{"id":14862,"date":"2018-04-01T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T07:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?p=14862"},"modified":"2018-04-01T09:11:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T07:11:10","slug":"new-virtual-virtual-reality-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/new-virtual-virtual-reality-solutions.html","title":{"rendered":"New Virtual Virtual Reality Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers in Darmstadt, Germany today announced a new virtual reality environment designed to test virtual reality headsets. &#8220;We looked into the emerging area of virtual and augmented reality, and realized that one of the most difficult choices facing potential users was the choice of virtual reality headsets&#8221;, says Dieter Meinhat. &#8220;So we&#8217;ve created a virtual store where people can come in and try on different brands of headsets to see which one is right for them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/virtual-virtual-reality-small.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14864\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/virtual-virtual-reality-small.jpg?resize=1000%2C750&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/virtual-virtual-reality-small.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/virtual-virtual-reality-small.jpg?resize=608%2C456&amp;ssl=1 608w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/virtual-virtual-reality-small.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The team is currently looking into opportunities to commercialize the product, &#8220;just as soon as we&#8217;ve figured out how to include blockchain,&#8221; says Dieter.<\/p>\n<p>CC image remix: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Reality_check_ESA384313.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESA<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Head-mounted_display#\/media\/File:XSight_HMD.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">xSight HMD by Sensics, Inc.<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jamiecat\/4467138713\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JamieCat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German researchers create a new virtual environment designed to let users try on virtual reality headsets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1364,579,1365,1119,1366],"class_list":["post-14862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-april-1st","tag-humor","tag-joke","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtual-virtual-reality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/virtual-virtual-reality-small.jpg?fit=1000%2C750&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-3RI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}