{"id":851762,"date":"2025-05-28T18:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T23:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/28\/a-knee-injury-launched-this-vr-pioneers-career\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T18:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T23:12:09","slug":"a-knee-injury-launched-this-vr-pioneers-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/28\/a-knee-injury-launched-this-vr-pioneers-career\/","title":{"rendered":"A Knee Injury Launched This VR Pioneer\u2019s Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Carolina Cruz-Neira is living proof of just how far a \u201cplan B\u201d can take you. Growing up, she was determined to become a professional ballet dancer. But after injury ended her ballet dreams, Cruz-Neira went on to become a pioneer of virtual-reality technology.Carolina Cruz-Neira<br \/>\nEmployer:<\/p>\n<p>\tUniversity of Central Florida<\/p>\n<p>Occupation:<\/p>\n<p>\tComputer-science professor<br \/>\nEducation:Bachelor\u2019s degree in systems engineering&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/ballerina-turned-vr-pioneer\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Edd Gent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Carolina Cruz-Neira is living proof of just how far a \u201cplan B\u201d can take you. Growing up, she was determined to become a professional ballet dancer. But after injury ended her ballet dreams, Cruz-Neira went on to become a pioneer of virtual-reality technology.Carolina Cruz-Neira Employer: University of Central Florida Occupation: Computer-science professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":851763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1767,2115,536],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-851762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-injury","8":"category-launched","9":"category-science-nature"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}