Empathy In Design and Development
Empathy – the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having...
Docker for front end development
I've dabbled in working with Docker ever since it first became available for the Mac as Boot2Docker but I never actually did anything with it. Not too long ago I started working with the idea of...
Quick Note: Loading images using javascript
I'm not a fan of doing this but there are use cases when we need to retrieve an image from the network and place it in the page. One case that comes to mind is the need to retrieve generated images...
Migrating projects to Gulp 4.0 and ES6
This post updates my April, 20016 post: Gulp Workflow: Looking at Gulp 4 and provides additional insights to what has changed and how to update existing Gulp 3 files to Gulp 4. Even though Gulp 4 is...
Digital Storytelling: Conclusion: Are we ready for the change?
Does anyone remember Google Glass and their deployment nightmares? Stories like the Seattle restaurant that banned Google Glass citing privacy concerns presents one of the first challenges to public...
Digital Storytelling: Hamlet on the Holodeck
A holodeck from Star Trek: The Next Generation The Holodeck is a lot more complex than I thought it was when I first started working on putting these ideas together. The stories we tell, how we tell...
Digital Storytelling: Creating Stories For The Metaverse
We've looked at three events I consider ancestors to our modern AR and VR efforts, we've looked at some of the technologies, both hardware and software, we can use to create AR and VR...
Digital Storytelling: Full, Immersive VR
We've looked at using beacons and we've began our discussion of digital storytelling using Augmented Reality. Now we'll look at a fully immersive experience using Virtual Reality Gear. This section is...
Digital Storytelling: Place-based stories
One of the things that has really caught my attention is place-based story telling. How can a place tell a story that is different depending on the occasion or the type of story we want to tell. The...
Digital storytelling
Building the holodeck # I've been in and out virtual worlds since I was an undergraduate in the mid '90s and man how have things changed between now and then. This series of essays outline some of the...