The MTG is one of the partners of a new EU project called Metaverse1 that started on October 1st 2008 and that will promote global standards among real and virtual worlds. The Metaverse1 project will provide a standardized global framework that enables the interoperability between virtual worlds (as for example Second Life, World of Warcraft, IMVU, Google Earth and many others) and the real world (sensors, actuators, vision and rendering, social and welfare systems, banking, insurance, travel, real estate and many others). 

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