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Ride Your Real Bike In The Virtual World With The Blync VR Controller

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Kindona Limited, a small group engineers and designers lead by Izuchukwu Okongwu, is currently in development of a VR-enabled bike controller that will allow you to navigate virtual worlds from the seat of your real-world bicycle. Those interested in learning more can visit the official Kickstarter page.

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The Future Group Raises $20 Million to Blend Real-world Video With Virtual Worlds

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The Future Group has raised $20 million for its technology that blends real-world video with virtual worlds to immerse people inside what feels like an interactive game show. Above: The Future Group’s Jens Petter Hoili (left) and Bård Anders Kasin. Image Credit: The Future Group.

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Valo Motion Officially Launches Mixed Reality Playground ValoArena in the US

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When people turned to the virtual world to connect with each other at the height of the pandemic, MMOs and other multiplayer games got a boost in popularity. Enhancing Shared Experiences in the Physical World. Multiplayer XR games also began growing as a new genre of immersive cooperative play.

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Niantic Brings Its Real-World Metaverse To Browsers

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This first-of-its-kind browser-based technology will connect the real world with the virtual world by anchoring WebAR (browser-based augmented reality) content to locations and enabling virtual objects to interact with the physical world. Credit: Niantic.

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Educators sour on virtual worlds

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Educators are souring on virtual worlds, as evidenced by declining participation in online forums, in virtual conference attendances and education-related destinations on the Second Life grid. Another discussion group, the official Second Life Educators forum , has only had 214 posts since it launched in 2013.

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Could Origami Be The Future Of VR Haptics?

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A group of researchers based out of Westlake University in China has developed a device that can improve the realism and fidelity of objects in VR using an approach inspired by origami, the art of paper folding to create 3D figures and shapes. The art of folding paper could be the key to unlocking more realistic VR experiences.

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Comprehensive Glossary of the Most Frequently Used VR Terms

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An avatar is the 3D representation of the user in the virtual world. Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE). This is a virtual reality environment, delimited by 3 to 6 walls. To create the VR environment, projectors display the elements of the world on the walls. Degrees of Freedom (DoF).