{"id":197,"date":"2017-09-13T18:24:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T18:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/?p=197"},"modified":"2017-09-13T18:24:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T18:24:42","slug":"its-the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2017\/09\/13\/its-the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Its the Most Wonderful Time of the Year&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Most Wonderful Time of the Year - Staples&#039; Back-to-School Commercial\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Iz56prGBiS8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Its the 1st day of preschool for my youngest &#8211; I will have 3, count them, THREE glorious hours of no-kids. No, &#8220;daddy, daddy, daddy&#8221;, no spills, no sounds of destruction while I try and use the bathroom as quickly as I can &#8211; and I can FOCUS.<\/p>\n<p>First up: getting my project to work with the Rift. Since GDEX is in 2 weeks, I&#8217;d like to be able to bring a HMD that I didn&#8217;t pay for, and has a built in audio solution, since Keith, the organizer of our shared space, has advised it will be noisy.<\/p>\n<p>I also need to start getting promo materials together and find a way of handling signups &#8211; even if it is just a clipboard to take email addresses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/time-flies-2470848_640.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-199 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/time-flies-2470848_640-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/time-flies-2470848_640-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/time-flies-2470848_640.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fast forward a few hours later: just picked up kiddo as he excitedly told me about his morning &#8211; circle time, singing songs, making a paper cut out apple; all very fun and interesting. He asks about my day &#8211; so I tell him:<\/p>\n<p>A) got Oculus support running &#8211; thanks to the ever useful VRTK, and a few of the associated tutorials, I was able to get a version working. Its separate from my Vive project, but after my recent adventures with computer problems, I don&#8217;t want a single thing going wrong with my projects. (Side note: as of a few weeks ago I am now a strict back-er upper) but being able to play-in-editor on my Rift gives me hope that I can have my build running before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegdex.com\/\">GDEX<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>B) Massive amounts of house cleaning &#8211; my folks are visiting Sunday and getting both the house AND the office shipshape are of utmost importance. I want to show off my toys, the game and an old project: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zQZArVyxLw8\">my childhood home, recreated in VR<\/a>. I want to see their reactions so bad &#8211; if I&#8217;m lucky they&#8217;ll let me film it.<\/p>\n<p>C) Getting my signage ready &#8211; I found a local printer that&#8217;ll make me a 20&#215;30 poster on foamcore, plus another that will make some buttons. As I&#8217;m designing these, I realize I don&#8217;t have a legit website for the game &#8211; just this dev blog. So, in addition to everything else, I have to look into subdomains and how to set one up &#8211; as well as make a simple webpage.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;m telling kiddo all this, he&#8217;s starting to yawn and drift off to sleep &#8211; too much excitement and, frankly &#8211; to him, my day was pretty boring in comparison to his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its the 1st day of preschool for my youngest &#8211; I will have 3, count them, THREE glorious hours of no-kids. No, &#8220;daddy, daddy, daddy&#8221;, no spills, no sounds of destruction while I try and use the bathroom as quickly as I can &#8211; and I can FOCUS. First up: getting my project to work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2017\/09\/13\/its-the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Its the Most Wonderful Time of the Year&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}