{"589211":{"#nid":"589211","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Mathematicians create warped worlds in virtual reality","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETo explore the mathematical possibilities of alternative geometries, mathematicians imagine such \u0026lsquo;non-Euclidean\u0026rsquo; spaces, where parallel lines can intersect or veer apart. Now, with the help of r\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/low-cost-headsets-boost-virtual-reality-s-lab-appeal-1.19881\u0022\u003Eelatively affordable VR devices\u003C\/a\u003E, researchers are making curved spaces \u0026mdash; a counter-intuitive concept with implications for Einstein\u0026rsquo;s theory underlying gravity and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/low-cost-headsets-boost-virtual-reality-s-lab-appeal-1.19881\u0022\u003Ealso for seismology\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026mdash; more accessible. They may even uncover new mathematics in the process.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;You can think about it, but you don\u0026rsquo;t get a very visceral sense of this until you actually experience it,\u0026rdquo; says\u003Cstrong\u003E Elisabetta Matsumoto, a physicist at the Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E in Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2017-03-23 19:03:08","changed_gmt":"2017-03-23 19:05:29","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"college of engineering; ISyE; fellowships; grad students; student awards; orise; cdc","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/mathematicians-create-warped-worlds-in-virtual-reality-1.21689?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews","dateline":{"date":"2017-03-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-03-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"589212":{"id":"589212","type":"image","title":"Elisabetta Matsumoto","body":null,"created":"1490295854","gmt_created":"2017-03-23 19:04:14","changed":"1490295854","gmt_changed":"2017-03-23 19:04:14","alt":"","file":{"fid":"224501","name":"sabetta_matsumoto_headshot.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sabetta_matsumoto_headshot.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/sabetta_matsumoto_headshot.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":40709,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/sabetta_matsumoto_headshot.jpg?itok=U8OxHzIw"}}},"media_ids":["589212"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"145251","name":"virtual reality"},{"id":"173840","name":"hyperbolic space"},{"id":"173838","name":"Elisabetta Matsumoto"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}