{"id":310,"date":"2005-10-03T13:36:01","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T17:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=310"},"modified":"2024-11-26T15:29:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T23:29:28","slug":"multiworld-biking-comes-to-second-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"Multiworld Biking Comes to Second Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks over at Nonpolynomial Labs have been doing some interesting things lately (see this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonpolynomial.com\/content\/2005\/09\/eyesore_real_ti.php\">one<\/a> for an interesting example). Their latest creation is a hack to turn a stationary exercise bicycle into an input device for virtual world <a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.com\/\">Second Life<\/a>. From their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonpolynomial.com\/\">website<\/a> comes word of LifeCycle v1.0: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Second Life can be an incredibly immersive world, seeing that it is based solely on user created content. However, there is only so much immersion that can happen through a keyboard\/mouse control scheme. There are many different ways to control vehicles in real life, such as steering wheels, pedals, handle bars, and sticks, just to name a few. Implementing these control structures in Second Life allows users to get closer to the virtual world by giving them mechanisms they are familiar with in the real world.<\/p>\n<p>Biking is the first of these controls we have decided to implement, because it is so ubiquitous.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pretty cool. For the complete system, check out the project page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonpolynomial.com\/content\/2005\/09\/lifecycle.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And apparently they&#8217;re not the only one&#8217;s who have done this. A comment from qDot Bunnyhug (gotta love the names people pick) over on the SL forum suggests another resident has done something similar, and perhaps a bit better&#8230; for now. Maybe I&#8217;ll see some documentation of that thing in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks over at Nonpolynomial Labs have been doing some interesting things lately (see this one for an interesting example). Their latest creation is a hack to turn a stationary exercise bicycle into an input device for virtual world Second &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=310\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[106,157,33,28],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retransmit","tag-metaverse","tag-secondlife","tag-user-experience","tag-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3054,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/3054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}