{"id":4585,"date":"2014-05-19T10:51:15","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T14:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=4585"},"modified":"2017-02-03T15:57:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T20:57:20","slug":"high-tech-wind-farm-simulation-awaits-mohegan-island-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2014\/05\/19\/high-tech-wind-farm-simulation-awaits-mohegan-island-tourists\/","title":{"rendered":"High-tech Wind Farm Simulation Awaits Monhegan Island Tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"aquawindpower\"<\/a>When tourists visit Monhegan Island this summer, they may get a trip to the virtual future.<\/p>\n

Armed with digital tablets and headphones, a group of UMaine student researchers will offer willing participants a chance to immerse themselves in the sights and sounds of a scenario that could impact their experience of the island: the proposed offshore wind farm. Using an experiential technology known as \u201caugmented reality\u201d, researchers will offer tourists a glimpse and an earful of what could be \u201cactual reality\u201d in the near future.<\/p>\n

With a grant from UMaine\u2019s Sustainability Solutions Initiative (SSI), a program of the Senator George J. Mitchell Center, Giudice, and a team of faculty and student researchers will use the technology to garner opinions on the two-turbine Maine Aqua Ventus project proposed for an area about two miles off Monhegan. Participants will be interviewed before and after the high-tech encounter to measure its impact. The research is being funded by SSI\u2019s Emerging Opportunities \u2013 Foundations for Future Research grant program. Focused on broadening the scope of SSI, these projects offer researchers a chance to engage new stakeholders in new places in new ways. See more here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When tourists visit Monhegan Island this summer, they may get a trip to the virtual future. Armed with digital tablets and headphones, a group of UMaine student researchers will offer willing participants a chance to immerse themselves in the sights and sounds of a scenario that could impact their experience of the island: the proposed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":609,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":609,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11478,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions\/11478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}