{"id":886,"date":"2022-04-04T18:05:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T18:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/2022\/04\/04\/are-augmented-and-virtual-reality-finally-gaining-traction\/"},"modified":"2022-04-04T18:05:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T18:05:47","slug":"are-augmented-and-virtual-reality-finally-gaining-traction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/2022\/04\/04\/are-augmented-and-virtual-reality-finally-gaining-traction\/","title":{"rendered":"Are augmented and virtual reality finally gaining traction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly a year of writing this newsletter, I guess it&#8217;s time to wade into the metaverse or at least the virtual\/augmented reality (VR\/AR) dimension version of it.<\/p>\n<p>VR comes in for a lot of scorn, and deservedly so.<\/p>\n<p>The concept has been overhyped for too long while the tools to deliver on its promise were woefully underpowered. I remember getting VR demos at conferences back in the late 90s when the required headgear was so massive that I thought I might topple over from it. Then there was <a href=\"https:\/\/secondlife.com\/\">Second Life<\/a>, a virtual world ahead of its time and unable to live up to the expectations built around it through no fault of its own (it&#8217;s still around and <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/second_life_makes_100m_a_year_in_revenue\/\">is profitable<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"jumpTag\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3655993\/are-augmented-and-virtual-reality-finally-gaining-traction.html#jump\">To read this article in full, please click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly a year of writing this newsletter, I guess it&#8217;s time to wade into the metaverse or at least the virtual\/augmented reality (VR\/AR) dimension version of it. VR comes in for a lot of scorn, and deservedly so. The concept has been overhyped for too long while the tools to deliver on its promise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}