{"id":16357,"date":"2012-04-09T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=16357"},"modified":"2012-04-09T13:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T20:59:00","slug":"new-star-trek-transporter-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2012\/04\/new-star-trek-transporter-app\/","title":{"rendered":"New Star Trek Transporter App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16360\" title=\"BeamMeUpApp040912\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/BeamMeUpApp040912.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Calgary Comic &amp; Entertainment Expo and Vulcan Tourism Transporter App will allow <em>Star Trek<\/em> fans to &#8220;beam themselves or their friends up&#8221; courtesy of a &#8220;transporter room&#8221; bus shelter and their iPhone or iPad.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the new Trek-themed bus shelters were launched April 4 in Calgary, Canada, with &#8220;Trek-themed &#8216;Augmented Reality&#8217; technology, and will be available for fan use through the end of April.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->A third Trek-themed bus shelter will be on display at the Vulcan Tourism booth area at the Calgary Expo, which will run from April 27-29.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This technology [designed by E-axis] is so cool; it&#8217;s an interactive way for fans to have some fun,&#8221; said <strong>Kandrix Foong<\/strong>, Director of The Calgary Expo, who spent two months planning the concept in partnership with Vulcan Tourism. &#8220;It&#8217;s just one aspect of the celebration for the twenty-fifth anniversary of <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em> and the cast reunion activities we have planned during the weekend of April 27-29.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We own the software,\u201d said <strong>Catherine Pooley<\/strong>, Vulcan\u2019s tourism coordinator, who added that the software will give Vulcan Tourism the ability to create backdrops all over town.<\/p>\n<p>The Trek-themed bus shelters in Calgary are located at 4 St. at 17 Ave. S.W., and 9th Avenue and 3 Street SW.<\/p>\n<p>The video below shows how the &#8220;beaming up&#8221; process works.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9ES6aS82K2k\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Calgary Comic &amp; Entertainment Expo and Vulcan Tourism Transporter App will allow Star Trek&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2416],"tags":[3130,2496,4270],"class_list":["post-16357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom","tag-ipadd","tag-iphone","tag-transporter-app"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/fandom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Fandom<\/a>","tag_info":"Fandom","comment_count":"5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16366,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16357\/revisions\/16366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}