{"id":146,"date":"2005-11-02T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/crackbaby\/?p=146"},"modified":"2005-11-02T12:13:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-02T17:13:00","slug":"where-are-they-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Where are they now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friend of mine back in the college days ended up making a name for himself doing Artificial Intelligence programming for video games.  <a href=\"http:\/\/ron.heavengames.com\/press\/events\/bhgvisitmarch2004\/interviews\/PranasMar2004.shtml\">Here&#8217;s an old interview with him<\/a> I recently found.<\/p>\n<p>When we were taking classes together I was always impressed (and admittedly jealous) with how little preparation he needed in order to ace everything every class threw at him.  The boy was scary smart!<\/p>\n<p>And apparently all that computer gaming we all did during those college years paid off for him.  In those days it was stuff like X-Wing, XCOM, Doom, and Wing Commander.  On 486&#8217;s with 100MB hard drives.  And we liked it!!!<\/p>\n<p>Before diving headlong into the video game industry, Pranas worked on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cave.vt.edu\/\">Virginia Tech&#8217;s CAVE project.<\/a>  He gave me a tour of the CAVE system once (it&#8217;s an experimental virtual reality setup).  I still remember my stomach turning from the perceived motion induced by the 3D projections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friend of mine back in the college days ended up making a name for himself doing Artificial Intelligence programming for video games. Here&#8217;s an old interview with him I recently found. When we were taking classes together I was always &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=146\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}