{"id":4402,"date":"2015-06-12T13:39:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T17:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/ims\/?p=4402"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:28:12","slug":"tech-corner-low-tech-virtual-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/2015\/tech-corner-low-tech-virtual-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Corner:  Low-Tech Virtual Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Tech Corner:  Low-Tech Virtual Reality\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Virtual reality has been more than just a buzz word lately as this technology continues to build strength and popularity among a wide variety of markets and mediums. The obvious affiliation is in the gaming world, as it introduces an immersive dimension to things like first-person interaction. Other domains include healthcare and medicine, tourism, and education. But the cost-prohibitive nature of this technology is one of the biggest roadblocks preventing it from further growth\u2026until now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you remember View-Master? Both they and Google have taken interesting and cost effective approaches to providing low-tech, yet powerful tools that could change not only the educational market but possibly the consumer one as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>InAVate on the Net takes a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inavateonthenet.net\/article\/95014\/Google-Cardboard-provides-a-trip-to-the-Natural-History-Museum.aspx?emailaddress=troy.bernard@carleton.ca&amp;utm_source=emailmarketing&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=20150611nl&amp;utm_content=2015-06-11_1345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google\u2019s<\/a> approach, while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.view-master.com\/en-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View-Master<\/a> is using a familiar method to broaden accessibility of this technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual reality has been more than just a buzz word lately as this technology continues to build strength and popularity among a wide variety of markets and mediums. The obvious affiliation is in the gaming world, as it introduces an immersive dimension to things like first-person interaction. Other domains include healthcare and medicine, tourism, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}