{"id":20998,"date":"2016-01-20T17:48:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T01:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/google-is-back-in-the-virtual-reality-competition"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:53:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:53:20","slug":"google-is-back-in-the-virtual-reality-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/google-is-back-in-the-virtual-reality-competition","title":{"rendered":"Google is Back in the Virtual Reality Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"http:\/\/futurism1.futurismllc.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/google-VR-concept-600x315.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google is shifting employee responsibilities and forming its own dedicated division for virtual reality computing.<\/p>\n<p>Google is forming its own dedicated division for virtual reality computing, promising some intense competition for Facebook and <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/microsoft-is-now-testing-out-multi-person-virtual-reality\/\">Microsoft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not only has CEO Sundar Pichai <a href=\"http:\/\/recode.net\/2016\/01\/12\/google-now-has-an-official-virtual-reality-boss-to-take-on-facebooks-oculus\/\">moved over a key deputy<\/a> to run it, but the move also signals Google\u2019s intent to build a viable enterprise business. Because with the executive shift, Google\u2019s massive consumer Web applications now fall under incoming SVP Diane Greene.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/google-now-has-an-official-virtual-reality-boss-to-take-on-facebooks-oculus\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is shifting employee responsibilities and forming its own dedicated division for virtual reality computing. Google is forming its own dedicated division for virtual reality computing, promising some intense competition for Facebook and Microsoft. Not only has CEO Sundar Pichai moved over a key deputy to run it, but the move also signals Google\u2019s intent [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1523,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computing","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20998","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44427,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20998\/revisions\/44427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}