Greetings to everyone. Since this is my first official blog post, I figure I’d first introduce myself again, as I’m guessing most of you won’t recall anything I mentioned at the SIF orientation a couple of weeks ago. My name is Rumman Ahmed, but I like to go by Shakib. I’m a sophomore here at Georgia State studying Computer Science. I spend my free time playing basketball, on Xbox, and watching Netflix. I also love cats. But enough with that, I believe I’m supposed to discuss CURVE here. This is also my first time writing any sort of blog or anything like it, so bear with me…
Honestly, I have not spent much time in CURVE as I should have in the past couple of weeks, but that is changing. However, this doesn’t give me a lot to talk about as I haven’t really done much. I asked for advice on what I should write in this blog post, and among other things, I was told to “daydream” about how I would use some of the technology, so I will do exactly that.
I love the InteractWall. I think that’s the official name for it. It just seems so innovative and futuristic to me, and the fact that I’m allowed to basically mess around and experiment with it is just great. When I saw this, along with the 4k screen and the other large computer screens in the space, one of the first things I imagined was playing video games on them. You can’t really blame me, can you? But obviously (and unfortunately), that probably won’t be allowed. But there’s an exception. I’m studying Computer Science, and with this very broad subject comes programming. Now I enjoy programming a lot. And there are many things you can program. I’d figure the most common use is for automating small processes, but then there are larger programs and software with many, many different possibilities, and then there are phone applications, and finally there are video games. Originally, I actually was planning to avoid video game programming because as I’ve heard, that involves learning more about shapes and object collision etc. physics, and I greatly dislike physics. But I have been thinking that I might even follow this pursuit once again if I have the chance to test it on these large screens. I’m telling you, playing a high definition game on something like the InteractWall or the 4k screen is any video gamer’s dream.