{"id":547936,"date":"2018-11-16T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=f46924b4fb8e9ee962991b03c03a35e6"},"modified":"2018-11-16T12:00:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T16:00:01","slug":"what-is-augmented-reality-anyway-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=547936","title":{"rendered":"What is augmented reality, anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Augmented reality systems show virtual objects in the real world \u2013 like cat ears and whiskers on a Snapchat selfie, or how well a particular chair might fit in a room. The first big break for AR was the &#8220;Pok\u00e9mon GO&#8221; game, released in 2016 with a feature that let players see virtual Pok\u00e9mon standing in front of them, ready to be captured and played with. Now, technology companies like Microsoft and Mozilla \u2013 the company behind the Firefox browser \u2013 and even retail businesses like IKEA and Lego are exploring the potential of AR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augmented reality systems show virtual objects in the real world &ndash; like cat ears and whiskers on a Snapchat selfie, or how well a particular chair might fit in a room. The first big break for AR was the &#8220;Pok&eacute;mon GO&#8221; game, released in 2016 with a feature that let players see virtual Pok&eacute;mon standing in front of them, ready to be captured and played with. Now, technology companies like Microsoft and Mozilla &ndash; the company behind the Firefox browser &ndash; and even retail businesses like IKEA and Lego are exploring the potential of AR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=547936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547937,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547936\/revisions\/547937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}