🪐 Be part of the adventure! The BridgeMakers Firefly VR series, beginning 8/28 at 9PM ET, explores the ‘Verse with weekly talks & discussions in a custom VR world. Meet fellow fans, share theories, and relive the magic. Limited tickets—don’t miss out! #firefly #filmsky 🗣️: discord.gg/xX5M5D7ByX

(1/2) 🚀 Step aboard Serenity! Join host ScottScott @byskieboo.bsky.social in VRChat on 8/28 at 9PM ET for a 16-week Firefly deep dive with presentations, behind-the-scenes stories, and fan theories. Bring your headset and RSVP in Discord to join the crew. 🛸 #firefly #filmsky 🗣️: discord.gg/xX5M5D7ByX

Mental health days are essential for maintaining a better work-life balance, reducing burnout, and boosting well-being. How can you help balance your life by taking a mental health day? Read more: ferrygodmother.com/mental-healt... #MentalHealth #SelfCare #Anxiety #Depression #Stress #Therapy

Roller skating has arrived in virtual reality! The Ferry Godmother Roller Rink by Ferry Godmother Productions offers a virtual roller skating rink and more to enjoy in this new VR world. Read more: ferrygodmother.com?p=9331&previ... #skating #rollerskating #skate #skater #rollerskate #Community

My weekly cybersecurity newsletter is out, featuring stories on DOGE uploading the entire Social Security database to AWS, Salt Typhoon hacked 600+ companies globally, Salesloft's cyberattack affects all Drift customers, TransUnion's breach, and much more. Plus, good news, and a brand new cyber cat.

VR roller rink?? I’m in!

❤️‍🔥 Check out our students dancing Merengue! 🕺💃 youtube.com/shorts/zQiqB...

MotionBlocks remaps VR controls, enabling enjoyable gameplay for people with mobility challenges techxplore.com/news/2025-05... via @techxplore_com #VirtualReality #VR #accessibility

Recently @humanonpurpose.bsky.social had a chance to listen to community leaders about the challenges they face. Let's focus on context first. What drives you to lean in to the hard questions? 

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Join me in the chat during this @bridgemakers.bsky.social livestream on Monday as we explore @playpalia.com and what makes it so successful at fostering community building and collaboration! #communitymanagement #humancentricdesign #UX

We’ve a lot of great events in the pipeline, and as a way to include more devs, we’re hosting a #HarvardXR virtual pre-event for anyone interested in learning how AI and XR can enhance their existing apps/games. Showcase Horizon Worlds GenAI & Meta Quest Camera Access samples. #xr #developers

Sonya is a respected personality in VR & the first female player to qualify in the Oculus VR League National Championships in 2017. She's also a journalist & has written about VR sports, community, & accessibility; promotes positive, inclusive environments; & Head of Programming for AWE. #VR #AR

Trap Your Friends turns your home into an MR obstacle course for multiple local Quest users at once, and you can play it for free.

In case you missed some of the biggest XR news stories from the past week, The Tiny Brains Podcast has another episode to help catch you up! 🔗 youtu.be/Y8uC8nDrggg

RT @vrgamesshowcase: 🚨 TOMORROW 🚨 VR Games Showcase returns! With updates on: 🔫Hitman for PS VR2 🧍‍♂️ Slender: The Arrival VR 🥽Flat2VR Studios' newest games 🤫More surprises to come Live 24 hours from now (9am PT), right https://buff.ly/bPqnO3ChcKCdU https://t.co/3hTcAc2RiL

This was suuuuch a facinating session! We had a meaningful discussion and I feel like I learned a lot from each of the participants' opinions. It's wonderful to have such difficult conversations in a setting where everyone feels heard and respected. Highly recommend joining us in the future! 🤓

RSVP and join me and the other Bridgemakers tomorrow! ✨🤘🏽✨

🚨 5 DAYS UNTIL VR GAMES SHOWCASE 🚨 An epic celebration of VR gaming, March 11, 9am PT. Tune in for: 👨‍🦲 Gameplay for HITMAN 🤖 New trailer for ROBOQUEST VR 👻 Update on GHOST TOWN 🐔 New look at PRISON BOSS: PROHIBITION And MUCH more. Subscribe: buff.ly/6KdxOG7

All on Board! offers a fun platform to play board games in impeccably dressed virtual spaces, but it needs more time. Our review-in-progress:

On 2/26 at 8PM ET, we'll dive into the world of emotional connection through #music, exploring how we resonate together with songs in our Music HOP event. Join us on #Discord in appreciating sadness as this week's theme. 💙 #VRChat #VRCademicSky 🎶 📺: youtu.be/iWGL3mPE114?... 🗣️: discord.gg/82ZzAMup

(🧵8/8) TV Night Featuring "Sort Of": This is a show that beautifully explores the intersections of identity, culture, and belonging in today's world. The episodes are roughly 20 minutes long, and the discussion about 30 minutes long. Sundays, 9:30pm ET. #socialVR #VRChat #VirtualReality

(🧵7/8) Spectrum Street Epistemology: How does context change how we feel about things? This event is about finding answers to things we "think" we are right about playfully and purposefully, gaining perspectives that we've never thought about! Sundays, 4pm ET. #socialVR #VRChat #VirtualReality

(🧵1/8) Hey everyone, we have so many great events coming up that we need a thread to list them out for you! 🥳 Here they are, listed in calendar order from US Eastern Time (UTC−05:00), and you can join us on Discord to RSVP! #socialVR #VRChat #VirtualReality #VRCademicSky discord.gg/6wuXS9nHfV

*SQUEE!!* I’ve been waiting for this game for too long! 🤩 So close!! 🥹 Now to decide if I buy it for Quest or PSVR2 🤔 #metaquest #VR #gaming #PSVR2

🔁 🏠 🔁 🏠 🔁 🏠 🔁 🏠 🔁 Build the apartment and housing blocks of your dreams. With the Spring Cleaning update, you'll be able to rotate small houses and apartments in any direction you'd like! (and they'll have a visual indication if there's an empty spot to add a townie in!)

Saw on Mastodon that Firefox updated their "terms and use" yesterday and www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/... Per archive.org this isn't present in older (Feb 9) versions of the text. W…what *is* this? This is more like a clause you'd find on a website than a piece of software you run on your computer.

Abletop, a new series on tabletop accessibility launches next week by @caniplaythat.com caniplaythat.com/2025/02/14/a...

(2/2🧵) #BlackHistoryMonth Part 1: armanixr.substack.com/p/interview-... Part 2: armanixr.substack.com/p/interview-...

(1/2🧵) For #BlackHistoryMonth at the Parlour, we are excited to join @babybanshee.bsky.social to learn more from her journey through the years with avatar creation! #VirtualReality #Blacksky 💙🧡

Aaaand officially deactivated my X accounts. Yuck 🤢 Just can’t anymore. Hate that the mass exodus just contributes to social media becoming even more polarized though 😔

we convinced the CEOwl to join us again, this'll be fun! Friday, Feb 21st, 2pm Central twitch.tv/OwlchemyLabs

Exploring worlds in virtual reality can often allow an escape from physical reality. In our world HOP-ping group called Human on Purpose (HOP), we explore emotions within our physical bodies while exploring and resonating with virtual worlds that give off the same feelings. #VirtualReality #VRChat

Interested in building healthy VR communities? Check out the @bridgemakers.bsky.social! ✨😊🤝☺️✨

You get a Copilot button! And YOU get a Copilot button! EVERYONE gets a Copilot button! 🎉🙌😆✨ Hehehe, this one made me chuckle… and also a bit nostalgic of my Win 98 anime desktop theme making days 😌

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The next @vrgamesshowcase.bsky.social will take place in March, with even more VR and MR games than last year. mixed-news.com/en/vr-games-...

XR fans: @windupminds.bsky.social is shipping the spiritual successor to Bogo: Stay: Forever Home. If you love pet antics, puppies, kittens, Tamagotchi, spent hours trying to get Nintendogs to respond to names: I'd love your help by wishlisting our game! www.meta.com/experiences/...

DeepSeek has released a new set of multimodal AI models that it claims can outperform OpenAI’s DALL-E 3. The models are part of a new model family that DeepSeek is calling Janus-Pro. They range in size from 1 billion to 7 billion parameters. Read more here: tcrn.ch/40Bc5Qm

NEW VIDEO - I Tried Samsung's Secret Android XR Headset, and it was awesome. Think of it as the Nexus/Pixel of headsets. Coming later this year. Full video: youtu.be/az5QL_NLBvg

Looking forward to being an XR Women Special Guest and talking about Follow the White Rabbit and AI! Weds 8:45 AM PT / 11:45 AM ET. Register and "Request Admittance" on Engage. bit.ly/48AzAMg #XR #XRWomen #applevisionpro #apple #spatialcomputing #AR #vr #visionpro vision pro

👀 😍 Oooooo... Who else is adding Sushi Bin to their wishlist? #VR #steam #SushiBin #vrgaming #gaming #xr

I'm carrying out my annual survey of XR game developers, and I'm uncovering the disastrous impact of last year's changes in the Meta Horizon XR store on independent developers. I'll be sharing a lot on this in the coming weeks, so please keep an eye on my posts.

🎉 HUGE GIVEAWAY ALERT! 🎉 5 x SlimeVR Full-Body Tracking Sets are up for grabs! Take your #VR experience to the next level! 🕺💃 Enter now ⬇️ bit.ly/slimegiveaway Brought to you by SlimeVR, TUBE VR, and @TransAcademyVR. 💜 #VirtualReality #VRChat #Giveaway

✨📣✨ Meta Quest users! If you've got a few minutes of free time, help out UploadVR by filling out this super short and easy survey. 🤓

Last week, we made an appearance at the 2025 @xbox.com Developer_Direct, where members of our studio team shared more about the gameplay, look, and feel of South of Midnight. Watch our full segment: youtu.be/Op14jAJ6Yuc

Sorry, just lots of AI posts from me this week, but to be fair, it has been a pretty disruptive week. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti... (archive.ph/drCHB)

Good explanation of how DeepSeek R1 was trained. venturebeat.com/ai/deepseek-...

As Hazel, you'll use platforming—a mix of jumping, gliding, and weaving—to overcome the various obstacles found throughout your environment. #SouthofMidnight

I can’t wait to play #SouthofMidnight!! 🤩

The official ✨ Best of CES ✨ awards just dropped! 🥳 This year Mashable, PCMag, Lifehacker, CNET, and ZDNET joined forces to find the most noteworthy products. After hours of debate, here are the 12 best products and services from CES 2025. #CES2025 @ctatech.bsky.social mashable.com/article/best...