{"id":13192,"date":"2016-07-29T08:20:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T16:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/?p=13192"},"modified":"2016-07-29T08:22:33","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T16:22:33","slug":"rec-room-for-htcs-vive-brings-people-together-by-giving-them-more-to-do-than-chit-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/?p=13192","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Rec Room\u2019 for HTC\u2019s Vive brings people together by giving them more to do than chit-chat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/http-com.ft_.imagepublish.prod_.s3.amazonaws.com-e6c376c6-54a9-11e6-befd-2fc0c26b3c60.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13193\" src=\"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/http-com.ft_.imagepublish.prod_.s3.amazonaws.com-e6c376c6-54a9-11e6-befd-2fc0c26b3c60-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"http---com.ft.imagepublish.prod.s3.amazonaws.com-e6c376c6-54a9-11e6-befd-2fc0c26b3c60\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/http-com.ft_.imagepublish.prod_.s3.amazonaws.com-e6c376c6-54a9-11e6-befd-2fc0c26b3c60-300x169.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/http-com.ft_.imagepublish.prod_.s3.amazonaws.com-e6c376c6-54a9-11e6-befd-2fc0c26b3c60.jpeg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>What makes it so engaging is that the other inhabitants of\u00a0<em>Rec Room<\/em>\u00a0are avatars of real people too.<\/p>\n<p><em>Rec Room<\/em>\u00a0has been called the \u201c<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.uk\/Games\/Wii\/Wii-Sports-283971.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-trackable=\"link\">Wii Sports<\/a><\/em>\u201d of VR and the comparison to the Nintendo game that sold millions of motion-controller consoles works on several levels. Not only are the rudimentary graphics and mini-games similar to those found on the 2006 title, but\u00a0<em>Rec Room<\/em>\u00a0serves as an intriguing introduction to VR.<\/p>\n<p><em>Rec Room \u2014<\/em>\u00a0created by developers at Against Gravity, the Seattle-based start-up who also worked on Microsoft\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/microsoft-hololens\/en-us\" target=\"_blank\" data-trackable=\"link\">HoloLens headset<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 works better than other attempts to bring people together in virtual worlds because it gives them something to do.<\/p>\n<p>Without filters or moderation, there is scope for abuse.<\/p>\n<p>See the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/next.ft.com\/content\/d1bf05c6-53e4-11e6-9664-e0bdc13c3bef\">here:\u00a0https:\/\/next.ft.com\/content\/d1bf05c6-53e4-11e6-9664-e0bdc13c3bef<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes it so engaging is that the other inhabitants of\u00a0Rec Room\u00a0are avatars of real people too. Rec Room\u00a0has been called the \u201cWii Sports\u201d of VR and the comparison to the Nintendo game that sold millions of motion-controller consoles works on several levels. Not only are the rudimentary graphics and mini-games similar to those found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-3d-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13194,"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13192\/revisions\/13194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}