{"id":50,"date":"2004-10-01T11:34:15","date_gmt":"2004-10-01T16:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/wordpress\/?p=50"},"modified":"2004-10-01T11:34:15","modified_gmt":"2004-10-01T16:34:15","slug":"the-invisible-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"The Invisible Train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0001011\/\">Scobleizer,<\/a> we find the <a href=\"http:\/\/studierstube.org\/invisible_train\/\">Invisible Train,<\/a> a train that runs on wooden tracks (a la <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasthetankengine.com\">Thomas the Tank Engine<\/a>, a known favourite in our household), but really doesn&#8217;t. Those crazy college kids:<\/p>\n<pre>The Invisible Train is a mobile, collaborative multi-user Augmented<br>Reality (AR) game, in which players control virtual trains on a real wooden<br>miniature railroad track. These virtual trains are only visible to<br>players through their PDA's video see-through display as they don't <br>exist in the physical world. This type of user interface is commonly called <br>the \"magic lens metaphor.\"<\/pre>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think it would hold Gareth&#8217;s attention for very long &#8212; and Naomi would wreck the PDA with drool and repetitive chewing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the Scobleizer, we find the Invisible Train, a train that runs on wooden tracks (a la Thomas the Tank Engine, a known favourite in our household), but really doesn&#8217;t. Those crazy college kids: The Invisible Train is a mobile, collaborative multi-user AugmentedReality (AR) game, in which players control virtual trains on a real woodenminiature&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=50\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Invisible Train<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-bytes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}