I am trying to work out details of a mixed reality tabletop set-up that I’m designing. As part of that process, I am building a version of it as a 3D model on my computer.<\/p>\n
Today I found myself looking at items in the real world, and creating rough models of those same objects in the virtual world. I’m not trying to replicate reality here — I’m just trying to represent parts of it as simple proxies.<\/p>\n
There is a kind of head-spinning hall of mirrors aspect to this process. I am looking at my laptop screen while typing on it to create a version of the very screen and keyboard that I am looking at, and even of the table that my laptop computer is sitting on.<\/p>\n
At some point in this hall of mirrors the real and the virtual can start to get all jumbled up in my mind. I’m not sure that this is entirely a bad thing — maybe it just means that it’s all working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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