{"id":23431,"date":"2021-06-24T13:34:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T18:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=23431"},"modified":"2021-06-24T13:34:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T18:34:16","slug":"new-toys-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=23431","title":{"rendered":"New toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while I get new toys. I guess I should qualify that.<\/p>\n<p>These are not &#8220;toys&#8221; like when I was seven years old. They are actually various kinds of professional equipment.<\/p>\n<p>In just the last few weeks I&#8217;ve gotten a fancy new VR headset with gaze tracking, a camera that senses both color and depth, and a pair of gloves that accurately tracks your finger movements. I&#8217;m using it all for work.<\/p>\n<p>But still, they are toys, if I am being honest. I love creating things in computer graphics and animation, and every new piece of equipment allows me to do that in new and exciting ways.<\/p>\n<p>So this is a nice case of professional productivity coinciding with fun. The more fun I have, the more I get done.<\/p>\n<p>OK, maybe these <i>are<\/i> toys like when I was seven years old. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while I get new toys. I guess I should qualify that. These are not &#8220;toys&#8221; like when I was seven years old. They are actually various kinds of professional equipment. In just the last few weeks I&#8217;ve gotten a fancy new VR headset with gaze tracking, a camera that senses both &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=23431\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New toys&#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\/23431"}],"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=23431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23432,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23431\/revisions\/23432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}