{"id":80950,"date":"2018-07-26T07:03:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T14:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/univ-of-washington-opens-virtual-and-augmented-reality-research-lab-funded-by-tech-giants"},"modified":"2018-07-26T07:03:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T14:03:37","slug":"univ-of-washington-opens-virtual-and-augmented-reality-research-lab-funded-by-tech-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/univ-of-washington-opens-virtual-and-augmented-reality-research-lab-funded-by-tech-giants","title":{"rendered":"Univ. of Washington opens virtual and augmented reality research lab funded by tech giants"},"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\/dpQV8OfPJog?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Seattle\u2019s virtual and augmented reality scene just got a boost, courtesy of the University of Washington and three tech giants.<\/p>\n<p>The UW announced today a new VR and AR research hub called <a href=\"https:\/\/realitylab.uw.edu\/\">UW Reality Lab<\/a>, funded by Facebook, Google, and Huawei, which each contributed $2 million for the initiative.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2018\/univ-washington-opens-virtual-augmented-reality-research-lab-funded-tech-giants\/\">https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2018\/univ-washington-opens-virtual-...ch-giants\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle\u2019s virtual and augmented reality scene just got a boost, courtesy of the University of Washington and three tech giants. The UW announced today a new VR and AR research hub called UW Reality Lab, funded by Facebook, Google, and Huawei, which each contributed $2 million for the initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80950","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=80950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}