{"id":93,"date":"2016-03-29T18:26:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T18:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2016-03-29T18:35:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T18:35:02","slug":"joining-unity-labs-moving-to-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/joining-unity-labs-moving-to-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Joining Unity Labs; moving to San Francisco!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, Friends! Time for a big life announcement: I\u2019ve taken a job with Unity, where I\u2019ll be working on their VR editor! This is a huge step for me professionally, and also a huge personal shift, since it means I\u2019ll be moving to San Francisco in a couple weeks, after 17 years in the Boston area.<\/p>\n<p>Professionally, this is a dream job: it\u2019s a team of rockstars, building the tools that will define how virtual worlds are built, not just by professional developers, but by anyone. We all see virtual and augmented reality as the ultimate medium for creativity (and future of everything), both because of its limitless nature, and because of how natural the creative process is when it\u2019s not being jammed onto a screen and mouse.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eN3PsU_iA80&amp;t=1h35m55s\">Here&#8217;s the latest video and demo<\/a> they&#8217;ve put out on the Labs projects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/unity-vr-editor.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-98 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/unity-vr-editor-1024x670.jpg\" alt=\"unity-vr-editor\" width=\"604\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/unity-vr-editor-1024x670.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/unity-vr-editor-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/unity-vr-editor-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/unity-vr-editor.jpg 1277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been working on Archean, my \u201cmake VR inside VR\u201d project, over the course of the last 18 months, which is what led directly to this opportunity. My plan is to release Archean on Steam essentially as-is, and to continue development on the side, specifically through a series of game jams, as I described in my last post. I\u2019m looking forward to approaching it more as a designer than as a programmer, and focusing on the \u201cwhat you do with it\u201d question more than the \u201cwhat the tools are\u201d side I\u2019ve been so steeped in.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, of course, moving to San Francisco is a huge shift. I\u2019ve been in Boston for almost my entire life, and my Mom, many of my closest friends, and most of my professional life are all here. Boston will always feel like home, and I bet I\u2019ll end up here in the long term. But I\u2019m not too worried about staying in touch &#8212; I know that everyone is just a phone call \/ video hangout \/ holographic cyberspace chill away. And, in the next couple weeks till I actually leave Boston, let\u2019s chill \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want to say too much on her behalf, but if you\u2019re wondering: my better half is coming too! We\u2019ve been eagerly looking forward to moving in and starting the next chapter together, especially for the last year since she came back from Japan. Finally, the right opportunity has come up, and we\u2019re so happy to be taking it together.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m insanely excited to be taking this step (all these steps), and I can\u2019t wait to get started. The future\u2019s gonna be a wild, fast ride, and we haven\u2019t seen anything yet \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, Friends! Time for a big life announcement: I\u2019ve taken a job with Unity, where I\u2019ll be working on their VR editor! This is a huge step for me professionally, and also a huge personal shift, since it means I\u2019ll be moving to San Francisco in a couple weeks, after 17 years in the Boston &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/joining-unity-labs-moving-to-san-francisco\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Joining Unity Labs; moving to San Francisco!<\/span> <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":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archean","category-unity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}