{"id":129774,"date":"2021-11-01T06:23:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T13:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/virtual-reality-can-combat-isolation-with-awe-and-empathy-on-earth-and-in-space"},"modified":"2021-11-01T06:23:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T13:23:16","slug":"virtual-reality-can-combat-isolation-with-awe-and-empathy-on-earth-and-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/virtual-reality-can-combat-isolation-with-awe-and-empathy-on-earth-and-in-space","title":{"rendered":"Virtual reality can combat isolation with awe and empathy, on Earth and in space"},"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\/wdvEbjqs1kU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It takes seven months to get to Mars in an efficiently engineered spaceship, covering the distance of 480 million kilometers. On this journey, a crew would have to survive in a confined space with no opportunity to experience nature or interact with new people. It is easy to imagine how this much isolation could have a severe impact on the crew\u2019s well-being and productivity.<\/p>\n<p>The challenges long-duration space travelers experience are not foreign to regular folk, although to \u2026 See more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes seven months to get to Mars in an efficiently engineered spaceship, covering the distance of 480 million kilometers. On this journey, a crew would have to survive in a confined space with no opportunity to experience nature or interact with new people. It is easy to imagine how this much isolation could have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129774","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}