{"id":218706,"date":"2017-07-07T09:30:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T07:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=218706"},"modified":"2017-07-07T09:33:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T07:33:21","slug":"google-unveils-blocks-3d-modelling-tool-for-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/218706-google-unveils-blocks-3d-modelling-tool-for-vr.html","title":{"rendered":"Google unveils Blocks 3D modelling tool for VR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has launched its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.google\/products\/google-vr\/blocks-easily-create-3d-objects-vr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Blocks 3D<\/strong><\/a> modelling tool for VR creators.<\/p>\n<p>Blocks allows users to build 3D objects in a virtual reality environment and is compatible with the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the tool can be used by creators with no modelling experience.<\/p>\n<p>Once completed, projects can be exported and used in various AR and VR applications.<\/p>\n<p>Blocks is available for free on\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/533970\/Blocks_by_Google\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steam<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oculus.com\/experiences\/rift\/1320373124698683\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oculus Store<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1TX81cRqfUU\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/218508-google-opens-deepmind-ai-research-lab.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google opens new DeepMind AI research lab<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has launched its new Blocks 3D modelling tool for VR creators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":152157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[44372,44370,167,35372],"class_list":["post-218706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-3d-modelling","tag-blocks","tag-google","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218706"}],"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=218706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218736,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218706\/revisions\/218736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}