{"id":370983,"date":"2026-01-15T08:29:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/370983\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T08:29:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:29:06","slug":"ipswich-history-brought-to-life-through-virtual-reality-goggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/370983\/","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":370984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[86,56,54,55,4297,4298,4299],"class_list":["post-370983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}