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Oct 1, 2017

Whatever you say, happens

Live creation of VR/AR experiences — This post was written for the Live 2017 workshop at the ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH). Moatboat is a way to create experiences in virtual reality and augmented reality using your voice. The goal is simple: “Whatever you say, happens.” …

Virtual Reality

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Whatever you say, happens
Whatever you say, happens

Feb 18, 2016

Degrees of Presence in Virtual Reality

Virtual reality makes you feel like you’ve been transported into another world. People call this feeling presence. Augmented reality has presence too, but it’s inside-out: it feels like virtual objects have been transported into the real world. I used to be a VR skeptic. I’ve grudgingly progressed from Bret Victor-ian…

Virtual Reality

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Feb 17, 2016

The Paper Jam

Fifty years ago, the pioneers of personal computing — people like Ivan Sutherland, Alan Kay, Seymour Papert, and Doug Engelbart — were inventing a future where every adult and child in the world could use a laptop to augment their intellect. Sutherland showed how people could animate digital images to…

Education

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