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<\/p>\nAs already mentioned, my host lost yesterday’s blog entries and so I’m re-entering them. I believe this is the last one, but I forgot the headline, it was a bit longer than the others and I don’t recall specifically what I said. And it’s not really all that important of course, so I’ll cut to the chase with something brief.<\/p>\n
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The lost post included this entry<\/a> from We Make Money Not Art<\/a> about a “Chameleon-Object<\/a>” designed\/fabricated by Janek Jonas (see above image) and this comment I made over on a Clickable Culture entry<\/a>: <\/p>\n There are things I can code into objects that simply cannot happen to real objects. As gaming becomes increasingly immersive, that unreality becomes significant (it’s a little like some new videogame characters that give people the creeps similarly to how the movie “Polar Express” creeped out people).<\/p>\n I’ve started playing with scripting to do things that fall into this. Not over-the-top stuff that people immediately recognize as unreal; subtle things that make you blink. It’s a fun area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n It also included me recognizing I’d stuck my foot in my mouth and being backed up into the one thing I know we can’t do right now in real world product design: llDie()<\/a>.<\/p>\n {Image Copyright \u00c2\u00a9 2004 Janek Jonas}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As already mentioned, my host lost yesterday’s blog entries and so I’m re-entering them. I believe this is the last one, but I forgot the headline, it was a bit longer than the others and I don’t recall specifically what … Continue reading