{"id":834370,"date":"2026-07-30T22:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T22:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/834370\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T22:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T22:34:16","slug":"virtual-reality-gives-man-one-more-lap-of-the-tt-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/834370\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual reality gives man one more lap of the TT course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Thursday, 30 July 2026 14:27\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a6b511bb5f6a82450d.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            A heritage and wellbeing expert in the UK says she&#8217;s used virtual reality to give an elderly man the chance to ride the TT course once more.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Helen Wallbridge of Southampton posted about the experience on LinkedIn after interviewing a bike fan about his memories of visiting the races.<\/p>\n<p>She says she tracked down a 360-degree video filmed by a rider on a lap and streamed it through a headset to provide an immersive experience.<\/p>\n<p>And Helen added they were both emotional afterwards, when he said &#8220;I always wanted to do it one more time, and now I have&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, 30 July 2026 14:27 A heritage and wellbeing expert in the UK says she&#8217;s used virtual reality&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[159835,159830,159829,159832,64,63,159858,159840,159880,159881,159882,159883,159859,159868,159860,159838,159886,159839,159878,522,159852,159875,159876,159873,159844,159864,159867,159857,159826,159845,159827,159828,159854,159865,159866,159874,159879,159877,159843,159842,159841,523,159847,159846,159885,12536,159863,159836,159856,159862,136,159851,159872,159834,159869,159871,159861,159853,105,159855,159833,159837,159831,159884,159848,159850,159849,159870,238,239,240],"class_list":["post-834370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-3-f-m","tag-3-fm","tag-3fm","tag-3fmradio","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ben-sowrey","tag-club-classics","tag-commonwealth-youth-games","tag-cyg","tag-cyg-2011","tag-cyg2011","tag-derek-richardson","tag-energy-fm","tag-george-ferguson","tag-iom","tag-iom-news","tag-iomradio","tag-isle-of-deals","tag-isle-of-man","tag-isle-of-man-advertising","tag-isle-of-man-android","tag-isle-of-man-deals","tag-isle-of-man-facebook","tag-isle-of-man-marketing","tag-isle-of-man-media","tag-isle-of-man-news","tag-isle-of-man-online","tag-isle-of-man-radio","tag-isle-of-man-radio-advertising","tag-isle-of-man-radio-station","tag-isle-of-man-radio-stations","tag-isle-of-man-school-closures","tag-isle-of-man-television","tag-isle-of-man-tv","tag-isle-of-man-twitter","tag-isleofdeals","tag-isleofmandeals","tag-jason-quinn","tag-kevin-ford","tag-late-night-love-songs","tag-manx","tag-manx-radio","tag-manxradio","tag-matt-fletcher","tag-more","tag-more-music-on-air-online-on-ipad-and-on-iphone","tag-moremusic","tag-morning-crew","tag-morning-crew-3fm-morning-crew","tag-music","tag-nj-williams","tag-radio-player","tag-radio3fm","tag-radioplayer","tag-radioplayer-co-uk","tag-ron-berry","tag-school-closures","tag-technology","tag-the-morning-crew","tag-three-fm","tag-threedotfm","tag-threefm","tag-tony-james","tag-tt","tag-tt-race","tag-tt-races","tag-ukradioplayer","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834370","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=834370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}