{"id":414258,"date":"2026-01-15T08:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/414258\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T08:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:48:07","slug":"ipswich-history-brought-to-life-through-virtual-reality-goggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/414258\/","title":{"rendered":"Ipswich history brought to life through virtual reality goggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A town&#8217;s Victorian past is being brought back to life through virtual reality binoculars. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Six augmented and virtual reality goggles have been installed at historic venues across Ipswich to allow users to view free images and sounds from 1895. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People will be able to see a mix of &#8220;innovation and tradition&#8221; that characterise the era, including digitised images of gas-lit streets, markets, electric trams and working docks, Ipswich Borough Council said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Neil MacDonald its Labour leader hopes it gets people into the town who will then stay and spend money in shops, cafes and pubs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A town&#8217;s Victorian past is being brought back to life through virtual reality binoculars. Six augmented and virtual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[64,63,105,238,239,240],"class_list":["post-414258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}