{"id":11165,"date":"2014-05-17T08:20:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T15:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11165"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:07:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:07:38","slug":"why-virtual-reality-will-compete-with-the-real-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/why-virtual-reality-will-compete-with-the-real-world","title":{"rendered":"Why Virtual Reality Will Compete with the Real World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/contributor\/philip-rosedale\/\">Philip Rosedale<\/a> \u2014 MIT Review<br \/>\n<br \/> Recent weeks have been good ones for people interested in virtual reality. The Facebook acquisition of Oculus has galvanized the idea that \u201csomething wonderful\u201d will happen if we put on these strange headsets and visually enter other worlds. Of course, most people assume this means gaming.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s true that the upcoming Crystal Cove Oculus headset (which tracks the head\u2019s position and rotation) will immerse its users in the most amazing computer gaming experiences they could have ever thought possible. But that\u2019s not the big part of the story.<\/p>\n<p>After we\u2019ve had the Oculus strapped to our faces for a few months and the novelty has worn off, we might find ourselves asking some important questions: \u201cWhere are the other people?\u201d And \u201cWhere can I start working and learning and building <em>in here<\/em>?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/view\/527101\/why-virtual-reality-will-compete-with-the-real-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Rosedale \u2014 MIT Review Recent weeks have been good ones for people interested in virtual reality. The Facebook acquisition of Oculus has galvanized the idea that \u201csomething wonderful\u201d will happen if we put on these strange headsets and visually enter other worlds. Of course, most people assume this means gaming. And it\u2019s true that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11165","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64979,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11165\/revisions\/64979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}