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Another classical construction is to see the hyperfinite $\mathrm{II}_1$ factor as the infinite tensor product of the two by two matrices

$$ \mathcal{R}=\otimes_{n=1}^{\infty}{M_{2}(\mathbb{C})} $$

acting on its $L^{2}$ closure $L^{2}\Big(\otimes_{n=1}^{\infty}M_{2}(\mathbb{C})\Big)$ by right multiplication.

Then its commutant is given by the left multiplication.