{"id":76918,"date":"2018-03-14T21:02:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T04:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/vr-is-still-a-novelty-but-googles-light-field-technology-could-make-it-serious-art"},"modified":"2018-03-14T21:02:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T04:02:47","slug":"vr-is-still-a-novelty-but-googles-light-field-technology-could-make-it-serious-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/vr-is-still-a-novelty-but-googles-light-field-technology-could-make-it-serious-art","title":{"rendered":"VR is still a novelty, but Google\u2019s light-field technology could make it serious art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/vr-is-still-a-novelty-but-googles-light-field-technology-could-make-it-serious-art2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recently got a private tour of a NASA space shuttle\u2019s cockpit, a quirky mosaic-covered LA home, and a peaceful chapel with light streaming through ornate stained-glass windows\u2014all without leaving my chair.<\/p>\n<p>That chair was in an office at Google\u2019s Silicon Valley headquarters, and I was wearing an HTC Vive virtual-reality headset on my face. But because these places were filmed with a high-resolution prototype camera that reproduces some of the key cues we use to understand depth in the real world, it felt more like actually being there than anything I\u2019ve experienced with any other live-action VR. Which is to say it was pretty damn cool.<\/p>\n<p>I could peer around the seats in the space shuttle <em>Discovery<\/em>, revealing buttons and switches on the walls of the cockpit that were previously obscured. As I looked closely at mirrored bits of tile on the outside of the mosaic house, I glimpsed reflections of other tiles in the background and saw a dizzying display of shapes and patterns. In the chapel, I gazed at the floor, and the colorful sunbeams moved as I did.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/610458\/vr-is-still-a-novelty-but-googles-light-field-technology-could-make-it-serious-art\/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2018-03-14&utm_campaign=Technology+Review\">https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/610458\/vr-is-still-a-nove...ogy+Review<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently got a private tour of a NASA space shuttle\u2019s cockpit, a quirky mosaic-covered LA home, and a peaceful chapel with light streaming through ornate stained-glass windows\u2014all without leaving my chair. That chair was in an office at Google\u2019s Silicon Valley headquarters, and I was wearing an HTC Vive virtual-reality headset on my face. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1514,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-space-travel","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76918","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}