{"id":9780,"date":"2023-11-14T10:56:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T17:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9780"},"modified":"2023-11-04T11:33:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T18:33:23","slug":"classic-ghost-stories-in-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9780","title":{"rendered":"Classic ghost stories in VR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One area in which VR seems to land well is scary experiences. Everything from walking on a <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/517160\/Richies_Plank_Experience\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/517160\/Richies_Plank_Experience\/\">tiny plank  hundreds of feet in the air<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1183030\/Layers_of_Fear_VR\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1183030\/Layers_of_Fear_VR\/\">to madness<\/a>, to the <a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/sharedfiles\/filedetails\/?l=german&amp;id=1379024777\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/sharedfiles\/filedetails\/?l=german&amp;id=1379024777\">isolation of space<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a lover of <a href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?cat=29\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?cat=29\">classic ghost stories from the Edwardian and Victorian eras<\/a>, I applaud this attempt by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abigailsalvesen.com\/games-vr\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.abigailsalvesen.com\/games-vr\">Abi Salvesen to retell H.G. Wells&#8217; <em>The Red Room<\/em><\/a> as a VR experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Give it a watch. Or curl up with a cup of warm drink, start a fire, and <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Z5dzlSZsg_U?si=vohj0NJRbW73OgXa\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Z5dzlSZsg_U?si=vohj0NJRbW73OgXa\">give an audio version a listen<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZUUSCT0VyhQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One area in which VR seems to land well is scary experiences. Everything from walking on a tiny plank hundreds of feet in the air, to madness, to the isolation of space. As a lover of classic ghost stories from the Edwardian and Victorian eras, I applaud this attempt by Abi Salvesen to retell H.G. Wells&#8217; The Red Room as a VR experience. Give it a watch. Or curl up with a cup of warm drink, start a fire, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9780\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,9,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ghost-stories","category-cool","category-vr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-2xK","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9780"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9980,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9780\/revisions\/9980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}