I am now used to the idea that I can have a skylight in my ceiling, even though I am not on the top floor of my apartment building. And I can have a portable chess set that can grow until the board is 10 feet wide.<\/p>\n
I can make it snow indoors if I want, and I can draw in the air to create shapes that come to life, like Harold with his Purple Crayon. I can rotate a hypercube in 4D right in the middle of my office, and I can pull the Moon down from the sky right into my bedroom.<\/p>\n
These are wondrous experiences, and I was able to create them because I have a Meta Quest 3 and I know how to program in WebXR. But such experiences won’t stay wondrous forever.<\/p>\n
Sometime soon, everyone will have magic glasses. And when that happens, things like this will becom an ordinary part of daily life.<\/p>\n
And then people won’t understand what the fuss was about. Just as people today don’t understand why a train coming toward you on a movie screen could ever have frightened anyone, or the how sound of a movie actor speaking could ever have seemed magical.<\/p>\n
And when that happens, I will miss these early days of wonder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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