{"id":32048,"date":"2017-06-04T16:50:33","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/walmart-is-training-employees-with-a-black-friday\/"},"modified":"2017-06-04T16:50:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:50:33","slug":"walmart-is-training-employees-with-a-black-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/walmart-is-training-employees-with-a-black-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart is training employees with a Black Friday VR simulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/6\/1\/15725732\/walmart-strivr-vr-training-module'>Walmart is training employees with a Black Friday VR simulator<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>The headline strikes me as an Onion headline. If this is not satire then this is a mile marker on the journey toward\u00a0the domestication of VR. There is something very much hump of the bell-curve about anything associated with Walmart. Imagine a post-retirement age greeter donning a VR rig as pre-black-friday preparation ritual. That image locates VR as inching beyond the well of despair of the hype cycle and comfortably in the realm of stable revenue models.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart is training employees with a Black Friday VR simulator The headline strikes me as an Onion headline. If this is not satire then this is a mile marker on the journey toward\u00a0the domestication of VR. There is something very much hump of the bell-curve about anything associated with Walmart. Imagine a post-retirement age greeter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-32048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8kU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}