{"id":28114,"date":"2016-07-20T15:17:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T22:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/mall-of-america-joins-virtual-reality-revolution"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:32:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:32:21","slug":"mall-of-america-joins-virtual-reality-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/mall-of-america-joins-virtual-reality-revolution","title":{"rendered":"Mall of America joins virtual reality revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mall-of-america-joins-virtual-reality-revolution.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even the shopping malls are going VR.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Mall of America is using leading-edge technology to enhance the on- and offsite customer experience.<\/p>\n<p>The Bloomington, Minnesota-based center is the latest retail participant to adopt virtual reality (VR) technology. A new, VR-based immersive experience allows customers to \u201csee\u201d retail, entertainment and live events within the mall.<\/p>\n<p>The tour of the mall first transports viewers to the Sea Life indoor aquarium. Other virtual attractions include the Nickelodeon Universe indoor theme park and the JW Marriott\u2019s Cedar + Stone restaurant. Radisson Blu hotel, and a live choir in the mall\u2019s rotunda event space.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retailingtoday.com\/article\/mall-america-joins-virtual-reality-revolution#.V4_3t_xUYGc.facebook\">http:\/\/www.retailingtoday.com\/article\/mall-america-joins-vir...c.facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even the shopping malls are going VR. Mall of America is using leading-edge technology to enhance the on- and offsite customer experience. The Bloomington, Minnesota-based center is the latest retail participant to adopt virtual reality (VR) technology. A new, VR-based immersive experience allows customers to \u201csee\u201d retail, entertainment and live events within the mall. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28114","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28114"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66839,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28114\/revisions\/66839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}