OKX launches metaverse training session with football star Rúben Días

Cryptocurrency speech and Web3 exertion developer OKX has been progressive successful the abstraction implicit the past month, with the latest announcement connected its archetypal immersive metaverse instrumentality acquisition arsenic a portion of its “OKX Collective."

On April 3, the institution revealed a collaboration called “Train Like Dias” with 1 of its marque ambassadors and footballer from Manchester City, Rúben Días.

According to the announcement, fans volition beryllium capable to virtually acquisition Días’ favourite grooming techniques and person vulnerability to coaching and tips. The acquisition is unfastened to fans wrong the OKX Collective metaverse.

Join maine and @OKX successful the #OKXCollective metaverse to spot immoderate of my favourite grooming drills and springiness them a try! It’s your precise ain 1-to-1 grooming session… reckon you tin support up? #adhttps://t.co/NW2CR3YMKw pic.twitter.com/w91e9SFYRS

— Rúben Dias (@rubendias) April 3, 2023

Haider Rafique, the planetary main selling serviceman astatine OKX, commented that the caller immersive acquisition helps link fans and “is different large illustration of what this exertion allows."

"The possibilities that Web3 tin connection are immense and lone constricted by our ain imaginations."

OKX and Manchester City officially became partners backmost successful July 2022, and the level hinted astatine aboriginal offerings of Web3-content from different players connected the squad including Alex Greenwood, Ilkay Gündoğan and Jack Grealish.

Metaverse avatar for OKX Collection immersive metaverse experience. Source: OKX

Cointelegraph reached retired to OKX and Días for a remark connected the immersive experience. 

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The metaverse continues to beryllium the adjacent frontier to research connections betwixt carnal reality and Web3 applications arsenic seen with “Train Like Dias”. However, caller events surrounding improvement successful the metaverse person been mixed aft Disney reportedly scraped its metaverse division. 

That came lone a week aft rumors began to circulate that Animoca Brands, a salient metaverse developer successful the space, had cuts of astir $200 million to its metaverse fund. Animoca promptly denied those claims. 

Nissan recently filed On the different hand, South Korea launched a ‘Metaverse Fund’ connected March 12 intending to accelerate metaverse initiatives wrong the state and automotive shaper Nissan recently filed aggregate Web3 trademarks and trialed income successful the metaverse.

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