{"id":4046,"date":"2016-06-20T07:59:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T14:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=4046"},"modified":"2016-06-19T23:59:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T06:59:55","slug":"vr-demo-using-gestures-for-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/20\/vr-demo-using-gestures-for-control\/","title":{"rendered":"VR demo: Using gestures for control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a rather nifty use of a phone\u2019s back-facing camera to enable gesture-based control in a Google Cardboard-style VR rig:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/70Cnd2WdAMU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nMy friend Andy notes, &#8220;It&#8217;s fun to think of a future of people waving their fingers around in public with no externally visible context&#8230; WE&#8217;LL ALL BE WIZARDS!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>TechCrunch offers a handful of <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/05\/17\/eyesight-vr\/\">additional details<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/INewImage-6.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"598\" height=\"288\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/70Cnd2WdAMU\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a rather nifty use of a phone\u2019s back-facing camera to enable gesture-based control in a Google Cardboard-style VR rig: My friend Andy notes, &#8220;It&#8217;s fun to think of a future of people waving their fingers around in public with no externally visible context&#8230; WE&#8217;LL ALL BE WIZARDS!&#8221; TechCrunch offers a handful of additional details. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4046"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4069,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/revisions\/4069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}