{"id":11368,"date":"2017-09-01T08:17:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T13:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=11368"},"modified":"2017-09-01T08:17:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T13:17:13","slug":"word-of-the-day-216","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/01\/word-of-the-day-216\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Haptics<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Haptics (pronounced\u00a0HAP-tiks) is the science of applying touch (tactile) sensation and control to interaction with computer applications. The word derives from the Greek\u00a0<i>haptein<\/i>\u00a0meaning &#8220;to fasten.&#8221; Haptics offers an additional dimension to a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/whatis.techtarget.com\/definition\/virtual-reality\">virtual reality<\/a>\u00a0or 3-D environment and is essential to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/whatis.techtarget.com\/definition\/immersive-virtual-reality-immersive-VR\">immersiveness<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0those environments. <em>[<a href=\"http:\/\/whatis.techtarget.com\/definition\/haptics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WhatIs.com<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I used it in a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/08\/30\/the-roar-of-war-or-the-gurgle-of-a-toilet-ctd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post<\/a> here:<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<blockquote><p>Reminds me of the old BBS days, when it was easy to offend someone because body language, inflection, etc, simply didn\u2019t come through the telecommunications channel.<\/p>\n<p>But I suspect the haptics folks are working on that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haptics: Haptics (pronounced\u00a0HAP-tiks) is the science of applying touch (tactile) sensation and control to interaction with computer applications. The word derives from the Greek\u00a0haptein\u00a0meaning &#8220;to fasten.&#8221; Haptics offers an additional dimension to a\u00a0virtual reality\u00a0or 3-D environment and is essential to the\u00a0immersiveness\u00a0of\u00a0those environments. [WhatIs.com] I used it in a recent post \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/01\/word-of-the-day-216\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11369,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11368\/revisions\/11369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}