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Snoop Dogg’s New Music Video Was Shot In The Metaverse

VRScout

Last September it was announced that Snoop was developing his own virtual world inside The Sandbox , one of several rapidly-growing social metaverse platforms. Snoop’s virtual world is so popular that one superfan recently spent a jaw-dropping $500,000 to be the rapper’s virtual neighbor.

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

VRScout

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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Collective Experiences in Virtual Worlds to Acquire and Engage Users

ARVR

A collection of images from a virtual world event, were the users contributed to an art piece by taking abstract photos. Enticing People to Try Out Your Universe Intent to enter into a virtual world starts on flat surfaces. How do we get people to dip their toes into the virtual world from these surfaces?

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Recommended Readings on Virtual Worlds

ARVR

Designing Virtual Worlds Amazon Link Richard Bartle is heavily cited in virtual worlds due to his creation of the MUD (multi-user dungeon). This textbook details the history of many different MUDs and all the variants of virtual worlds. What other books would you recommend? Don’t forget to give us your ?? !

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Video Series Shares the Secrets to Great Mixed Reality Capture for VR

Road to VR

There’s no better way to show off a VR game than with a mixed reality captured which shows a real player inside of a virtual world; unfortunately setting it all up is no easy task. The post Video Series Shares the Secrets to Great Mixed Reality Capture for VR appeared first on Road to VR.

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Educator compares virtual worlds for education, prefers OpenSim

Hypergrid Business

OpenSim is more flexible and economic to use when compared to other game engines like Minecraft , Mozilla Hubs , and Sansar , especially when it comes to creating and designing virtual worlds that can be applied for education. Virtual worlds for sustainability. Vircadia can be a solution. I am studying about it.”

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Generative AI and Virtual Worlds

Building the Metaverse

A few days ago, my team won grant prize the LA AI Virtual Worlds hackathon during the a16z Tech Week by creating a roleplaying game in one day. A big part of that is generative AI — as well as the work we’re doing at Beamable to enable you to get the servers set up for entire worlds setup on “day zero.”