{"id":182,"date":"2005-05-22T11:32:14","date_gmt":"2005-05-22T16:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=182"},"modified":"2024-11-20T10:31:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T18:31:18","slug":"the-wizards-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"The Wizard&#8217;s Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/pic\/wizoffunk.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot from Wizard of Funk\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>To be honest, I don&#8217;t pay as much attention to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.us.playstation.com\/content\/ogs\/scus-97319\/site\/\">Sony&#8217;s Eyetoy<\/a> as I probably should. Not that new interfaces aren&#8217;t interesting. They certainly are. It&#8217;s just that I&#8217;ve been waiting for that Power Glove-VR Goggle style 3D interface the title character from the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0113481\/\"><em>Johnny Mnemonic<\/em><\/a> whips out to retrieve data from a hotel fax machine(!) in Beijing. Guess I&#8217;ve been blinded, so to speak. Anyway, although it&#8217;s not a major product hit afaik (edit &#8211; at over 5 million sold according to reports, I guess it&#8217;s doing pretty good), it does seem like the <a href=\"http:\/\/eyetoy.com\/english\/index.html\">Eyetoy<\/a> is carving a nice niche for itself. Case in point is <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/games\/archives\/2005\/05\/21\/funky_town.html\">this entry<\/a> over on Gamesblog: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite the proliferation of rap, guns and cars there were a few examples of gaming innovation tucked away in the darker corners of the E3 show-floor. One of these was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playlogicgames.com\/wf\/index.php\"><em>Wizard of Funk<\/em><\/a>, the world&#8217;s first, get this, EyeToy RPG.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe I need to go back and listen to Eyetoy creator Richard Mark&#8217;s 2004 talk at Accelerating Change. The SLFuture Salon has a blog entry with links, so if you want to catch it, <a href=\"http:\/\/slfuturesalon.blogs.com\/second_life_future_salon\/2005\/04\/eyetoy_and_the_.html\">here&#8217;s that entry<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be honest, I don&#8217;t pay as much attention to Sony&#8217;s Eyetoy as I probably should. Not that new interfaces aren&#8217;t interesting. They certainly are. It&#8217;s just that I&#8217;ve been waiting for that Power Glove-VR Goggle style 3D interface the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=182\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[32,102],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retransmit","tag-industrial-design","tag-interfacedesign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2997,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/2997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}