{"id":76852,"date":"2021-09-28T09:48:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T13:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=76852"},"modified":"2021-09-28T09:48:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T13:48:33","slug":"boston-startup-fights-seniors-isolation-with-vr-campbell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/09\/28\/boston-startup-fights-seniors-isolation-with-vr-campbell\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston startup fights seniors&#8217; isolation with VR [Campbell]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/boston\/inno\/stories\/news\/2021\/09\/24\/rendever-vr-isolation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Boston startup fights seniors&#8217; isolation with VR<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from bizjournals.com by Emma Campbell<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Social isolation is a term that more Americans have become familiar with due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but it&#8217;s a concept that was already intimately familiar to one segment of the population: the elderly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Isolation disproportionately affects the aging population in the U.S. and can lead to significant mental and physical health issues for seniors. But there&#8217;s a Boston-based startup, Rendever, using a unique tool to fight it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>\u201cWe&#8217;ve always thought that the foundation of all human connection is shared positive experience,&#8221; Rand said. &#8220;So what we&#8217;ve done is we&#8217;ve spent the past five years building a really strong experience platform that allows people to come together, put on their headsets, and go and check off a bucket list item.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston startup fights seniors&#8217; isolation with VR &#8212; from bizjournals.com by Emma Campbell Excerpts: Social isolation is a term that more Americans have become familiar with due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but it&#8217;s a concept that was already intimately familiar to one segment of the population: the elderly. Isolation disproportionately affects the aging population in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,533,359,500,480,293,321,312,367,253,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurship","category-experimentation","category-health","category-hearts-matters-of-the-heart","category-society","category-sociology","category-united-states","category-user-experience-ux","category-vendors","category-virtual-reality-worlds-learning","category-vision-possibilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76852"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76855,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76852\/revisions\/76855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}