{"id":108,"date":"2016-02-25T12:27:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T19:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/?p=108"},"modified":"2017-01-05T17:20:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T00:20:19","slug":"vr-and-ar-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/2016\/02\/25\/vr-and-ar-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"VR and AR in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VR and AR applications are certainly becoming more prominent in the news recently (also with much hype from some manufacturers). Here are a couple of more interesting items:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-35629715\">BBC News: Can AR help us improve reality?<\/a>\u00a0Showcases some of the potential of AR technologies, but also illustrates some of the gimmick approaches, and hype where the practical technology is far behind what is being\u00a0demonstrated!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-35595835\" target=\"_blank\">Hand Gesture Control with Leap Motion VR Controls<\/a>: Illustrates a very impressive technology for following hand movement in a VR environment.<\/p>\n<p>Bernie Garrett<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VR and AR applications are certainly becoming more prominent in the news recently (also with much hype from some manufacturers). Here are a couple of more interesting items: BBC News: Can AR help us improve reality?\u00a0Showcases some of the potential of AR technologies, but also illustrates some of the gimmick approaches, and hype where the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":646,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1570073],"tags":[1570074,867067,1570073],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vr-news","tag-ar-news","tag-hand-tracking","tag-vr-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/646"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/arvrha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}