{"id":7671,"date":"2018-10-26T08:24:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T15:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=7671"},"modified":"2018-10-25T13:24:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T20:24:46","slug":"bumptop-is-back-now-in-ar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/26\/bumptop-is-back-now-in-ar\/","title":{"rendered":"BumpTop is back&#8230; now in AR!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I could find the joke video someone made when Google acquired the beloved email client Sparrow back in 2012. The vid presented itself as a cheerful tutorial on \u201cHow to prepare for the Sparrow Google migration\u201d that basically went like this:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open your Applications folder.<\/li>\n<li>Locate the Sparrow app icon.<\/li>\n<li>Now, carefully just drag it to the trash.<\/li>\n<li>Empty the trash.<\/li>\n<li>And voila, now you\u2019re ready for Google\u2019s ownership of this great app!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I\u2019ve thought of it countless times over the years, and I think of it now recalling <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BumpTop\">BumpTop<\/a>, a 3D desktop GUI that I first <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/06\/bumpin_3d_desktop_interface.html\">wrote about<\/a> 13 years ago (!):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6jhoWsHwU7w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Google acquired the tech &amp; team back in 2010, and then\u2026 nothing, as far as I know. (All this predated my time at the company, so I have zero inside info.) Empty the trash, and voila!<\/p>\n<p>But evidently not content to let things die, the BumpTop team has reemerged with <a href=\"https:\/\/spatial.is\/\">Spatial<\/a>, a new approach to team collaboration done via virtual &amp; augmented reality. Check it out:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PG3tQYlZ6JQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Will Spatial have more lasting impact than BumpTop? I have no idea! But I look forward to trying it out, and I\u2019m sure glad that teams like this are busy trying to make the world more delightful.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/NewImage-17.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"598\" height=\"292\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6jhoWsHwU7w\">YouTube 1<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PG3tQYlZ6JQ\">2<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I could find the joke video someone made when Google acquired the beloved email client Sparrow back in 2012. The vid presented itself as a cheerful tutorial on \u201cHow to prepare for the Sparrow Google migration\u201d that basically went like this:\u00a0 Open your Applications folder. Locate the Sparrow app icon. Now, carefully just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7673,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671\/revisions\/7673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}