{"id":2766,"date":"2016-04-17T05:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T21:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/17\/this-is-how-calls-and-texts-look-in-virtual-reality-via-the-htc-vive\/"},"modified":"2016-04-17T05:00:54","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T21:00:54","slug":"this-is-how-calls-and-texts-look-in-virtual-reality-via-the-htc-vive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/17\/this-is-how-calls-and-texts-look-in-virtual-reality-via-the-htc-vive\/","title":{"rendered":"This is how calls and texts look in virtual reality, via the HTC Vive"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This past week, Facebook showed us what it’s like to take a virtual reality selfie<\/a> using the Oculus Rift \u2014 an experience that has to be seen to truly grasp its awesomeness<\/p>\n

But that demo was just a prototype. You can’t take VR selfies with the Oculus just yet. However, you can<\/em> make phone calls in VR if you have the HTC Vive<\/a>, and there’s video showing how it works<\/p>\n

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See also: Facebook just made VR selfie sticks a thing<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Delivering a scene we’ve only witnessed in fictional films like like Lawnmower Man<\/em><\/a> \u2014 until now \u2014 a member of the crew over at Road to VR<\/em> recorded a session (video above) in which he sends a text and makes a phone call Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

More about Gadgets<\/a>, Vr<\/a>, Virtual Reality<\/a>, Gaming<\/a>, and Tech<\/a>
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This past week, Facebook showed us what it’s like to take a virtual reality selfie using the Oculus Rift \u2014 an experience that has to be seen to truly grasp its awesomeness But that demo was just a prototype. You … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[726,863,725,745,744],"class_list":["post-2766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-gadgets","tag-gaming","tag-tech","tag-virtual-reality","tag-vr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}