Sun.Apr 22, 2018

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Earth Day: Now You Can Surf With a Legend in VR

VRScout

It was 1978 when John Ritter became the first known surfer ride the now-legendary wave dubbed “Cloudbreak” off the tiny heart-shaped Fijian island Tavarua. Now forty years later, a team of passionate environmentalists, surfers and virtual reality pioneers are working to bring that experience and John Ritter’s lifelong oceanic yacht and surfboard exploration to users in VR.

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Multi-passenger airplanes arrive on DigiWorldz

Hypergrid Business

Interested in taking a flight without worrying about the engine blowing out? You can now fly virtually, on an airplane filled with other passengers, on the Kea Nation enclave on the DigiWorldz grid. Kea Nation has brought in several airplanes recently, including the KNVV Douglas DC, which can carry up to 12 passengers. “The first test flight on the pre-release model, I flew every variable-sized region in Kea Nation,” Kea Nation owner Don Hayward — also known in-world as DA Ad