We are happy to bring our group meditations to another corner of the metaverse! While Altspace has felt like home for a long time, we are excited to now be hosting weekly events in Horizon Worlds, as well as Engage VR. We’ve been enjoying meeting new people, serving on fun new platforms, and playing with […]
Can you tell a little about your first VR experience? My first VR experience was actually in EvolVR. It was in a Mindfulness Monday Meditation with Keoki. I actually had just gotten my headset a couple days before and was hesitating using it. It was so not my thing!!! I had gotten a headset because […]
It’s official! TRIPP has acquired EvolVR! EvolVR is set to be the sangha, or live community — the social side — of TRIPP. Read more in this Tech Crunch article or attend live Q&A events today (Feb 3 5PM PT / 8PM PT) or tomorrow (Feb 4 10AM PT / 1PM ET / 6PM UK) to […]
Can you tell a little about your first VR experience? I have been drawn to new media technologies my whole so-called career and in 1986 my wife and I went a little insane and started a business selling PC-based imaging systems, a field still dominated by minicomputers at that time. As a small-time player in […]
This post has previously been published by Tom Nickel on Medium. *** We’ve got grief all wrong. Its different faces are showing now, distinguished in part by how long grief remains a dominant presence. In recognition, a new category has been created in the expanding system of mental health disorders called Prolonged Bereavement, recognizing that grieving […]
Can you tell a little about your first VR experience? Definitely. A coworker brought his VR rig to the office. I put it on and was instantly shooting arrows at some little attackers in some tower defense game. I was utterly and completely IN it. No training. No tutorial. Just started shooting arrows. It wasn’t […]
[the original, shorter edition of this piece was posted here] OTHER-WORLDLY My hands move to the pulse of the music, and make the sparkles hanging in the air swirl and spin, leaving streaks of glittering colours all around us. I look over at my friend Clara dancing next to me, her fairy wings gracefully flapping […]
Can you tell a little about your first VR experience? My first VR experience was over two years ago. My arthritis issues were getting worse and worse – I couldn’t leave my apartment without going down a flight of stairs. So I was stuck inside quite a lot. I couldn’t go out easily anymore. It […]
The tech world is buzzing with a new way to be a social creature in the modern world — a way that transcends any previous attempt to connect people remotely and digitally. This new possibility finally offers what live social platforms — from early chat rooms to current zoom calls — fall short to recreate: […]
Can you tell a little about your first VR experience? The first time I put my head set on, and entered not even the VR world but just the setting up of the headset, I was blown away. I knew I was going to enter something that would engage my senses, especially sight, in a […]