{"id":6473,"date":"2017-04-05T15:52:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T15:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6473"},"modified":"2017-04-05T15:52:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T15:52:56","slug":"virtual-reality-all-over-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6473","title":{"rendered":"Virtual reality all over again"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6475\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6475\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/virtual-r-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6475\" src=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/virtual-r-cover-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/virtual-r-cover-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/virtual-r-cover-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/virtual-r-cover.jpg 814w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Time magazine cover on VR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Virtual reality, after bombing in the 1990s is back again. We have\u00a0a <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3987022\/why-virtual-reality-is-about-to-change-the-world\/\">Time cover<\/a>, affordable headsets, and some games.<\/p>\n<p>J\u00e9r\u00e9mie pointed me to a couple of interesting links on VR. One is a short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/22893\/22893-h\/22893-h.htm\">Pygmalion&#8217;s Spectacles<\/a> from 1935 that tells the story of spectacles that can immerse you in another world. The BBC has created a virtual reality experience of being a Syrian refugee called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/taster\/projects\/we-wait\">We Wait<\/a>. Vice has a short documentary\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X_aU-P022g0\">Stepping Into the Screen<\/a> that emphasizes the potential psychological and ethical impact of VR. To my mind the attention to impact is a way of hyping VR. Is it really that different or are we just hoping it will be?<\/p>\n<p>In the 1990s many of us got sick trying VR headsets which has me wondering if anything is different this time?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual reality, after bombing in the 1990s is back again. We have\u00a0a Time cover, affordable headsets, and some games. J\u00e9r\u00e9mie pointed me to a couple of interesting links on VR. One is a short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum titled Pygmalion&#8217;s Spectacles from 1935 that tells the story of spectacles that can immerse you in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6473\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Virtual reality all over again<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6476,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6473\/revisions\/6476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}