{"id":23358,"date":"2021-05-30T09:27:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T14:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=23358"},"modified":"2021-05-30T09:27:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T14:27:52","slug":"as-voltaire-never-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=23358","title":{"rendered":"As Voltaire never said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am building a geometric modeler for VR, and I am currently doing a lot of the development on a traditional 2D computer screen. That&#8217;s because I am still waiting on delivery of a pair of fancy gloves that will accurately track the movements of my hands and fingers.<\/p>\n<p>I have a VR system here, but I don&#8217;t see a point in designing with VR controllers, since I would only make all the wrong choices. I would end up designing for the controllers, rather than for my hands and fingers, and it would then be very difficult to change things around.<\/p>\n<p>I figure it is better for now to design with just the traditional mouse and keyboard. This way I will know for sure that I am not pretending to make something that will make use of the full power of hands and fingers.<\/p>\n<p>To misquote Voltaire, the good is the enemy of the great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am building a geometric modeler for VR, and I am currently doing a lot of the development on a traditional 2D computer screen. That&#8217;s because I am still waiting on delivery of a pair of fancy gloves that will accurately track the movements of my hands and fingers. I have a VR system here, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=23358\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;As Voltaire never said&#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\/23358"}],"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=23358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23359,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23358\/revisions\/23359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}