{"id":8172,"date":"2018-06-08T08:24:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T08:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cel\/?p=8172"},"modified":"2018-06-08T08:24:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T08:24:07","slug":"the-urgent-case-for-an-open-ar-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2018\/06\/08\/the-urgent-case-for-an-open-ar-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"The urgent case for an Open AR Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8173\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2018\/06\/vr-ar-feb-2016-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"164\" \/>\n<p>The\u00a0non profit\u00a0behind the leading AR+VR conference and expo has announced a major initiative to promote an Open AR Cloud.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d be forgiven for having no idea what that is, but it&#8217;s a concept you should familiarize yourself with. You&#8217;ll certainly be hearing about it a lot in the months and years to come.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The AR Cloud will be the single most important software infrastructure in computing, far more valuable than Facebook&#8217;s social graph or Google&#8217;s pagerank index,&#8221; says Augmented World Expo Founder and CEO Ori Inbar.<\/p>\n<p>The craziest thing about that statement may just be that a lot of very intelligent people believe it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>Described by some as the world&#8217;s digital twin, the AR Cloud is essentially a digital copy of the real world that can be accessed by any user at any time.<\/p>\n<p>To unpack that, it&#8217;s helpful to use the more familiar concept of Google&#8217;s pagerank.<\/p>\n<section class=\"sharethrough-top\">\n<div id=\"sharethrough-top-5b193106969f3\" class=\"ad-sharethrough-top\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/8264\/uk-zdnet\/virtual-reality_5__container__\">\n<div class=\"tlod\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/the-urgent-case-for-an-open-ar-cloud\/\">READ MORE HERE &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0non profit\u00a0behind the leading AR+VR conference and expo has announced a major initiative to promote an Open AR Cloud. You&#8217;d be forgiven for having no idea what that is, but it&#8217;s a concept you should familiarize yourself with. You&#8217;ll certainly be hearing about it a lot in the months and years to come. &#8220;The AR&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2018\/06\/08\/the-urgent-case-for-an-open-ar-cloud\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about The urgent case for an Open AR Cloud<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":525,"featured_media":8173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[871],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-augmented-reality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8175,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8172\/revisions\/8175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}