{"id":52,"date":"2022-11-10T20:22:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T20:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/vrone\/?p=52"},"modified":"2022-11-20T20:36:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T20:36:39","slug":"wtk-ca-unicenter-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/2022\/11\/10\/wtk-ca-unicenter-demo\/","title":{"rendered":"WTK CA-Unicenter Demo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of Sense8\u2019s classic \u201cbusiness\u201d demos was a proposed 3D user interface on top of Computer Associates\u2019 flagship Unicenter product. Branded as CA-Unicenter TNG, the demo would allow you to \u201cfly\u201d from a spinning map of the globe, down to a map of your IT network and ultimately inside servers to address issues or add additional software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WTK Demo - CA- Unicenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZFDq_Nsrh7Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techmonitor.ai\/technology\/ca_uses_explorer_as_unicenter_tng_web_interface\">https:\/\/techmonitor.ai\/technology\/ca_uses_explorer_as_unicenter_tng_web_interface<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was never sure if this interface actually shipped with Unicenter or was just a technology demonstrator. From what I can tell from this article in ITPro Today, it was available as the \u201cWorldView\u201d 3D interface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itprotoday.com\/compute-engines\/unicenter-tng\">https:\/\/www.itprotoday.com\/compute-engines\/unicenter-tng<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this Xerox brochure includes an image of the WTK GUI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"797\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/vrone\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2022\/11\/img_2640-797x1024.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-158\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2022\/11\/img_2640-797x1024.jpg 797w, http:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2022\/11\/img_2640-233x300.jpg 233w, http:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2022\/11\/img_2640-768x987.jpg 768w, http:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2022\/11\/img_2640-1195x1536.jpg 1195w, http:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2022\/11\/img_2640.jpg 1284w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 797px) 100vw, 797px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Later in my career, while selling HP OpenView, CA-Unicenter would be a perennial competitor. I must say, the 3D interface never came up in customer discussions so I suspect the metaphor did not become a major differentiator. But it was a good story at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Sense8\u2019s classic \u201cbusiness\u201d demos was a proposed 3D user interface on top of Computer Associates\u2019 flagship Unicenter product. Branded as CA-Unicenter TNG, the demo would allow you to \u201cfly\u201d from a spinning map of the globe, down to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/2022\/11\/10\/wtk-ca-unicenter-demo\/\">Continue reading <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":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-demos","category-sense8"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"http:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}