Ingenious : Ken Perlin - Issue 32 : Space
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Ken Perlin doesn’t hesitate to say that he’s more than just a scientist. Along with being a professor of computer science at New York University and directing the NYU Games For Learning Institute, he said he’s writing, doing art, doing engineering— “I’m doing all sorts of things.” His blog, too, is polymathic, with posts that range in tone from deep to whimsical. The root of his passion could very well be his blog’s tagline: “Because the future has just started.” One way he’s already contributed to that future is helping to create, with his colleagues at NYU, the “Holojam,” an untethered virtual reality headset that enables a “community-created collaborative 4-D spacetime sculpture.” With Maria Lantin, the director of the S3D Centre at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, he’s going to facilitate (...)