simply requires physical co-presence, on a fundamental level?<\/p>\n
It’s a simple question, but I suspect that the answer, one way or another, may have profound consequences.<\/p>\n
It’s a question I have been revisiting from time to time. The first time I wrote about it on this blog was back in 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n I’m revisiting it now because this week at the virtual SIGGRAPH conference we are offering an immersive experience called The Outpost<\/b> in which everyone goes into VR and shares a drink. Of course, since it’s only 2020, you need to bring your own drink.<\/p>\n But maybe one day the world will evolve. On that fine day, when you enter VR, the drinks will be waiting for you. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here is a simple question: Will blended reality ever get to the point where it will feel good to share a drink remotely? Or is having a beer together something that simply requires physical co-presence, on a fundamental level? It’s a simple question, but I suspect that the answer, one way or another, may have … Continue reading “Sharing a drink remotely”<\/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\/22501"}],"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=22501"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22507,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22501\/revisions\/22507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}