{"id":1231,"date":"2017-12-11T15:07:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T13:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/escapelab.net\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2017-12-11T15:07:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T13:07:15","slug":"the-birdly-a-vr-flying-bird-simulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/?p=1231","title":{"rendered":"The Birdly. A VR flying bird simulator."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gWLHIusLWOc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>With your arms spread wide, an Oculus on your face, and headphones on your ears, you find yourself soaring over the city\u2019s downtown, flapping your wings to gain altitude. It\u2019s a calming, meditative experience. Immersive and exciting, Birdly is the kind of VR experience that turns skeptics into true believers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A team at the Institute for Design Research at the Zurich University of the Arts have created a project called Birdly, a contraption that uses the Oculus Rift to simulate the experience of flying like a bird.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With your arms spread wide, an Oculus on your face, and headphones on your ears, you find yourself soaring over the city\u2019s downtown, flapping your wings to gain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1233,"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/1233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}