{"id":9284,"date":"2020-12-17T16:48:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T15:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/?p=9284"},"modified":"2020-12-17T16:48:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T15:48:33","slug":"gather-town-a-virtual-place-to-gather-while-staying-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/type\/book-reviews\/gather-town-a-virtual-place-to-gather-while-staying-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Gather.town &#8211; a virtual place to gather while staying at home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/gather.town\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gather<\/a> is building virtual spaces for people to live and interact more effectively online. They&#8217;re starting with a web-based video calling experience that serves the urgent needs of people today. Gather combines video-calling with a 2D map, letting you walk around and talk to the other people right next to you. Their&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/gather.town\/mapmaker\" target=\"_blank\">creation tools<\/a>&nbsp;also let you make your own customised, interactive spaces . You can also host classes and workshops, set up office hours, virtualise an auditorium, sit by the campfire, take a walk in the park, or watch your favorite movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"505\" src=\"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2020\/12\/Screenshot-2020-12-10-at-11.12.36-1024x505.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2020\/12\/Screenshot-2020-12-10-at-11.12.36-1024x505.png 1024w, https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2020\/12\/Screenshot-2020-12-10-at-11.12.36-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2020\/12\/Screenshot-2020-12-10-at-11.12.36-768x378.png 768w, https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2020\/12\/Screenshot-2020-12-10-at-11.12.36-370x182.png 370w, https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2020\/12\/Screenshot-2020-12-10-at-11.12.36-270x133.png 270w, https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2020\/12\/Screenshot-2020-12-10-at-11.12.36-570x281.png 570w, https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2020\/12\/Screenshot-2020-12-10-at-11.12.36-740x365.png 740w, https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2020\/12\/Screenshot-2020-12-10-at-11.12.36.png 1104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gather is building virtual spaces for people to live and interact more effectively online. They&#8217;re starting with a web-based video calling experience that serves the urgent needs of people today. Gather combines video-calling with a 2D map, letting you walk around and talk to the other people right next to you. Their&nbsp;creation tools&nbsp;also let you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[270,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-av-technologies","category-book-reviews"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2020\/12\/Screenshot-2020-12-10-at-11.07.55.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Dovile Dudenaite","author_link":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/author\/dovile-dudenaite\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9284"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9387,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9284\/revisions\/9387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}