{"id":90366,"date":"2019-05-07T02:02:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T09:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/how-epic-ilms-john-knoll-tried-to-recreate-the-moon-landing-for-microsofts-build-2019-keynote"},"modified":"2019-05-07T02:02:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T09:02:16","slug":"how-epic-ilms-john-knoll-tried-to-recreate-the-moon-landing-for-microsofts-build-2019-keynote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/how-epic-ilms-john-knoll-tried-to-recreate-the-moon-landing-for-microsofts-build-2019-keynote","title":{"rendered":"How Epic &amp; ILM\u2019s John Knoll Tried to Recreate the Moon Landing for Microsoft\u2019s Build 2019 Keynote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r0ubiU3PRHw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the end, it wasn\u2019t meant to be. <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/microsoft\/\" id=\"auto-tag_microsoft\" data-tag=\"microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> had pulled out all the stops for its Build 2019 developer conference keynote on Monday morning. The company had partnered with <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/epic-games\/\" id=\"auto-tag_epic-games\" data-tag=\"epic-games\">Epic Games<\/a> and Industrial Light &amp; Magic chief creative officer <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/john-knoll\/\" id=\"auto-tag_john-knoll\" data-tag=\"john-knoll\">John Knoll<\/a> for a hugely ambitious demo of its Hololens 2 headset that aimed to recreate the Apollo 11 moon landing, 50 years after the fact, in mixed reality.<\/p>\n<p>All had worked out well during multiple rehearsals over the last few days. But when Knoll and science journalist and \u201cMan on the Moon\u201d author Andrew Chaikin were set to go on stage on Monday, the demo just didn\u2019t run. <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2019\/gaming\/news\/xbox-controller-with-braille-1203205947\/\" id=\"related_article_link_microsoft\" data-tag=\"microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> stalled by extending its pre-show ImagineCup competition until the show\u2019s moderator couldn\u2019t think of any more questions to ask. Then Knoll and Chaikin went on stage, giving it one more go \u2014 and the mixed-reality overlays simply refused to appear.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2019\/digital\/features\/microsoft-build-moon-landing-epic-john-knoll-1203205694\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the end, it wasn\u2019t meant to be. Microsoft had pulled out all the stops for its Build 2019 developer conference keynote on Monday morning. The company had partnered with Epic Games and Industrial Light &amp; Magic chief creative officer John Knoll for a hugely ambitious demo of its Hololens 2 headset that aimed to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}