{"id":15697,"date":"2015-02-01T20:20:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T01:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=15697"},"modified":"2015-02-01T20:20:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T01:20:46","slug":"over-coffee-with-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=15697","title":{"rendered":"Over coffee with Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was having a coffee with my mother today, and she asked about my research.  After explaining what we are building at NYU, I described some of the longer term consequences of this kind of collaborative VR work, after the technology has matured and become widely available at the consumer level.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For example,&#8221; I said, &#8220;you and I could be having this face to face conversation over coffee, and decide to move our discussion to a mountain in the Himalayas, or to a cafe overlooking the Grand Canal in Venice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My Mom approved wholeheartedly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was having a coffee with my mother today, and she asked about my research. After explaining what we are building at NYU, I described some of the longer term consequences of this kind of collaborative VR work, after the technology has matured and become widely available at the consumer level. &#8220;For example,&#8221; I said, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=15697\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Over coffee with Mom&#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":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15698,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15697\/revisions\/15698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}