{"id":266,"date":"2008-01-25T07:51:16","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T12:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fleeep.net\/blog\/?p=266"},"modified":"2008-01-25T07:51:16","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T12:51:16","slug":"kapor-says-lets-end-the-tyranny-of-geography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/kapor-says-lets-end-the-tyranny-of-geography\/","title":{"rendered":"Kapor says &#8220;Let&#8217;s end the tyranny of geography&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"blogHUDimg\" src=\"http:\/\/bloghud.com\/users\/fleeptuque\/snaps\/1201266184_snap_400.jpg\" \/><br clear=\"left\" \/>Work is being done to increase the &#8220;sense of presence&#8221; through better  gestures, avatar animations, and interfaces.  &#8220;If you do the math, the cost  savings to do meetings virtually at a distance instead of putting people on  planes is enormous,&#8221; says Kapor.  &#8220;Carbon offsets are one of these  intermediate solutions, if they are done well they do make a difference..  but it&#8217;s like trying to fill a bathtub with the stopper open.  I see this  causal change from 3D cameras, body language, more realistic intereaction,  to make virtual worlds more useful not just for people who want to explore  a different identity.. but ending the tyranny of geography [through virtual  meetings] is important.&#8221;<br clear=\"left\" \/>posted by <a href=\"http:\/\/my.bloghud.com\/fleeptuque\/\">Fleep Tuque <\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/visit.bloghud.com\/Reuters\/\">Reuters<\/a> using a <a href=\"http:\/\/bloghud.com\/\">blogHUD<\/a> : [<a title=\"a blogHUD post\" href=\"http:\/\/bloghud.com\/id\/17952\">blogHUD permalink<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work is being done to increase the &#8220;sense of presence&#8221; through better gestures, avatar animations, and interfaces. &#8220;If you do the math, the cost savings to do meetings virtually at a distance instead of putting people on planes is enormous,&#8221; says Kapor. &#8220;Carbon offsets are one of these intermediate solutions, if they are done well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloghud","category-second-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleeptuque.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}