{"id":413,"date":"2015-10-11T22:03:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T03:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/?p=413"},"modified":"2015-10-11T22:03:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T03:03:28","slug":"second-life-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/2015\/10\/second-life-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In choosing an avatar, I found that there were not any choices that directly resembled me in any way, so I just swapped avatars until I settled on one after becoming tired and bored with attempting to find one that felt like it should be me.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1819\n2451\/2015\/10\/Screenshot-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-417\" src=\"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1819\n2451\/2015\/10\/Screenshot-1-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1819\/2015\/10\/Screenshot-1-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1819\/2015\/10\/Screenshot-1-650x365.png 650w, https:\/\/cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my-dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1819\/2015\/10\/Screenshot-1.png 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I would not label Second Life as virtual reality. When I envision virtual reality, I see something that is not only immersive, but blurs the lines between reality and fiction. Second Life simply is not at that point. However, as this is not a class about game design, I will say that the game itself is enjoyable. Being able to explore freely without any limitations is one of the perks of playing a VR game. Even the inclusion of flying is a unique concept that is hardly explored in this type of media, although it is strange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In choosing an avatar, I found that there were not any choices that directly resembled me in any way, so I just swapped avatars until I settled on one after becoming tired and bored with attempting to find one that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/2015\/10\/second-life-5\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/robot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}