{"id":107464,"date":"2018-02-14T18:37:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T09:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=107464&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2018-02-14T18:37:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T09:37:41","slug":"experience-yamakasa-in-vr","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/experience-yamakasa-in-vr\/","title":{"rendered":"Experience Yamakasa in VR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual reality (VR) devices that give users the chance to experience the Yamakasa festival were installed in various locations around Fukuoka City. These include the Hakata Machiya Folk Museum, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, and the Tourist Information Center at Fukuoka Airport International Terminal. Users can experience a range of simulations, such as a 360-degree view from the top of one of the floats used during the festival. Captions describing the event are available in Japanese, English, Korean, and Chinese. The video footage used for the VR experience has also been released on Fukuoka City\u2019s official YokaNavi YouTube channel. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/local\/fukuoka\/news\/20180201-OYTNT50188.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yomiuri Shimbun<\/a>, 2\/2\/2018<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/yamakasa-VR-yokanavi-2.jpg?resize=1400%2C680\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"680\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-107465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/yamakasa-VR-yokanavi-2.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/yamakasa-VR-yokanavi-2.jpg?resize=300%2C146&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/yamakasa-VR-yokanavi-2.jpg?resize=768%2C373&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/yamakasa-VR-yokanavi-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C497&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><br \/>\nPhoto: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UBNhcWI6TJk\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fukuoka City<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area related news for the benefit of those who cannot read Japanese. Contents posted here are mostly summaries of publicly posted news stories from Japanese media organizations. Errors might occur during translation. Those errors are ours, and not the news source\u2019s. Photos and images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Please use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\">this form<\/a> to send feedback and questions. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual reality (VR) devices that give users the chance to experience the Yamakasa festival were installed in various locations around Fukuoka City. These include&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":107465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-107464","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-city","news-category-travel-tourism","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/107464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}