{"id":4643,"date":"2012-04-24T09:01:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T06:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=4643"},"modified":"2012-04-24T09:01:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T06:01:27","slug":"why-ar-horror-rarely-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/04\/24\/why-ar-horror-rarely-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Why AR horror rarely works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Google <a href=\"http:\/\/perfectworlds.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/14\/google-developing-a-home-gaming-console\/\">gears up<\/a> for the augmented-reality gaming home, delivered to wireless AR glasses straight from the Web browser (no DVDs involved), Philip Reed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2012\/04\/feature_why_ar_horror_just_isnt_cutting_it?page=2\">muses on why augmented reality horror doesn&#8217;t work<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;its scares, for technological reasons, need to be telegraphed. If a scary face is going to come out of a book, that can be scary. But when the game requires you to meticulously create a scenario in which that is possible, it&#8217;s easy to guess what&#8217;s coming, and the simple surprise \u2014 and subsequent scare \u2014 is lost before it ever comes.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Google gears up for the augmented-reality gaming home, delivered to wireless AR glasses straight from the Web browser (no &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/04\/24\/why-ar-horror-rarely-works\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}