{"id":12130,"date":"2020-05-30T10:48:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T17:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=12130"},"modified":"2020-05-30T10:48:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T17:48:53","slug":"google-releases-sodar-visualizing-social-distancing-via-webxr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/30\/google-releases-sodar-visualizing-social-distancing-via-webxr\/","title":{"rendered":"Google releases &#8220;Sodar,&#8221; visualizing social distancing via WebXR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s as much about testing\/showcasing emerging standards as anything. Per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/21274383\/google-social-distancing-ar-tool-two-meters-six-feet-sodar-measure\">The Verge<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>If you\u2019ve got an Android device, just open up the Chrome browser and go to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gle\/sodar\">goo.gle\/sodar<\/a>\u00a0to launch the tool, named SODAR. There\u2019s no app required, though it won\u2019t work on iOS or older Android devices. Your phone will use augmented reality to map the space around you, superimposing a two-meter radius circle on the view from your camera.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"619\" height=\"392\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sodar.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12137\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sodar &#8211; use WebXR to help visualise social distancing guidelines in your environment. Using Sodar on supported mobile devices, create an augmented reality two meter radius ring around you. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/hacktohelp?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#hacktohelp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Bu78QrEN9f\">https:\/\/t.co\/Bu78QrEN9f<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kufatNFDQk\">pic.twitter.com\/kufatNFDQk<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Experiments with Google (@ExpWithGoogle) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ExpWithGoogle\/status\/1266039294222831617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s as much about testing\/showcasing emerging standards as anything. Per The Verge: If you\u2019ve got an Android device, just open up the Chrome browser and go to\u00a0goo.gle\/sodar\u00a0to launch the tool, named SODAR. There\u2019s no app required, though it won\u2019t work on iOS or older Android devices. Your phone will use augmented reality to map the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12130"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12138,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130\/revisions\/12138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}