{"id":15488,"date":"2016-05-04T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=15488"},"modified":"2016-05-04T08:00:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T12:00:02","slug":"clemson-featured-in-google-college-expeditions-virtual-reality-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/clemson-featured-in-google-college-expeditions-virtual-reality-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Clemson featured in Google college expeditions virtual reality project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15511 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bowman-340x187.jpg\" alt=\"bowman-340x187\" width=\"340\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/05\/bowman-340x187.jpg 340w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/05\/bowman-340x187-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/>Clemson is one of the featured participants in Google\u2019s Expeditions Pioneer Program, a virtual reality project that will enable children in schools across the world to visit colleges and universities without ever stepping foot on the campuses. One of the locations the Google virtual campus tour will take students is Clemson\u2019s historic Bowman Field.<br \/>\nClemson is the first university in South Carolina invited to participate. Schools in the program represent a wide variety of institutions, from community colleges to internationally recognizable universities.<br \/>\nThe virtual reality experience can be accessed with a smartphone and Google Cardboard \u2014 a simple cardboard viewer that can be ordered or built with downloadable plans through the Google Cardboard website:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/get\/cardboard\">https:\/\/www.google.com\/get\/cardboard<\/a>.<br \/>\nClemson\u2019s Creative Services and Digital Marketing teams worked together to create text and imagery to feature in the virtual tour experience. Viewers of Clemson content in the program will be able to experience more than 30 points of interest on campus via panoramic photography, including the Watt Family Innovation Center, R.M. Cooper Library, the Outdoor Amphitheater, Bowman Field, Howard\u2019s Rock and many others.<br \/>\nGoogle hopes to release the app to the public by the end of the 2015-2016 school year. Until then anyone can request access by going to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/fuQb6c.\">https:\/\/goo.gl\/fuQb6c.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clemson is one of the featured participants in Google\u2019s Expeditions Pioneer Program, a virtual reality project that will enable children in schools across the world to visit colleges and universities without ever stepping foot on the campuses. One of the locations the Google virtual campus tour will take students is Clemson\u2019s historic Bowman Field. Clemson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1398,2697,3202],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-15488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-these-hills","tag-google","tag-spring-2016-in-these-hills","tag-virtual-reality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/05\/bowman-340x187.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15488"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}