{"362451":{"#nid":"362451","#data":{"type":"event","title":"The School of Industrial Design and the Wearable Computing Center Reception","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPlease join the School of Industrial Design and the Wearable Computing Center for the opening reception of Meeting The Challenge: The Path Towards a Consumer Wearable Computer on January 8th 2015 from 6PM to 8PM. The exhibition will be held in the Georgia Tech College of Architecture\u2019s newly renovated Stubbins Gallery on the second floor of the east architecture building. \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EClint Zeagler | Curator \/ Designer\u003Cbr \/\u003EThad Starner | Curator\u003Cbr \/\u003EKevin Shankwiler | Designer\u003Cbr \/\u003EYoni Kaplan | Designer\u003Cbr \/\u003ETavenner M. Hall | Text and Images\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EWearable computers and head-mounted displays are in the press daily. Why now? While the basic technology has existed for decades, only recently have these devices become practical and desirable. Using consumer, professional, and \u201cmaker\u201d devices, this exhibit demonstrates four challenges along the road to making a consumer wearable computer: power and heat, networking, mobile input, and displays. The groups of head-mounted displays shown here reflect product categories that developed as these challenges were addressed: \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u00b7 virtual reality displays which seek to remove the user from reality\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u00b7 portable video viewers for entertainment\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u00b7 industrial systems designed to support work tasks\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u00b7 early academic and maker systems that provide smartphone-like productivity and communication abilities for everyday use and\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u00b7 current consumer devices that leverage modern miniaturized sensors and wireless mobile networks to provide services that are \u201cthere when you need it, gone when you don\u2019t.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Exhibition will be open to the public from January 5th through January 23rd 8AM \u2013 5PM. \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EFuture Events: \u003Cbr \/\u003EJanuary 15th 6PM: Curator Tour with Clint Zeagler \u0026amp; Thad Starner\u003Cbr \/\u003EJanuary 22nd 6PM: Lecture - Designing the Exhibition to Travel \u003Cbr \/\u003Ewith Kevin Shankwiler and Yoni Kaplan\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Meeting The Challenge: The Path Towards a Consumer Wearable Computer"}],"uid":"27774","created_gmt":"2015-01-08 16:43:27","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:20:44","author":"Alishia Farr","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-01-08T17:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2015-01-08T19:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-01-08T19:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-01-08 22:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-01-09 00:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-01-09 00:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4096","name":"brown bag"},{"id":"1946","name":"GVU"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}