{"id":24701,"date":"2013-04-18T09:22:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T16:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=24701"},"modified":"2013-04-18T09:23:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T16:23:36","slug":"beam-me-up-app-up-for-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2013\/04\/beam-me-up-app-up-for-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Beam Me Up App Up For Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24704\" title=\"BeamMeUp041813\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/BeamMeUp041813.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Beam Me Up Star Trek Augmented Reality App<\/em> is up for a <em>Webby Award<\/em> and fans can help it win.<\/p>\n<p>Last fall, fans at London&#8217;s <em>Destination Star Trek<\/em> convention were able to use a <em>Star Trek Augmented Reality<\/em> app to &#8220;beam up&#8221; from a mock-up of the Enterprise&#8217;s transporter room, and to see the results on their smartphones.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The app proved to be very popular, with over six thousand <em>Star Trek<\/em> fans &#8220;beaming up&#8221; over the course of the three-day convention, and four thousand downloading the app. <em>Star Trek: Enterprise<\/em>&#8216;s <strong>Anthony Montgomery<\/strong>, seen in the video below, said that the app was the &#8220;next best thing to actually being on set.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now the <em>Beam Me Up Augmented Reality App<\/em> is up for a <em>Webby Award<\/em>; nominated for the <em>Interactive Advertising &amp; Media\/Individual\/Augmented Reality Webby Award<\/em>. The <em>Webby Awards<\/em> honor &#8220;the best of the web.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Voting for the <em>Webby Awards<\/em> is open to the public and voting for this year&#8217;s awards will continue from now until 11:59 PM Pacific Time on Thursday, April 25. <em>The Beam Me Up Augmented Reality App<\/em> is currently in second place, and the help of Star Trek fans is needed to win the award. To vote, head to the link located <a href=\"http:\/\/pv.webbyawards.com\/nominees\/interactive-advertising-media\/individual\/augmented-reality\/beam-me-up\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/52162099\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/52162099\">Beam me up<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/realisedigital\">Realise Digital<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beam Me Up Star Trek Augmented Reality App is up for a Webby Award&#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":[4519,5549,3576],"class_list":["post-24701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom","tag-app","tag-beam-me-up","tag-convention"],"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":"1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24701","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=24701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24710,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24701\/revisions\/24710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}