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Thomas Ortega

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Pres Obama, Tim Schafer, me in San Francisco's Chinatown for GDC Festival of Gaming. Alright, so we weren't there at the exact same time, but we were in the same places on the same street: Jackson St in Chinatown, since you're wondering. This is one way I go about Remixing Reality. I have a serendipitous moment and say to myself, "I wanna remember that my fave dim sum is next to the dive bar that Project: Reds is named after." For those that don't know, Tim and the folks at Double Fine Productions named many project codenames after dive bars in San Francisco's Chinatown. I did not know this until I sponsored Broken Age aka Double Fine Adventure aka Project: Reds and watched the documentary (link in the comments). If you are at GDC or ever think you want to make games, go watch the documentary episodes for Broken Age and Psychonauts 2. They taught me so much. People ask, "How do you do so much with just yourself?" And my answer is "The folks at Double Fine taught me very well." (link to DFTV in the comments, go watch 'em) I wanted to show just how close Reds was to Great Eastern Restaurant, the place Pres Obama ate at. It's not literally across the street, but a few doors down from each other. I knew Remixing Reality, my spatial computing app, would be able to attach text to the restaurant, then Reds and then across the street. However, I wasn't 100% sure it would remember it well enough for me to walk between the two spots since people were moving, cars were moving, etc. However, as you can see, I put the text in the real world, then made my video and bam, it all worked like magic. Spatial Computing is here people and it even works on your phone, which I bet many of you didn't even realize. If you have an iPhone , you can dip your toes in today with my Remixing Reality app. My fearless and wise leader, Mitu Khandaker 💫 GDC (Director of the NYU Game Design Future Lab), and others have helped me see I need to show the world what purpose I'm building Remixing Reality for. Therefore, I'm going to try to spend the week remixing reality to help you all understand what I envision for my product. I'll drop links to the bar, restaurant, the "Codename: Reds" video, the DF Documentary library, and my Remixing Reality app in the comments. If you are around GDC, let's meetup. You can use Remixing Reality in front of me, so I can see what I can do to make the user experience better. Plus, you can tell me how you'd like to remix your reality, so I can build features to enable what you want. #SpatialComputing #GDC #AR #Mobile #Chinatown

Thomas Ortega

Remixing Reality•1K followers

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Red's Place (the bar): https://maps.app.goo.gl/bSwHvpeYpJWgkdtf6 Great Eastern Restaurant: https://maps.app.goo.gl/CVxnn7Zrd9TP2tHF7 The "Codename: Reds" video: https://youtu.be/a_R2qKHdJlc?si=8BzxZ1z2SKCyYMLa&t=1536 The Double Fine Documentary library: https://www.doublefine.com/dftv My Remixing Reality app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/remixing-reality/id6478028606

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