{"id":596816,"date":"2019-03-25T17:00:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T21:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=c8e377d390e6158f109bd7c179f830cb"},"modified":"2019-03-25T17:00:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T21:00:52","slug":"new-virtual-reality-tool-allows-you-to-see-the-world-through-the-eyes-of-a-tiny-primate-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=596816","title":{"rendered":"New virtual reality tool allows you to see the world through the eyes of a tiny primate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine that you live in the rainforests of Southeast Asia, you&#8217;re a pint-sized primate with enormous eyes that are roughly the same size as your brain, and you look a little like Gizmo from the movie, &#8220;Gremlins&#8221;. You&#8217;re a tarsier\u2014 a nocturnal animal whose giant eyes provide you with exceptional visual sensitivity, enabling a predatory advantage. A new virtual reality software, Tarsier Goggles, developed at Dartmouth College, simulates a tarsier&#8217;s vision and illustrates the adaptive advantage of this animal&#8217;s oversized eyes. Both the virtual reality build and the team&#8217;s findings published recently in Evolution: Education and Outreach are available for free online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine that you live in the rainforests of Southeast Asia, you&#8217;re a pint-sized primate with enormous eyes that are roughly the same size as your brain, and you look a little like Gizmo from the movie, &#8220;Gremlins&#8221;. You&#8217;re a tarsier&mdash; a nocturnal animal whose giant eyes provide you with exceptional visual sensitivity, enabling a predatory advantage. A new virtual reality software, Tarsier Goggles, developed at Dartmouth College, simulates a tarsier&#8217;s vision and illustrates the adaptive advantage of this animal&#8217;s oversized eyes. Both the virtual reality build and the team&#8217;s findings published recently in Evolution: Education and Outreach are available for free online.<\/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-596816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596816","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=596816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596817,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596816\/revisions\/596817"}],"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=596816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}