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1px VR

Posted on April 19, 2022 by dustinfreeman

I have always had slightly dry eyes. This has made wearing contacts difficult. During the pandemic, I gradually became inexcusably annoyed at having to choose foggy glasses or blurry vision when wearing a mask in public. Independently, it occurred to … Continue reading →

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GPT-2 and Culture Ship Names

Posted on September 11, 2019 by dustinfreeman

Brief Personal Update: I accepted a new job and moved to Manhattan – more on that later. Critically, I signed a lease on an apartment after 3 years of cybernomadism. I intend to live here for a while, but I … Continue reading →

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Taekwondo does not support Double-Jumping

Posted on March 15, 2019 by dustinfreeman

I started Taekwondo in November 2018. I’ve wanted to try a martial art for years, but it’s been one of those hobbies in the backlog that required a chance encounter to nucleate. I used to do more cardio and cognitive … Continue reading →

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Telepresence Immersive Theatre with Mice instead of Voice

Posted on January 16, 2019 by dustinfreeman

This past year at Escape Character has been quiet, but very busy. Me + several collaborators have been iterating on telepresence interactive theatre. We have written and debuted three scenarios and are in the middle of writing our fourth. We’ve … Continue reading →

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Wonderful Projects I Did With Microsoft’s Kinect

Posted on October 25, 2017 by dustinfreeman

RIP the Kinect. Literally changed the direction of my research/career/life/art. Gave it more DEPTH. — Dustin Freeman🚁LAX (@dustinfreeman) October 25, 2017 Microsoft has ceased manufacturing the Kinect. Here’s some projects, art and research, academic and industrial, that I could only … Continue reading →

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What I’ve been up to

Posted on September 11, 2016 by dustinfreeman

It’s been a while! Lots of excitement is upcoming and I’m happy to finally share. At the end of April 2016, after a year and a half, I left Occipital and returned to Toronto to focus on personal projects. I … Continue reading →

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Concussive Time-Skip

Posted on January 20, 2016 by dustinfreeman

On December 21st, I was in the back of a car that was in an accident on a way to work. It was the first time I was in a vehicle that had its airbags deploy. I felt a sense … Continue reading →

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The Painting — An Immersive iBeacon Theatre Experience Powered by Webble SmartSpot

Posted on August 12, 2015 by dustinfreeman

Here is a first-person walkthrough of an immersive theatre show I did with Joshua Marx, as part of Floodlight Productions. We built it in a section of The SpeakeasySF while it was still under construction. UPDATE: See my talk at … Continue reading →

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X-mas travel plans 2014

Posted on December 4, 2014 by dustinfreeman

Starting and Ending in San Francisco: On one of these flights I have a stopover in Vancouver, and it isn’t the one that goes through Victoria.

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Moving to San Francisco; joining Occipital

Posted on October 22, 2014 by dustinfreeman

Two days ago, I finished the second-to-last draft of my thesis and, a couple hours later, my first full watch-through of Star Trek: The Next Generation. And now it’s time for another transition! I’ve lived in Toronto for 6 years … Continue reading →

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