{"id":15336,"date":"2019-06-03T15:17:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T15:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/room-scale-vr\/"},"modified":"2020-01-02T09:07:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T09:07:54","slug":"room-scale-vr","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/33644\/room-scale-vr","title":{"rendered":"Room-Scale VR"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_room-scale_vr_mean\">What Does Room-Scale VR Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In virtual reality, room-scale VR is the idea of connecting a physical room or space to a virtual reality world. It is part of the emerging virtual reality industry, and it is a component of how VR is innovating to provide more compelling virtual reality experiences for users.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"techopedia_explains_room-scale_vr\">Techopedia Explains Room-Scale VR<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Resources for room-scale VR include software that matches a dedicated room or space to a virtual world, as well as some type of tactile equipment or products that regulate the user\u2019s motion through the room-scaled space. In general, room scaling helps to create more sophistication around VR platforms.<\/p>\n<p>For example, a team of engineers might take a room of specific proportions (i.e., 10&#215;20\u2019) and think about how to \u201cmap\u201d a virtual space inside it, in order to make the virtual world \u201cfit\u201d \u2014 of course, although everything is digitized in code, the program can benefit from synchronicity with the dimensions of the space that it rests in. 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