{"id":149037,"date":"2023-04-18T18:48:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T22:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=149037"},"modified":"2023-04-18T18:48:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T22:48:50","slug":"vr-superstar-to-present-at-science-rendezvous-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/vr-superstar-to-present-at-science-rendezvous-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"VR superstar to present at Science Rendezvous next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Science Rendezvous \u2014 the annual event that brings together the Kingston community with local S.T.E.M (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) experts and researchers \u2014 will be taking over the Leon\u2019s Centre on May 13. .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the keay features of this year\u2019s event is Bayridge Secondary School student Elijah's presentation, where he will be presenting his virtual reality work. Elijah dove into the world of coding on Minecraft in middle school, and then started experimenting with BeatSaber, an online game of over 1.5 million active players, in which <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">players use objects similar to a lightsaber to slash 3-D cubes that come at them, to the beat of a song. The local student created all the effects, visuals, and graphics for his map, which is to the song \u201cSomewhere Out There\u201d by acloudyskye. His map is the most played map of all time on BeatSaber, and won map of the year in 2021.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Science Rendezvous\u2019 theme this year is \u201cCREATE\u201d in which participants will show <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">how discoveries are made and new knowledge is constructed by scientists in labs, forests, space, underground, in hospitals, remote stations, and more. The goal is to show young people that researchers and scientists vary in every way, and that opportunities are emerging in fields that did not previously exist.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The event on <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">May 13 runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>To learn more about Elijah\u2019s VR work for BeatSaber, listen to the full interview here:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Rendezvous \u2014 the annual event that brings together the Kingston community with local S.T.E.M (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) experts and researchers \u2014 will be taking over the Leon\u2019s Centre on May 13. . One of the keay features of this year\u2019s event is Bayridge Secondary School student Elijah&#8217;s presentation, where he will be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":149039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,221],"tags":[25188,25190,25189,18758],"radio":[13056],"origine":[267,13051,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149037"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149124,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149037\/revisions\/149124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149037"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=149037"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=149037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}