{"id":167,"date":"2019-03-28T09:24:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T16:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/?p=167"},"modified":"2019-04-01T11:21:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T18:21:08","slug":"lets-travel-the-world-using-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/2019\/03\/28\/lets-travel-the-world-using-vr\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s travel the world using VR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will you travel around the world in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Around_the_World_in_80_Days_(2004_film)\">80 days<\/a> or travel the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/44225915\">world using VR<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/44225915\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-206 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/files\/2019\/03\/vr-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/files\/2019\/03\/vr-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/files\/2019\/03\/vr-768x436.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/files\/2019\/03\/vr-800x454.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/files\/2019\/03\/vr.jpg 841w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a 19th century setting, from Jules Verne&#8217;s iconic novel, Phileas Fogg had to prove the Royal Academy of Science that he can circumnavigate the world in 80 days.<\/p>\n<p>In a current 21st century, you can travel the world, 1300 destinations in 193 countries in one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.staralliance.com\/en\/round-the-world\">round-the -world-ticket<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>But what about travelling the world without really moving away from where you are? If that&#8217;s the travel you like, then grab your VR headset and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/44225915\">watch<\/a> here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will you travel around the world in 80 days or travel the world using VR? In a 19th century setting, from Jules Verne&#8217;s iconic novel, Phileas Fogg had to prove the Royal Academy of Science that he can circumnavigate the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/2019\/03\/28\/lets-travel-the-world-using-vr\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4245383,4244866,7300],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-headset","tag-round-the-world","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/virtualreality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}