{"id":5739,"date":"2009-03-04T01:04:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-11T13:09:24","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:24","slug":"the-worldbuilder-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/the-worldbuilder-interface\/","title":{"rendered":"The Worldbuilder Interface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThis lovely short film presents an original scenario for a future interface to virtual world making. Like the famous Apple Navigator film from decades ago, or ATT&#8217;s You Will series of ads, or the Minority Report&#8217;s scene of transparent gesture interface, this fictional depiction is convincing and inspiring. I want one now.&#160;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<object width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3365942&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3365942&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/3365942\"><br \/>\n<br \/><\/a>There are elements of the <a href=\"http:\/\/sketchup.google.com\/\">Google Sketchup<\/a> interface taken to an extreme. I think it works.&#160;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlso, the film has a lovely narrative arc, which aids in the fantasy. The film was made by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.branitvfx.com\/\">Bruce Branit<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nUPDATE: Stewart Brand brought to my attention a real-world case of world-building. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.byhook.com\/video\/telematics.html\">Here<\/a> is a back-story video showing off the making of a 1,200 building city (7 million polygons in MODO) for a Toyota\/Lexus commercial created by the design firm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.byhook.com\/\">Hook<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/bh.jpg\" height=\"204\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Bh\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This lovely short film presents an original scenario for a future interface to virtual world making. Like the famous Apple Navigator film from decades ago, or ATT&#8217;s You Will series of ads, or the Minority Report&#8217;s scene of transparent gesture &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/the-worldbuilder-interface\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[269],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}