{"id":786,"date":"2017-07-23T10:49:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T14:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/?p=786"},"modified":"2017-07-23T10:52:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T14:52:47","slug":"google-vr-whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/google-vr-whats-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Google and VR&#8230;What&#8217;s next?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_788\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-788\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-788 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2017\/07\/27392441371_155c5304a8_o-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2017\/07\/27392441371_155c5304a8_o-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2017\/07\/27392441371_155c5304a8_o-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2017\/07\/27392441371_155c5304a8_o-768x772.jpg 768w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2017\/07\/27392441371_155c5304a8_o-1018x1024.jpg 1018w, https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2017\/07\/27392441371_155c5304a8_o-1080x1086.jpg 1080w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 298px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 298\/300;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by Martin Pettitt. CC BY 2.0 Licence. Retrieved from www.flickr.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I just came across an article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freetech4teachers.com\/2017\/07\/students-can-now-guide-themselves-in.html#.WXSzfYjyvIU\">Free Technology for Teachers<\/a> blog on Google&#8217;s recently updated virtual expeditions. \u00a0Essentially it allows the user to guide themselves through many of the world&#8217;s wonders in a virtual space.<\/p>\n<p>I have utilized Google&#8217;s virtual services before in my undergrad at Brock University. \u00a0I was taking an elective on introduction\u00a0to art and came across the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/culturalinstitute\/beta\/\">Google Arts and Culture Institute <\/a>where you are able to virtually navigate through many museums from around the world. \u00a0I found that this changed my perspective on art and really added to the overall learning experience. \u00a0I&#8217;m thinking their latest update will provide the same appreciation\u00a0for millions of students.<\/p>\n<p>Say what you will about Google as a Multinational Corporation&#8230;but these tools sure are handy when used for learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just came across an article in the Free Technology for Teachers blog on Google&#8217;s recently updated virtual expeditions. \u00a0Essentially it allows the user to guide themselves through many of the world&#8217;s wonders in a virtual space. I have utilized Google&#8217;s virtual services before in my undergrad at Brock University. \u00a0I was taking an elective &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/google-vr-whats-next\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google and VR&#8230;What&#8217;s next?!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,42,30],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt522","tag-google","tag-lrnt-522","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":790,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}