{"id":37,"date":"2020-10-15T16:55:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T20:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/researchbdev.wpengine.com\/emerging-technologies-lab\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2021-04-02T11:51:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T15:51:09","slug":"kent-island","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/emerging-technologies-lab\/kent-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This is a long-term project that the lab will be developing over the course of the next coming years. The goal of this project is to build an interactive, accessible research environment that will allow for students of both Bowdoin and local schools to play the role of a researcher on Kent Island. In this model students will be looking at several forms of data and<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">learning the needed skills of data analysis<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and application.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Users\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">will be drawing off of years of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">real\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">data sets which focus on local plants and animals.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This experience will be built into a virtual reality environment where students will find themselves immersed in a seemingly true to life representation of the island. This project was developed in Blender and Unity.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-212\" src=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/emerging-technologies-lab\/files\/2020\/12\/Picture1-300x157.png\" alt=\"Wide angle shot of the finished models of the bird house, and half of the lab research center on a demo island. \" width=\"371\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/emerging-technologies-lab\/files\/2020\/12\/Picture1-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/emerging-technologies-lab\/files\/2020\/12\/Picture1-768x401.png 768w, https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/emerging-technologies-lab\/files\/2020\/12\/Picture1-624x326.png 624w, https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/emerging-technologies-lab\/files\/2020\/12\/Picture1.png 977w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a long-term project that the lab will be developing over the course of the next coming years. The goal of this project is to build an interactive, accessible research environment that will allow for students of both Bowdoin and local schools to play the role of a researcher on Kent Island. In this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-37","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/emerging-technologies-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/emerging-technologies-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/emerging-technologies-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/emerging-technologies-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/emerging-technologies-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/emerging-technologies-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/emerging-technologies-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}