{"id":576134,"date":"2026-07-30T21:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/576134\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T21:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:27:15","slug":"virtual-reality-gives-man-one-more-lap-of-the-tt-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/576134\/","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\/ie\/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>\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":576135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[77077,77072,77071,77074,77100,77082,77122,77123,77124,77125,77101,77110,77102,61,77080,77128,77081,60,77120,19528,77094,77117,77118,77115,77086,77106,77109,77099,77068,77087,77069,77070,77096,77107,77108,77116,77121,77119,77085,77084,77083,19529,77089,77088,77127,5907,77105,77078,77098,77104,278,77093,77114,77076,77111,77113,77103,77095,80,77097,77075,77079,77073,77126,77090,77092,77091,77112,210,211,212],"class_list":["post-576134","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-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-ie","tag-iom","tag-iom-news","tag-iomradio","tag-ireland","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\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}