{"id":15,"date":"2025-09-16T15:41:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWPsych\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2025-09-29T20:44:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T20:44:49","slug":"shared-goals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWPsych\/shared-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Shared Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A shared goal in&nbsp;<em>\u201cPeople, Places, and Time\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;is figuring out how virtual reality can help people connect and learn better over time. The authors state,&nbsp;<em>\u201cAs the metaverse expands, understanding how people use virtual reality to learn and connect is increasingly important.\u201d<\/em>&nbsp; They\u2019re not just interested in cool avatars or fancy graphics, they want to see if these digital spaces can support real interaction. The study looks at how things like group bonding, enjoyment, and presence grow the more time people spend together in VR. This definitely lines up with digital humanities. Both are wondering how do digital tools shape the way we relate to each other? How can we design them to make those interactions more human?  The goal is the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWPsych\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-78\" style=\"width:384px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shared goal in&nbsp;\u201cPeople, Places, and Time\u201d&nbsp;is figuring out how virtual reality can help people connect and learn better over time. The authors state,&nbsp;\u201cAs the metaverse expands, understanding how people use virtual reality to learn and connect is increasingly important.\u201d&nbsp; They\u2019re not just interested in cool avatars or fancy graphics, they want to see if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWPsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWPsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWPsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWPsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWPsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWPsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWPsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classprojects.digitalwcu.org\/AWPsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}