Spatial Networks — January 2022 news, events & creator features

Latest about Social VR/AR in the Metaverse

image credit: Linden Lab

Welcome to the new year!
Ongoing list of media, events, featured worlds & experiences 😎👇

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⚡ The MetaMovie presents: Alien Rescue

Cutting-edge VR technology meets the excitement of a live performance. You don’t watch this movie, you live it! As you journey through this vast, cinematic VR adventure, you’ll be joined by supporting characters played by live actors. Together with fifteen other role-playing audience members, your entire cast will embark on a revolutionary shared storytelling experience.
— get tickets: The Metamovie
January 15th to March 15th

image credit: The Metamovie

⚡ 10 days left to submit your immersive experiences &narrative works to FIVARS — Festival of International Virtual & Augmented Reality Stories in FEB 2022!

FIVARS is a browser-based immersive virtual festival featuring 360 video projects from around the globe online February 21st through the 28th 2022 with additional private in-person showcases for interactive content.

• Immersive festival featuring Virtual Reality, 360 Film and Dome Experiences in browser-based immersive theater — available on desktop, mobile, tablet or in VR headset
• In-person interactive content
• Talks & Panels with creators and industry experts from around the world

— submit to FIVARS // tickets to Festival
January 25th

Image credit: FIVARS

⚡ Philip Rosedale Re-Joins Second Life

The creator of one of the earliest and most enduringly iconic virtual worlds is returning to his roots. Second Life’s founder Philip Rosedale will rejoin the company he founded in 1999 as a strategic advisor after High Fidelity, the spatial audio company Rosedale co-founded in 2013, invested in Second Life’s developer Linden Lab.
—read more: Techcrunch by Taylor Hatmake

image credit: IEEE Spectrum & Rolling Stone

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2022 will be the biggest year for the metaverse so far

Wilder World: A Brief Introduction

The metaverse is a second chance to right the wrongs of social media. Here's how

Reflections on a five-year journey into and through the Metaverse

How Brands Can Enter the Metaverse

XR in 2021 — A Challenging Year in Review

Decentraland Set to Host Metaverse Fashion Week - NFT Plazas

Blue sky ideas: old avatars never die, they only soldier on

Avatar Creation Tool ‘Ready Player Me’ Raises $13M to Provide Metaverse-wide Avatars

Immersive Web Weekly: Issue #076, January 04, 2022

Why Diversity and Inclusivity in Virtual Influencers Matter

Why 2022 could be the year to create your avatar and join the metaverse

Come the Metaverse, Can Privacy Exist?

The Sandbox Announces Multiple Hong Kong Partnerships to Create Mega City in the Metaverse

How to Explain the ‘Metaverse’ to Your Grandparents

Second Life founder returns to revamp his original metaverse

Top three Metaverse platforms in 2022. And no, it doesn't include Facebook

Watch: Metaverse Experiment Creates "Portals" from NeosVR to Anyland to Mozilla Hubs to Gorilla Tag

Inside the metaverse economy, jobs and infrastructure projects are becoming real

How to Use Ready Player Me to Create a VR Avatar for the Metaverse

Roblox: All you need to know about the online gaming platform and creation system

How gamification will impact the future of shopping

The Metaverse's Effects on Mental Health: Trivial or Troubling?

Bill Gates Is All in on Metaverse Office Space

AmazeVR gets another $15M to forge the future of immersive concerts

NEXT: Beyond the Metaverse Virtual Conference-A Free, Daylong Event Hosted by Lethbridge College…

Fortnite's latest virtual event is a simple - yet important - art gallery

How gaming created the language of the metaverse

Sensorium Galaxy Makes a Major Step Towards Public Launch, Reveals New Content and Plans for…

'Who's to say it's not real?' Street artist Kaws on creating Fortnite's first exhibition

Looking back at 2021 and what's next for Ready Player Me

For meta, for verse: couple plan Potter-themed wedding in virtual reality

Toledo Museum enters the metaverse with its 'Doppelganger' experience

Virtual real estate in the metaverse? There's a burgeoning market for that

How the metaverse, blockchain and NFTs are radically changing entertainment

Meta Visually Unifies Avatars Across Quest, Facebook & Instagram in Metaverse Push

Roblox says artists can "sustain successful careers virtually" without playing real-world gigs

Roblox's year-end data reveals its metaverse advantage

'We Met in Virtual Reality' finds love in the metaverse

Soundscape VR welcomes Evanescence & Griz into its VR-based music experience line-up

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• January 15th — Official Reddit AMA with Rec Room
  Ask any question in this Reddit thread. There are no topics that are off-limits, but please keep it constructive/polite/civil. And remember this is the Rec Room subreddit, so we should mainly talk about Rec Room!
• January 15th — RecMakers Void Party (Rec Room)
  First live stream of 2022 may just be this weekend with live DJ.
• January 15th-March 19th — Alien Rescue Performance (NeosVR)
  You don’t watch this movie, you live it! As you journey through this vast, cinematic VR adventure, you’ll be joined by supporting characters played by live actors. Together with fifteen other role-playing audience members, your entire cast will embark on a revolutionary shared storytelling experience.
• January 16th — IMPROV SHOW with GobloxVR (VRChat)
• January 21–22nd — OXYMORE
  JEAN MICHEL JARRE in homage to Pierre Henry (VRChat)
  An immersive concert which will be simultaneously played at the Hyper Weekend Festival’s first edition @Maison de la Radio in Paris in multicanal format, and on VRChat in 6DoF binaural format, in an effort to bridge the gap between the real and virtual worlds.
• January 23rd — VRistmas Carol (Vircadia)
  Come see your Metaverse friends in an irreverent look at the hx.
• January 25th — Deadline to submit your immersive experience metaverse project xr vr ar narrative work to FIVARS, Festival of International Virtual & Augmented Reality Stories (Mozilla Hubs)
  FIVARS is the world’s leading festival dedicated to discovering the world’s best new content made for VR, AR, and other immersive media.
  (FEB 21–28)

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