{"id":24065,"date":"2019-04-07T15:17:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T23:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/?p=24065"},"modified":"2019-04-07T15:17:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T23:17:36","slug":"bose-ar-shows-off-augmented-reality-audio-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/?p=24065","title":{"rendered":"Bose AR shows off augmented reality audio games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bose-ar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-24066\" src=\"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bose-ar-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"bose-ar\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bose-ar-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bose-ar-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bose-ar-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/bose-ar.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>An indie game studio in Boston, Worthing &amp; Moncrief, made a game called Overherd to work with the glasses. Eric Hamel, one of the developers, told me how it worked. The game was a comic take on the opening scene of Monty Python &amp; the Holy Grail, where a French knight in a castle taunts King Arthur.<\/p>\n<p>Your job is to listen to the French knight\u2019s voice and figure out where he is in a circle around you. You turn to face him, double tap your glasses, and let loose a catapult throw a cow at his castle. If you hear a crash, you\u2019ve hit his castle with the flying cow. If I moved my chin up or down, I could change the elevation of the targeting.<\/p>\n<p>I had to listen closely, but Hamel put some noise-canceling headphones on my ears to block out the convention noise. My hearing isn\u2019t the best. But I was able to send the cows crashing into the castles, eliminating the French guy as he taunted me.<\/p>\n<p>See the full story<a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2019\/04\/06\/bose-ar-shows-off-augmented-reality-audio-games\/\"> here:\u00a0https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2019\/04\/06\/bose-ar-shows-off-augmented-reality-audio-games\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An indie game studio in Boston, Worthing &amp; Moncrief, made a game called Overherd to work with the glasses. Eric Hamel, one of the developers, told me how it worked. The game was a comic take on the opening scene of Monty Python &amp; the Holy Grail, where a French knight in a castle taunts [&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-24065","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\/24065","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=24065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24067,"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24065\/revisions\/24067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philiplelyveld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}