{"id":3521,"date":"2013-10-27T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T23:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wortraub.com\/?p=3521"},"modified":"2013-10-31T09:09:08","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T08:09:08","slug":"big-city-arcade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/?p=3521","title":{"rendered":"Big City Arcade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Modern smartphone technology turns public space into a stage for performative video gaming culture. In gaming, augmented reality \u2013 the overlay of digital projections onto real world environments \u2013 is the latest trend: It allows players to interact with a second, virtual reality displayed on their mobile screens.<!--more--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcd.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trinity College Dublin<\/a>, one of Europe\u2019s most prestigious universities and situated in the Irish capital\u2019s city center, is used to a steady stream of tourists. Recently, however, these have started to show some odd behaviors. Instead of exploring the grounds, inspecting the college\u2019s venerable old halls, peering into guide books, or discussing famed alumni like Oscar Wilde or Bram Stoker in hushed tones, they have started to scan the eminent college through their smartphone screens.<\/p>\n<h2>More at <a href=\"http:\/\/betterymagazine.com\/stories\/big-city-arcade\/\" target=\"_blank\">bettery-magazine.com<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern smartphone technology turns public space into a stage for performative video gaming culture. In gaming, augmented reality \u2013 the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,93,187],"tags":[211,878,873,402,877,161,1018],"class_list":["post-3521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gamefeatures","category-lifestyle","category-technik","tag-android","tag-augmented-reality","tag-city","tag-games-features","tag-ingress","tag-ios","tag-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3521"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3542,"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions\/3542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}