{"id":940,"date":"2015-10-29T14:43:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T12:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/escapelab.net\/?p=940"},"modified":"2016-01-23T21:14:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T19:14:01","slug":"3d-rollercoaster-for-the-oculus-rift-headset-could-it-help-plan-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/?p=940","title":{"rendered":"3d rollercoaster for the Oculus Rift headset. Could it help to plan cities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Guardian Egyptian Web', 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; line-height: 22px;\"><span style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;\">Using virtual-reality headsets, designers are creating sophisticated urban environments that they hope could allow young people to have a more active role in urban planning.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; line-height: 24px;\">In May, Oliver Dawkins wowed the crowds at an architecture exhibition in east London<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; line-height: 24px;\">. The UCL student had designed a 3D rollercoaster ride for the Oculus Rift headset &ndash; mimicking the acceleration, sharp turns and vertiginous drops of a real ride in immersive virtual reality.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 24px;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">&ldquo;You can always show the static models of planned developments to architects, planners and city mayors,&rdquo; said Martin Zaltz Austwick, who lectures in visualisation at Casa. &ldquo;But with virtual reality, you can take dynamic models out to community groups, allowing for participation. What is interesting about Oculus Rift is that it is very immersive &ndash; it&rsquo;s very compelling. It represents a quantum leap in virtual reality.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2014\/sep\/01\/3d-rollercoaster-oculus-rift-city-planning\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 24px;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Article<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using virtual-reality headsets, designers are creating sophisticated urban environments that they hope could allow young people to have a more active role in urban planning. In May, Oliver&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":991,"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}