{"id":22119,"date":"2024-08-02T14:51:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T21:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=22119"},"modified":"2024-08-02T14:52:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T21:52:39","slug":"throwback-behind-the-scenes-with-olympians-googles-ar-scan-van","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/02\/throwback-behind-the-scenes-with-olympians-googles-ar-scan-van\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback: “Behind the scenes with Olympians & Google\u2019s AR ‘Scan Van'”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m old enough to remember 2020, when we sincerely (?) thought that everyone would be excited to put 3D-scanned virtual Olympians onto their coffee tables… or something. (Hey, it was fun while it lasted! And it temporarily kept a bunch of graphics nerds from having to slink back to the sweatshop grind of video game development.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, here’s a look back to what Google was doing<\/a> around augmented reality and the 2020 (’21) Olympics:<\/p>\n

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I swear I spent half of last summer staring at tiny 3D Naomi Osaka volleying shots on my desktop. I remain jealous of my former teammates who got to work with these athletes (and before them, folks like Donald Glover as Childish Gambino), even though doing so meant dealing with a million Covid safety protocols. Here’s a quick look at how they captured folks flexing & flying through space:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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