We have this great country because people have decided, over the course of a couple hundred years, that freedom is more important than their personal safety. Many gave their lives. Revolutionaries, soldiers, civil rights activists.
We have lost track of this great principle: that freedom is worth sacrifice. Without this principle, we are all victims of the terrorists, every day. Because they rule us through fear, we have spit upon the graves of the great citizens of the United States of America who gave their lives so that we could have this great country.
Ben Lindquist
Monday, November 22, 2010
Sunday, August 1, 2010
new reference grid
In the lower right corner you can see the new reference grid designed to keep people from being too disoriented in the blackness of cyberspace.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Snowstorm
The storm is a perfect illustration of the need for knowledge workers to work together within knowledge "worlds". The power of virtual reality is the sense of collaboration we can attain with other people; a sense which we know is important. We've all compared video conferences to traveling to be with a team face to face - and we realize the importance of really engaging with people.
One need only look at the oil graphs and container shipping I have been pushing to see that we have been dependent upon oil for transporting lots of things around the country, including ourselves. And the main reason most of transport ourselves - commute - around this great land is our need to be with people we work with. Being with people is what virtual reality - in its new form as "virtual world" - is all about.
Ben
One need only look at the oil graphs and container shipping I have been pushing to see that we have been dependent upon oil for transporting lots of things around the country, including ourselves. And the main reason most of transport ourselves - commute - around this great land is our need to be with people we work with. Being with people is what virtual reality - in its new form as "virtual world" - is all about.
Ben
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Thursday, January 14, 2010
2010
Well I've moved to Fairfax, VA. The DC area is hot.
I'm really excited about our new plugin API for Glasshouse; it's going to let lots of people build interactive, 3D applications which run in multiple virtual world platforms. I've already used it to produce a plugin called GridStack, which lets you choose columns from mysql databases and build graphs, stacking them in a correlated fashion... without leaving the virtual world or using ANY 2D user interface. This is the future of Glasshouse: visualizing the structure of datasources and using that within the virtual world to create visualizations of the data they contain. We'll be adding XMLA support next. Check out the video:
I'm really excited about our new plugin API for Glasshouse; it's going to let lots of people build interactive, 3D applications which run in multiple virtual world platforms. I've already used it to produce a plugin called GridStack, which lets you choose columns from mysql databases and build graphs, stacking them in a correlated fashion... without leaving the virtual world or using ANY 2D user interface. This is the future of Glasshouse: visualizing the structure of datasources and using that within the virtual world to create visualizations of the data they contain. We'll be adding XMLA support next. Check out the video:
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