{"id":7778,"date":"2020-11-16T14:33:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T19:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/?p=7778"},"modified":"2020-11-16T14:33:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T19:33:56","slug":"miniverse-lookingoutwards05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/hgururajandrew-cmu-edu\/11\/16\/miniverse-lookingoutwards05\/","title":{"rendered":"miniverse-lookingoutwards05"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Google Earth VR \u2014 Bringing the whole wide world to virtual reality\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SCrkZOx5Q1M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Google took the data from google maps to create a very large VR experience of the world. It could be a cultural teaching tool, immersive geography, a way to study architecture and much more. As a learning device it is boundless. HoweverIn Covid times, this as close to going to Florence or Japan as most people can get. Considering the data is from life it provides a nice alternative to being there. As it stands this tool is on the near edge of the uncanny valley. It is not close to realism at all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Google took the data from google maps to create a very large VR experience of the world. It could be a cultural teaching tool, immersive geography, a way to study architecture and much more. As a learning device it is boundless. HoweverIn Covid times, this as close to going to Florence or Japan as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/hgururajandrew-cmu-edu\/11\/16\/miniverse-lookingoutwards05\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;miniverse-lookingoutwards05&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7781,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7778\/revisions\/7781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}