{"id":177118,"date":"2017-02-13T09:20:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T14:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/google-chrome-now-allows-users-to-experience-virtual-reality-via-webvr-econotimes\/"},"modified":"2017-02-13T09:20:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T14:20:56","slug":"google-chrome-now-allows-users-to-experience-virtual-reality-via-webvr-econotimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/virtual-reality\/google-chrome-now-allows-users-to-experience-virtual-reality-via-webvr-econotimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome Now Allows Users To Experience Virtual Reality Via WebVR &#8211; EconoTimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Monday, February 13, 2017 5:27 AM UTC  <\/p>\n<p>    Later this week, Google announced that they have added WebVR to    the web browser Chrome.  <\/p>\n<p>        The announcement read as follows, Virtual reality (VR)    lets you tour the Turkish palace featured in Die Another Day,    learn about life in a Syrian refugee camp firsthand, and walk    through your dream home right from your living room. With the    latest version of Chrome, were bringing VR to the webmaking    it as easy to step inside Air Force One as it is to access your    favorite webpage.  <\/p>\n<p>    Toms Hardware said this type of virtual reality support help    push ongoing commercial efforts. The site said, The ability to    visit a web page and immediately start poking around VR    content--even if it's not as immersive as a dedicated VR    headset would be--could help people better understand why VR    can be so exciting.  <\/p>\n<p>    According to     Forbes, this support now allows any device to their web    browser into a virtual reality platform. Simply go on a    WebVR-enabled site via Chrome and then navigate using a mouse    for your laptop or desktop, or your fingers on your mobile    device.If you have a DayDream-ready phone or a DayDream    headset, you can have a full virtual reality experience using    WebVR.  <\/p>\n<p>    Google says users can expect more headsets to handle the    virtual reality-enabled websites, including the most popular    Google wearable, the Google Cardboard.     Techradar reports that in the meantime, there are several    virtual reality-enabled websites that uses can now access.    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The announcement read as follows, Virtual reality (VR) lets you tour the Turkish palace featured in Die Another Day, learn about life in a Syrian refugee camp firsthand, and walk through your dream home right from your living room. With the latest version of Chrome, were bringing VR to the webmaking it as easy to step inside Air Force One as it is to access your favorite webpage.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/virtual-reality\/google-chrome-now-allows-users-to-experience-virtual-reality-via-webvr-econotimes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}