{"id":327,"date":"2009-11-23T10:52:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T16:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=327"},"modified":"2010-02-23T22:22:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T04:22:58","slug":"avatar-machine-augmented-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2009\/11\/avatar-machine-augmented-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Avatar Machine: augmented reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Avatar Machine is a VR-helmet system which allows you to view the real world as a third-person game:<\/p>\n<p>      <object width=\"424\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2292921&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2292921&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"424\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe virtual communities created by online games have provided us with a new medium for social interaction and communication. Avatar Machine is a system which replicates the aesthetics and visuals of third person gaming, allowing the user to view themselves as a virtual character in real space via a head mounted interface. The system potentially allows for a diminished sense of social responsibility, and could lead the user to demonstrate behaviors normally reserved for the gaming environment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcowens.co.uk\/index_frame.htm\">Marc Owens<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/11\/22\/augmented-reality-ri.html\">BoingBoing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avatar Machine is a VR-helmet system which allows you to view the real world as a third-person game: The virtual communities created by online games have provided us with a new medium for social interaction and communication. Avatar Machine is a system which replicates the aesthetics and visuals of third person gaming, allowing the user [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[280],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","tag-augmented-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":724,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}