{"id":258,"date":"2012-02-23T07:50:06","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T07:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/interaction2012.coin-operated.com\/?p=258"},"modified":"2012-02-23T17:55:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T17:55:13","slug":"interaction-over-distance-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/interaction2012.coin-operated.com\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"Interaction over distance PT 1 \/ SEEING PRESENCE ( Feeling Presence is Pt 2 );"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ask anyone, like your parents or maybe your grandparents if your parents happen to be of the &#8220;progressive type&#8221;\u00a0 and they will tell you that communication \/ interaction over distance has gotten wayyyyy much easier.<\/p>\n<p>My parents use Skype to talk to their friends in distant lands\u2026.My parents don&#8217;t really speak English\u2026but they can speak Skype.<\/p>\n<p>You can now-a-day reach anyone\/anywhere\/anytime within seconds.\u00a0 You actually don&#8217;t have an option of being &#8220;not in&#8221;&#8230; like back in the day of the, what you call it, oh yea, the answering machine and the home telephone system.<\/p>\n<p>So, that&#8217;s that. Distant communication via machines of the technology breed will only get easier and faster. Once we get those invisible portable screens, we will truly enter the virtual reality.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how I see this going down. You will use your iPhone or iWhatever to access someone. You will then get a real life live projection of that person in whatever space you happen to be in. It is like Skype( on steroids ) minus the screen interface( the wall of phone, computer, etc ) .<\/p>\n<p>Something like this:<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-258 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/interaction2012.coin-operated.com\/?attachment_id=259'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/interaction2012.coin-operated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/walkingMAN-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/interaction2012.coin-operated.com\/?attachment_id=260'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/interaction2012.coin-operated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/lean1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/interaction2012.coin-operated.com\/?attachment_id=261'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/interaction2012.coin-operated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ewan_me-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ok, \u00a0so here right above, \u00a0we have my personal update on the future of virtual communication&#8230;but i am not really all that satisfied with this turn of events of what the future holds.<\/p>\n<p>A solidifying, missing component , in this future of interaction (this might be more or less personal ) is TOUCH and FEEL.<\/p>\n<p>That lovely text message i might get from a loved one, feels exactly the same on my sleek, plastic phone as the message from my bank about my account being overdrawn.<\/p>\n<p>Soooo, I&#8217;m thinking about creating some objects ( since objects now can easily communicate over distance this shouldn&#8217;t be a problem ) that have personalized texture, feel, smell, color, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot remember last time I received something truly personal from someone&#8230;something that meant a lot&#8230;like in the movies ( sorry, this is very\u00a0kitschy ) when they go off to war or some other surreal place and it goes something like this: &#8221; I want you to have this&#8230;to remember me by&#8230; i will always be there with you&#8230;etc&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I would like to create objects that communicate with each other&#8217;s owners,\u00a0and at the same time can just simply represent the presence of the owner. After all, there are times, many times, \u00a0that I think of someone or miss them but don&#8217;t necessarily want to call\/text\/email&#8230;.i just want to feel their presence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask anyone, like your parents or maybe your grandparents if your parents happen to be of the &#8220;progressive type&#8221;\u00a0 and they will tell you that communication \/ interaction over distance has gotten wayyyyy much easier. My parents use Skype to talk to their friends in distant lands\u2026.My parents don&#8217;t really speak English\u2026but they can speak &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"http:\/\/interaction2012.coin-operated.com\/?p=258\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-work","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/interaction2012.coin-operated.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/interaction2012.coin-operated.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/interaction2012.coin-operated.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/interaction2012.coin-operated.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/interaction2012.coin-operated.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/interaction2012.coin-operated.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"http:\/\/interaction2012.coin-operated.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/interaction2012.coin-operated.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/interaction2012.coin-operated.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/interaction2012.coin-operated.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}