{"id":190970,"date":"2016-12-08T07:58:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T05:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=190970"},"modified":"2016-12-08T08:00:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T06:00:07","slug":"tech-giants-join-forces-on-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/190970-tech-giants-join-forces-on-vr.html","title":{"rendered":"Tech giants join forces on VR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acer Starbreeze, Google, HTC VIVE, Facebook\u2019s Oculus, Samsung, and Sony have created a non-profit organisation to promote the growth of the global virtual reality industry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gvra.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Global Virtual Reality Association<\/strong><\/a> (GVRA) will develop and share best practices for industry and foster dialogue between public and private stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the GVRA is to promote responsible development and adoption of VR.<\/p>\n<p>The association\u2019s members will conduct research and bring the VR community together as the technology progresses.<\/p>\n<p>The group will also serve as a resource for consumers, policymakers, and industries interested in VR.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/189924-how-much-a-sweet-gaming-vr-backpack-pc-costs.html\">How much a sweet gaming VR backpack PC costs<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google, HTC VIVE, Facebook\u2019s Oculus, Samsung, and Sony have formed the Global Virtual Reality Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":190972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[40114,36,40116,167,29112,645,193,18260,35372],"class_list":["post-190970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-acer-starbreeze","tag-active","tag-facebooks-oculus","tag-google","tag-htc-vive","tag-samsung","tag-sony","tag-virtual-reality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190970"}],"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=190970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190986,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190970\/revisions\/190986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}