{"id":170427,"date":"2016-07-01T08:39:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T06:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=170427"},"modified":"2016-07-01T08:40:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T06:40:51","slug":"rio-olympics-in-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/170427-rio-olympics-in-vr.html","title":{"rendered":"Rio Olympics in VR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News reported that NBC will offer 85 hours of virtual reality programming on the 2016 Rio Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The programming will only be available to Samsung Galaxy smartphone and Gear VR headset users.<\/p>\n<p>The VR programming will include the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, men\u2019s basketball, gymnastics, track and field, beach volleyball, diving, boxing, and fencing.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be highlight packages which will be shown in virtual reality.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Samsung<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/168639-samsung-named-top-south-african-youth-brand.html\"><strong>Samsung named top South African youth brand<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/168129-samsung-is-the-sickest-cellphone-in-south-africa.html\">Samsung is the sickest cellphone in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/industrynews\/168011-protect-your-galaxy-s7s-data-with-samsung-knox.html\">Protect your Galaxy S7\u2019s data with Samsung KNOX<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC is planning to provide virtual reality programming during the Rio Olympics, available on Samsung devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":170431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[37889,36,9453,37887,37885],"class_list":["post-170427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-2016-rio-olympics","tag-active","tag-nbc","tag-samsung-galaxy-smartphones","tag-samsung-gear-vr-headset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170433,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170427\/revisions\/170433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}