{"id":2664,"date":"2021-09-29T13:05:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T18:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/?p=2664"},"modified":"2021-09-29T13:05:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T18:05:26","slug":"3di-hikes-mcafee-knob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/2021\/09\/29\/3di-hikes-mcafee-knob\/","title":{"rendered":"3DI Hikes Mcafee Knob"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new achievement for the 3DI group! This past weekend, a subset of our group proudly hiked the 8 miles roundtrip to the top of Mcafee Knob. Joined by the brave husky Strider, this was our first major hike since the COVID pandemic started. A great opportunity to enjoy nature and each other&#8217;s company, while talking about anything but work (Uhum, who am I kidding&#8230;). While we did spot a Garden Snake, I am happy to report that nobody was injured. Furthermore, our emergency plans to escape from a bear were not required, and they remain untested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2021\/09\/DSC05620-01-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2665\" width=\"840\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2021\/09\/DSC05620-01-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2021\/09\/DSC05620-01-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2021\/09\/DSC05620-01-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2021\/09\/DSC05620-01-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2021\/09\/DSC05620-01-2048x1370.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>Our brave heroes<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new achievement for the 3DI group! This past weekend, a subset of our group proudly hiked the 8 miles roundtrip to the top of Mcafee Knob. Joined by the brave husky Strider, this was our first major hike since the COVID pandemic started. A great opportunity to enjoy nature and each other&#8217;s company, while <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/2021\/09\/29\/3di-hikes-mcafee-knob\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":275,"featured_media":2667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[405],"class_list":["post-2664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2021\/09\/mcafeeknob.png","authors":[{"term_id":405,"user_id":275,"is_guest":0,"slug":"lpavanat","display_name":"Leonardo Pavanatto","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2022\/08\/IMG_3685-e1661180633969.png","url2x":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2022\/08\/IMG_3685-e1661180633969.png"},"author_category":"","user_url":"http:\/\/leonardopavanatto.com","last_name":"Pavanatto","first_name":"Leonardo","job_title":"","description":"<p>I\u2019m a Ph.D. Candidate in <strong>Computer Science and Applications at Virginia Tech<\/strong>, a member of the 3D Interaction Group and of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction. My work is advised by Dr. Doug Bowman. I am also a Master of Computer Science and Bachelor of Computer Engineering, both degrees obtained at <strong>PUCRS<\/strong>, with terms abroad at Illinois Tech and Virginia Tech. I have further been an intern at <strong>Duke University<\/strong>, <strong>Microsoft Research<\/strong>, and <strong>Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>My expertise area is Virtual and Augmented Reality within the scope of 3D User Interfaces. Some specific research interests include how to use augmented reality for improving productivity on real-world tasks (such as working with virtual monitors and how to design cross-device interaction), and how to enhance the process of content creation through immersive technologies (such as architecture design and visualization).<\/p>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2669,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions\/2669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2664"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}