{"id":563,"date":"2009-03-18T04:43:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T03:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/?p=563"},"modified":"2009-03-18T05:19:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T04:19:50","slug":"jaron-laniers-message-to-vr-geeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/18\/jaron-laniers-message-to-vr-geeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaron Lanier&#8217;s message to VR Geeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still in Lafayette, Louisiana, attending the IEEE VR 2009 conference. We&#8217;re eating lots of hamburgers but the conference is just fabulous, I&#8217;ll try to talk to you about that soon.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I&#8217;ve had the chance to bump into VR Geeks idol <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jaron_Lanier\">Jaron Lanier<\/a>, early VR pioneer and &#8220;inventer&#8221; of the term &#8220;virtual reality&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He just received an IEEE VR award for his career, and his acceptance speech was really inspiring. Maybe the organizers will put a video of that online ?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, during the day I jumped on him as he was passing by the Virtools booth and interviewed him with some questions. I&#8217;m sure I could have thought about better questions but I didn&#8217;t really prepare for that and was quite overwhelmed =)<\/p>\n<p>His last answer is a summary of what he said during the reception tonight and I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll like it =)<\/p>\n[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DPYEZAHqotw[\/youtube]\n<p>&#8220;VR is the coolest technology you can be working on!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t agree more =)<\/p>\n<p>PS: Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/2007\/02\/02\/vr-to-create-a-new-communication-form\/\">the article I was talking about.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still in Lafayette, Louisiana, attending the IEEE VR 2009 conference. We&#8217;re eating lots of hamburgers but the conference is just fabulous, I&#8217;ll try to talk to you about that soon. In the meantime, I&#8217;ve had the chance&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[118],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cb.nowan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}