{"id":21668,"date":"2016-02-05T12:48:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T20:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/altspacevr-social-platform-launches-on-samsung-gear-vr"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:59:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:59:51","slug":"altspacevr-social-platform-launches-on-samsung-gear-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/altspacevr-social-platform-launches-on-samsung-gear-vr","title":{"rendered":"AltspaceVR Social Platform Launches On Samsung Gear VR"},"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\/CQtQGoMRXaI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Virtual reality can sometimes appear like it\u2019s a pretty isolating platform. Visually, people experiencing VR certainly aren\u2019t in the most approachable position and right now the tech is new enough that it rarely seems accessible to those who are vaguely curious.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, there are plenty of companies succeeding in strengthening the social potential of VR. One of the coolest companies doing so, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/altvr.com\/\">AltspaceVR<\/a>, just became even more accessible today as it launched its mobile experience on Samsung Gear VR.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1273136\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/altspacevr-social-platform-launches-on-samsung-gear-vr2.jpg\" alt=\"AltspaceVR_gearvrImageHighFive4\" width=\"1024\" height=\"303\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/02\/04\/altspacevr-social-platform-launches-on-samsung-gear-vr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual reality can sometimes appear like it\u2019s a pretty isolating platform. Visually, people experiencing VR certainly aren\u2019t in the most approachable position and right now the tech is new enough that it rarely seems accessible to those who are vaguely curious. That being said, there are plenty of companies succeeding in strengthening the social potential [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21668","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=21668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63005,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21668\/revisions\/63005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}