{"id":23201,"date":"2021-04-13T13:32:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T18:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=23201"},"modified":"2021-04-13T13:32:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T18:32:28","slug":"text-in-the-air-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=23201","title":{"rendered":"Text in the air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a few years, when everyone gets used to wearing those extended reality glasses in public spaces, text will be everywhere. In particular, it will be floating in the air.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it will appear very large and looming against the sky. At other times it will show up on a convenient wall.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is the text that will be hovering between you and me during our casual conversation (perhaps when ordering from a restaurant, or spending time together reading an email from Mom). And then there will be text we carry with us, as a personal note or reminder, which nobody else can see.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what exactly this text will look like. Will it be bright and glowing? Will it look flat or three dimensional? Will preferred fonts be cartoonish or formal? Will it aim to grab our attention, or to blend unobtrusively into our world?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not really a question about technology, but about human preference. So I guess we will need to wait to see what answers will arrive in the laboratory of mass adoption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a few years, when everyone gets used to wearing those extended reality glasses in public spaces, text will be everywhere. In particular, it will be floating in the air. Sometimes it will appear very large and looming against the sky. At other times it will show up on a convenient wall. Then there is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=23201\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Text in the air&#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\/23201"}],"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=23201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23202,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23201\/revisions\/23202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}