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#AugmentedReality #VirtualReality

Jan 3

Excited to announce I'm leading a panel at #AWE2023! "Avatars, Environments & Self-Expression - from Social VR to Cross-reality Experiences." 5/31-6/2/2023, Santa Clara, CA. Join us! Tickets: awexr.com

@Arealityevent

awexr.com

AWE - a leading VR and AR Events Provider - Where XR Business Thrives

AWE is a leading VR and AR Events provider since 2010. Join an inspiring community of XR professionals, innovators, startups, creators, developers and brands

Jan 28

I had an exuberantly spooky good time at "Murder Ballads," new show from

@Ferryman_VR

: artistry, avatars, atmospheric sets & writing by Brian Tull, + layered, funny performances & scripts

@braden_roy

@RatCityLeah

. Last show tomorrow-all others sold out! ferryman-collective.ticketleap.com/murder-ballads/

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Leah Sullivan/LookUpLulu

@RatCityLeah

Jan 23

Come see me, @braden_roy, and Krampus (@Ferryman_VR) perform in a new show - Murder Ballads! It’s a fun show that we are excited to share - a live immersive dark ride in VRchat! Tix available at ferrymancollective.com

Open Online Theatre

@theatre_open

Jan 28

If you missed our hybrid performance festival #OOTFest22, you can now catch cutting edge performances and panel discussions focusing on the arts and tech, Web3 and online safety on demand. openonlinetheatre.org/season/watch-o #DigitalDance

OOTFest22 live meets digital digital meets live

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ALT

Interoperability in the Immersive Web - Part 2

Mozilla Hubs

@MozillaHubs

Jan 19

Part two of exploring how we can move content across applications and devices on the immersive web: hubs.mozilla.com/labs/interoper What aspects of social web spaces do you think are the most important for #Interoperability?

hubs.mozilla.com

In our first installment of Interoperability in the Immersive Web, we talked about the definition of interoperability, how various components of interoperability are being applied to the metaverse,...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Augmented Reality Obstacle Avoidance. After registeri...

XR Access

@XRAccess

Jan 25

Join us on Jan 31st for our next XR Access research seminar: Dylan Fox will be sharing his research at UC Berkeley on how Augmented Reality can support obstacle navigation for people with low vision. Register here: bit.ly/ARObstacleAvoi #a11y #AugmentedReality #accessibility

cornell.zoom.us

How can augmented reality amplify vision to support obstacle navigation in people with limited sight? Join XR Access Head of Community and Outreach Dylan Fox to learn about Augmented Reality Obstacle...

Frontiers in Virtual Reality

@FrontVR

Jan 24

New Research: Editorial: Virtual learning environments in educational institutions frontiersin.org/articles/10.33 #VirtualReality

frontiersin.org

Editorial: Virtual learning environments in educational institutions

In recent years, the popularization of virtual reality (VR) technology has made VR increasingly influential within various teaching and research settings. On one hand, the visual and audio effects of...

worlds can be ported to other places like

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as well with a bit of work! #altspacemigrations

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Jan 23

While we can celebrate the reasons to move forward into new 3D spaces, check out the unique work in

before #altspacesunset. Feel free to visit my world with 300+ Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Cyberpunk, and Psychedelic portals. RKW223 or account.altvr.com/worlds/1696547

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Jan 23

Replying to @jetscott

So many worlds unable to be archived. I knew it was happening soon, so I completed this world with over 300 portals to the work of amazing artists & builders in @AltspaceVR. 7 floors by theme - code RKW223 or account.altvr.com/worlds/1696547

Tilt Five

@tiltfive

Jan 22

Our new Tilt Five App Lab lets 👉YOU👈 share your Tilt Five creations with all our users. If you are working on a Tilt Five project or interested in porting over an existing title, let us know! view the current line-up of lab experiences HERE >>>> tiltfive.com/lab

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ALT

The one thing missing from UX today? Hope

Vivianne Castillo

@vcastillo630

Jan 22

1/Excited to share that

@hmntycntrd

will be a contributing writer to

@FastCompany

in 2023 and that our first piece went live today on one of my favorite topics: the designer’s relationship to hope💙

fastcompany.com

Vivianne Castillo argues that a designer’s relationship to hope has an outsized impact on their values, research, and practice.

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Jan 21

Now on in

closure info - News & Updates by Mark

@newsandupdates6

, a 4+ year weekly program with

@lorelleonwp

& presenters from the amazing group

@EducatorsVR

. Providing critical tips for AltspaceVR users to transition. Hearts of gratitude & community solidarity.

Artsy VR - Metaverse Architect | Artsy VR - Metaverse Architect

Jan 21

Additional thanks to Armani

@AC0793

for your work in the community and on this uplifting and informational call about the #AltspaceVR shutdown. From

@artsymarie1

to all ~ "We are together in this, representation in the metaverse is important"🌈 Support!

artsyvr.com

Step into a future of immersive social VR. Artsy in VR is a premier virtual reality architect creating the most beautiful properties and locations in the metaverse.

Jan 21

On the

closure-for those moving to

@VRChat

we have wonderful people helping. Thank you

@artsymarie1

for hosting a multi-hour training session today with incredible guest

@jokerispunk

to walk over 40 #VirtualReality world builders through the differences & challenges💎

Interoperability in the Metaverse

XRSI

@XRSIdotorg

Jan 19

“Interoperability & #Decentralization are key to an open, safe & inclusive Metaverse” notes our founder & CEO Kavya Pearlman, also contributor to

@wef

paper on ‘#Interoperability in the #Metaverse’ just launched at #Davos23

weforum.org

In May 2022, the World Economic Forum launched the Defining and Building the Metaverse Initiative. The initiative is divided into two workstreams: governance and economic and social value creation....

HC#36 Making digital worlds feel more human with Ultraleap CEO Tom Carter — Haptics Club

Haptics Club

@HapticsClub

Jan 16

Join us this week with special guest Tom Carter (

@iamtomcarter

) CEO of

@ultraleap

to talk about how to make digital worlds feel more human! Live Thursday, January 19 at 12:00pmEST 📅 RSVP

thehapticsclub.com

Haptics Club #36 features Tom Carter, the CEO Of Ultraleap

Spectra Cities

@spectracities

Jan 18

🕑Event: Tomorrow we're hosting the first of our weekly Spectra Tours on

@Spatial_io

hosted by one of Spectra's architects. RSVP below, and Join the event at 1pm EST / 7pm CET from the visitors-center channel on our Discord. VR not required to join! 🌇eventbrite.com/e/spectra-virt

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Microsoft announces big layoffs that will affect 10,000 employees

Tom Warren

@tomwarren

Jan 18

Microsoft's layoffs today have affected employees in the following divisions: • HoloLens • Microsoft Edge • marketing • 343 Industries • Bethesda

theverge.com

The job cuts will affect engineering, human resources, and other roles.

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Andreea Ion Cojocaru

@andreeavr

Jan 16

VR opens up fields like urbanism to new possibilities. Here are some we are pursuing

@spectracities

@ryrzny

: - How do you user test a city before building it? - How do you plan a city's AR activations from the start? - How do you involve new groups in the design process?

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CuddlySalmon | nptacek.eth

@nptacek

Jan 14

𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥𝘴 [text prompt --> immersive vr art, crafted with Stable Diffusion]

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Laura Loonstein

@lauraloonstein

Jan 13

mega excited to be techsperimenting with

@andybak

and

@openbrushapp

using the #MetaQuest controllers and my body as a virtual paintbrush. I couldn’t see the staff in VR so relied on proprioception. This is #FlowXR! #openbrush #tiltbrush #hybridperformance #circus🌀

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Andreea Ion Cojocaru

@andreeavr

Jan 13

Encountering new worlds is about traveling inside other minds. Architecture & worldbuilding are about the endless creative power of humans & their craving for expression & experience. Here's Nietzsche & Hugo on this:

Jan 11

On now:

@draxtor

discussing Roleplay in Virtual Worlds, can't wait to get the book by Pannie Paniscus! Link in thread: youtube.com/live/isFF-pXRl

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draxtor™

@draxtor

Jan 9

This Wednesday on the Second Life Book Club: “Learning to roleplay in Virtual Worlds” >>> absolutely fascinating topic. Great book. Showtime 12pm as usual.

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Ryan Rzepecki

@ryrzny

. twitter.com/spectracities/

I'm excited to announce the launch of Spectra, an open-source project to build cities for the future. After 18 months of quietly building, today we launch our website, VR scenes, and library of CC0 assets. The project was developed in partnership with

@andreeavr

and

@numenavr

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So to archive or preserve some shards of these places is an effort that takes time. How much time will be given? How much time would be a moral choice, if you had known the end date for many many months, but decided to just..stab it, harvest organs, and let it bleed out to die?

For the user-generated 3D content, once it's gone it's not that you can't visit that space any longer, like someone moved into your childhood home. It's the equivalent of those places being wiped away as though they never existed. The memories, and loss, are multi-dimensional.

Beyond current events, these are all real cases for the importance of interoperability of identity, "Metaverse" (sorry) platforms, why #WebXR is so crucial, and why we need avatars that can represent us when we need them to.

I would hope that anyone with enough responsibility would also understand the potential for deep psychological impacts to people who are (likely) about to lose their home, identity and safety. For many it would also be their means of income, and their entire social network.

Here's the thing. Free platforms will come and go. Non-paying customers aren't owed anything. Games get shut down eventually. Software gets outdated and too expensive to upgrade. Except for many 'users', social VR is not a game. It's the best place they can represent themselves.

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Replying to @wareFLO @VRChat and 15 others

You know I hate to say it, but if @Microsoft doesn't have enough money to keep the @AltspaceVR tech support ticket web page going, then this poll isn't necessary. I'm quite sure no one uphill is reading the sad, confused messages on their Discord or other groups. What a shame.

VR study shows virtual avatars and environments can affect your mood

Jan 3

I want to thank

@eugyhan

for coming to present the research she led at

@StanfordVR

, which was just discussed in this terrific article by

@deantak

. (More details on all the incredible #AWE2023 panelists to follow.)

venturebeat.com

Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. Your choice of virtual environments and avatars can promote positive psychological outcomes when...

Haptics End of the Year Round-up

Ashley Huffman

@ChickTech

Dec 29, 2022

All Things Haptics : Haptics End of the Year Round-up

haptics.substack.com

Dylan R. Fox

@UsabilityFox

Dec 30, 2022

We're putting together a community discussion for

@XRAccess

about the intersection of #haptics, #XR, and #accessibility. Who should be at the top of our list, Twitter hivemind? #VR #AR #VirtualReality #AugmentedReality #a11y

Cecilia Lascialfari

@Cecy6Dof

Dec 29, 2022

“XR Gloves, Haptics & Beyond” was one of the most interesting events that Antony Vitillo and I have organized among all the AWE Nite Florence (it was held on November 17th, 2022). Read the article: lnkd.in/dndbPw8B Go to directly to the video: lnkd.in/d7mzrEDS

AWE and 4 others

Teresa Kubacka

@paniterka_ch

Dec 5, 2022

Today I asked ChatGPT about the topic I wrote my PhD about. It produced reasonably sounding explanations and reasonably looking citations. So far so good – until I fact-checked the citations. And things got spooky when I asked about a physical phenomenon that doesn’t exist.

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Dec 28, 2022

Got Winter? Stay indoors & celebrate the fabulous community builders of

by checking out their work ~ head to my new tower with 300 portals to LARP-ready Sci-Fi & Adventure worlds! Code RKW223 account.altvr.com/worlds/1696547

Anders Fray

@AndersFray

Dec 26, 2022

Wow! Such a multifaceted and complex VR onboarding scenario that is a show with live music, multiple levels of audience participation, humor, and education. Brendan makes it all look so easy. Wonderful! twitter.com/brendanAbradle

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Wagner James Au

@slhamlet

Dec 21, 2022

Here's the cover of my upcoming book! After 19 years of writing about them, I've seen how metaverse platforms can transform lives for good & bad. And have stories to share for the next 20. Plz consider pre-ordering: Amazon: amazon.com/Making-Metaver B&N: barnesandnoble.com/w/making-a-met

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Dec 25, 2022

For those wishing to sing some carols, the first world in the video tour is open/public; lyrics are inside the lodge and you can fly up to the mountain top for your wings! #AltspaceVR code SUW825 (or) account.altvr.com/worlds/1614826

Dec 25, 2022

This is a fun and informative thread, I learned about several narrative concepts that may make their way into something new..

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The Strix

@the_strix

Dec 22, 2022

Okay story nerds, tell me your favorite narrative structures that are NOT three acts/five acts or the hero's journey. I dig kishōtenketsu, framing devices, serial mini beats!

Dec 24, 2022

A note that none of these worlds would be possible without engaged communities & generous builders. Thank you OptiC,

@CauseChristi

, Icewiz, Mason, Niko, ZMan, DW73, Luminosity, Comfyhoodie, Tetley, "R" Us, JorgeXO, and Mocha + Theme Park Archive. 👏