{"537431":{"#nid":"537431","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Virtual Reality\u0027s New Frontier: Peacekeeping, Iraq War Therapy, and Digital Paradises","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELMC Professor Janet Murray was interviewed by VOX for a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/5\/10\/11651938\/virtual-reality-expanding-therapy-art-journalism\u0022\u003Efeature on Virtual Reality\u003C\/a\u003E:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EJanet H. Murray is the author of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EHamlet on the Holodeck\u003C\/em\u003E, a famed 1997 book examining the frontiers of online media. She told Vox that despite the wide degree of variation in VR tech that currently exists in the market, we\u0027re a long way from establishing VR as a stable creative medium.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u201cWe are at a very early stage with VR and AR, where we have exciting new technologies for recording and viewing, but we do not yet have an actual medium,\u201dMurray said. \u201cTo create a medium, you need much more stable platforms, with much more refined features, and new genre conventions that turn technological novelty into an expansion in human expression.\u201d\u003C\/blockquote\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2016-05-18 18:13:47","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:28:10","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Ramblin\u0027 Royalty","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/5\/10\/11651938\/virtual-reality-expanding-therapy-art-journalism","dateline":{"date":"2016-05-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-05-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"511611":{"id":"511611","type":"image","title":"Sachin Mehta using the Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Simulator","body":null,"created":"1458923712","gmt_created":"2016-03-25 16:35:12","changed":"1475895273","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:33","alt":"Sachin Mehta using the Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Simulator","file":{"fid":"204991","name":"using_oculus_rift_virtual_reality_simulator_in_the_engineering_design_studio.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/using_oculus_rift_virtual_reality_simulator_in_the_engineering_design_studio_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/using_oculus_rift_virtual_reality_simulator_in_the_engineering_design_studio_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":241847,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/using_oculus_rift_virtual_reality_simulator_in_the_engineering_design_studio_0.jpg?itok=EoP8DBLP"}}},"media_ids":["511611"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"124","name":"Digital Media"},{"id":"169162","name":"Hamlet on the Holodeck"},{"id":"3925","name":"janet murray"},{"id":"145251","name":"virtual reality"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}