I’m laid up with extreme neck and shoulder ache, off sick from work as we speak once more, mendacity on the couch and running a blog by way of iPad, my neck propped up on an excellent pillow. Along with visits to my household physician and my physiotherapist (who additionally does acupuncture), I’ve began seeing a therapeutic massage therapist. I had a one-hour therapeutic massage session Friday morning, and felt fantastic afterward—solely to have rebound neck and shoulder aches and pains which scuppered my Friday evening plans and put me in a foul, cranky temper all weekend.
That is all coming at a time after I must be effectively sufficient to attend a metaverse convention developing this week! It’s the IMMERSIVE X Convention, organized and run from Berlin, Germany, however with occasions happening in varied social VR platforms and flatscreen digital worlds. As a substitute of getting on a aircraft to go to a bodily convention in meatspace, I simply placed on a VR headset and attend in our on-line world!
Nevertheless, my bodily ache as we speak doesn’t bode effectively for my metaverse excursions on Tuesday (Remembrance Day right here in Canada, if not in Germany), Wednesday, and Thursday. Want me effectively! I’m most likely going to must take breaks between periods to pop painkillers, apply chilly and warmth packs, and do my prescribed physiotherapy workouts to get by this. However come hell or excessive water, I am going!!
I began making ready for the convention final week, revisiting some social VR platforms that I had not visited in lots of months, and ensuring that I may nonetheless bear in mind easy methods to log in and transfer round in my Vive Professional 2 PCVR setup in my workplace (sadly uncared for since I started my well-documented love affair with my Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional).
I need to admit that I used to be stunned after I signed into my VRChat account on their web site, to find that I first joined VRChat 8 years in the past! (You could find all my blogposts about VRChat right here.)
And likewise, I had first joined ENGAGE in July of 2018, which suggests I’ve been utilizing the metaverse platform for over seven years at this level! (You could find all my blogposts about ENGAGE right here.) I’m particularly excited that the organizers had been capable of squeeze me into Andy Fidel’s keynote State of the Metaverse presentation in ENGAGE (a giant thanks Thomas Zorbach and his staff!).
Along with VRChat and ENGAGE, I signed up for periods being held on three different metaverse platforms: Spatial, Foretell Actuality, and Hubs. I’ve been in Spatial and (previously Mozilla) Hubs earlier than, however Foretell Actuality is new to me.
So I hope to have the ability to submit my session notes to the weblog, beginning tomorrow. And, within the meantime, I’ll relaxation, take painkillers, do my physiotherapy workouts, and pray my physique holds up. Keep tuned!
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