{"id":1264,"date":"2023-08-15T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2023-08-15T01:27:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T08:27:05","slug":"introducing-paleoca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2023\/08\/introducing-paleoca.html","title":{"rendered":"Introducing PaleoCA!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve been quiet the last few months but I am proud to announce that the first section of PaleoCalifornia (or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paleoca.com\">PaleoCA<\/a> as the web address says) is done! This WebXR project sprang from the COVID lockdown years when I watched a lot of Youtube videos showing dark rides at theme parks. As I was working on AnVRopomotron, I wanted to do something with prehistoric life that weren&#8217;t primates. I wanted to do something with the Cenozoic Era. By good fortune, the La Brea Tar Pits commissioned <a href=\"https:\/\/tarpits.org\/stories\/geek-out-ice-age-daydream\">twenty models of Ice Age animals<\/a> and put them out with a Creative Commons license. Around them, I could find other resources similarly usable and make the everything else myself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Work started last summer with planning and research, along with prototypes of some of the A-Frame components that I have not used before. A surprise reveal at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/AbwOZ3tRs_0?feature=share\">Wolvic WebXR Browser: Assembling the Pack<\/a> presentation spurred a lot of work, but then an extremely busy spring semester completely stopped progress. I didn&#8217;t start again until last June and worked hard with the goal of releasing&#8230; well, right now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/scene2-la.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1265\" width=\"737\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/scene2-la.png 982w, https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/scene2-la-450x290.png 450w, https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/scene2-la-150x97.png 150w, https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/scene2-la-768x495.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 737px) 100vw, 737px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">{ Caption: It&#8217;s a lovely place. }<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can elaborate on the origin and the process in other posts (though I think I always say that and don&#8217;t follow through). Here are the main features of PaleoCalifornia:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Part One is released featuring:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ride of nearly seven minutes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A scale model of downtown LA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Three (or is it four?) of the La Brea Tar Pits prehistoric animal models placed in a recreation of a pinion-juniper woodland. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Trippy time tunnel transitions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A homage to theme park dark rides but in the virtual world<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>WebXR experience is free and works on web browsers in VR and on desktop and smartphones.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Three narration tracks! Choose from the theme park ride <em>Adventure<\/em>, the informative <em>Educational<\/em>, or the behind-the-scenes <em>Developer&#8217;s Commentary<\/em>. Or no narration at all.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ride is slow-paced and on even ground for VR comfort<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Additional comfort feature of being able to see the track up ahead<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reverse-comfort feature for VR pros: turn off the car for an unobstructed view<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Go check it out at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paleoca.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.paleoca.com<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/scene2-sbc.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1266\" width=\"503\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/scene2-sbc.png 671w, https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/scene2-sbc-450x285.png 450w, https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/scene2-sbc-150x95.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">{ Caption: Majestic saber-toothed cat. }<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This upcoming semester will also be extremely busy but I hope to have a trickle of work towards Part Two of this WebXR experience. Like me, I hope you enjoy the ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been quiet the last few months but I am proud to announce that the first section of PaleoCalifornia (or PaleoCA as the web address says) is done! This WebXR project sprang from the COVID lockdown years when I watched a lot of Youtube videos showing dark rides at theme&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2023\/08\/introducing-paleoca.html\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Introducing PaleoCA!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[209,207,201,208],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-3d","tag-paleocalifornia","tag-vr","tag-webxr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/scene2-raccoons.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1270,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}