{"id":3318,"date":"2015-11-08T18:51:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T18:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=3318"},"modified":"2015-11-08T18:51:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T18:51:43","slug":"mossy-virtual-reality-helmets-let-you-see-the-forest-as-animals-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/08\/mossy-virtual-reality-helmets-let-you-see-the-forest-as-animals-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Mossy Virtual Reality Helmets Let You See the Forest as Animals Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ITEOTA TEASER\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/140057053?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/250662\/mossy-virtual-reality-helmets-let-you-see-the-forest-as-animals-do\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"417\" width=\"625\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/20150918-VL4A1305-1024x683.jpg?resize=625%2C417&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Compared to certain animals, humans have pretty\u00a0limited vision.\u00a0We see in a mere\u00a0three color wavelengths (combinations of red, blue, and green), while the eyes of dragonflies, for example, process 12, giving them\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn27015-dragonfly-eyes-see-the-world-in-ultra-multicolour\/\" target=\"_blank\">ultra-multicolor vision<\/a>. But now,\u00a0with design studio<a href=\"http:\/\/marshmallowlaserfeast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marshmallow Laser Feast<\/a>\u2018s new virtual reality helmets, you don\u2019t have to wait to be reincarnated as an insect to see\u00a0the world the way super-sighted animals do.<\/p>\n<p>Called \u201cIn the Eyes of the Animal,\u201d these globular helmets use virtual reality\u00a0technology to create real-time artistic interpretations of how a forest might look to three of its\u00a0animal inhabitants:\u00a0a dragonfly, an owl, and a frog. Marshmallow Laser Feast designers Robin McNicholas, Barney Steel, and\u00a0Adam Doherty used data taken from LiDAR (remote sensing technology), CT scans, and aerial drone footage\u00a0to achieve these sense-hacking effects.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/250662\/mossy-virtual-reality-helmets-let-you-see-the-forest-as-animals-do\/\">Mossy Virtual Reality Helmets Let You See the Forest as Animals Do<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compared to certain animals, humans have pretty\u00a0limited vision.\u00a0We see in a mere\u00a0three color wavelengths (combinations of red, blue, and green), while the eyes of dragonflies, for example, process 12, giving them\u00a0ultra-multicolor vision. But now,\u00a0with design studioMarshmallow Laser Feast\u2018s new virtual reality helmets, you don\u2019t have to wait to be reincarnated as an insect to see\u00a0the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-Rw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3320,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions\/3320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}