{"id":4199,"date":"2014-08-17T12:37:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T11:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=4199"},"modified":"2014-08-17T12:37:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T11:37:45","slug":"high-fidelitys-aka-get-easy-like-sunday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=4199","title":{"rendered":"High Fidelity’s AKA Get Easy Like Sunday Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

The High Fidelity team have ramped up their blog<\/a> discussion during August and there’s a lot of interesting and fun stuff to look at. There’s a post about the importance of the speed of sound, there’s a post about Javascript from Paloma .. Paloma being a 17 year old intern and not a place and then there’s a post about frogs who aren’t frogs sitting on lilypads and singing.<\/p>\n

Now as this is Sunday and I need to shave and hit the pub to watch a bit of footie, I’ll focus on the\u00a0frogs who aren’t frogs sitting on lilypads and singing<\/a>. We’re promised a follow up post from executive producer Ryan Karpf to explain the concepts behind this post at a later date. However for now we’re left to see some members of the High Fidelity team at play.<\/p>\n

Ryan, Chris Collins, Emily Donald and Ozan Serim all feature in this video as well as a guy with very large shoulders whom looks uncannily like the avatar form of former Linden Lab employee Andrew Meadows (AKA Employee Number 2 when he worked at The Lab). However as this avatar isn’t introduced I’m not 100% sure who it is.<\/p>\n

The post introduces a name for the High Fidelity band, they are known as AKA, they are also known as AKA too.<\/p>\n

The video in the post exemplifies High Fidelity in action as well as Chris Collins reminding me of a character from Monkey Island for some reason. However what we see here is facial expressions and once again the mouth movements are pretty damn impressive.<\/p>\n

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We also get to see a guitarist in action with Ozan Serim on guitar, who introduces the song with his traditional countdown, which you can just about hear. We also see arm and hand movements in action, although quite how that has been achieved has not yet been explained in this post.<\/p>\n

Sometimes it’s better to see something in action, rather than get bogged down in the discussion and this is one of those times. The concepts at play here work and they work largely well. There are some imperfections of course but that’s to be expected. This is still an alpha product and imperfections are to be expected, indeed in this day and age imperfections are to be expected even with a completed project.<\/p>\n

Personally I enjoyed this, your mileage may vary but High Fidelity does appear to be progressing very nicely.<\/p>\n