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❗BOOK RELEASE❗
My dissertation "Life in Virtual Reality" has been released at transcript publishing and is now available FOR FREE:
transcript-publishing.com/97…
It condenses almost a decade of my research on #VRChat and Social VR into 337 pages.
Have a look and please share! 📖👀
This Friday, I celebrate the book release of my doctoral thesis about everyday life in VRChat! I will give a short summary of the book, followed by music and dancing. Come by to listen to a lecture in VR followed by 4 DJ sets in a Cyberspace world!
vrc.tl/event/27158
I am thankful for everyone who shared their stories with me during these last years. Without my informants, this would not have been possible 🙏
A shoutout goes out to @AnselmZielonka for the cover! We reference 90s and early 2000s digital anthropology books with the visuals :)
I will post about my book a lot in the coming weeks, just a heads up :)
If anyone wants to get in touch with me about it, feel free to contact me via mail ([email protected]).
Content Creators are also welcome to reference or cover the book, of course!
We (Sociology of Digital Games Group) organized our first ever conference! Please share if you know someone who might be interested and/or lives close-by Mainz!
Wonderful essay written by @j_waligorski. Goes into hybrid embodiment which is imo the proper way embodiment of Social VR avatars can be understood. VR has always been a mixed reality, in a phenomenological sense.
pismowidok.org/en/archive/20…
I was asked by Friedrich Krotz a while back to investigate VRChat in the context of a digital utopia for merz journal.
So this is a text of mine (in German) that looks into that! Tried a more approachable writing style here, curious if it works 🤔
merz-zeitschrift.de/alle-aus…
Very good resource on early Social VR
ICYMI: I did a deep dive into the origin story of #VRChat in my @metaculturemag episode write-up with new information from co-founders @grahamgaylor and @JesseJoudrey on the very beginnings of their collaboration catalyzed by a @reverendkjr podcast episode
voicesofvr.com/1408-document…
ALT The very first VRChatrooms prototype demo by Graham Gaylor made during the HackVandy hackathon at Vanderbilt University March 29-31, 2013
ALT The very first VRChat group photo by u/Routb3d uploaded to Flickr on January 16, 2013
ALT email from Graham Gaylor to Jesse Joudrey sent on February 14, 2014
ALT response email from Jesse Joudrey to Graham Gaylore sent on March 5, 2014
interesting post with two perspectives in the replies. For the group in the "text me back in max 12 hours" camp, text messaging is almost interactional while the other group has a more asynchronous view of texting. Digital Divide in full affect 💢
Felix 'InterVR' Krell retweeted
Hundreds of people here for the Second Life 21st birthday gathering! That's tiny me sitting onstage.
Felix 'InterVR' Krell retweeted
Until Friday, July 12, we are conducting a qualitative survey to analyze the identity of social VR users under the hashtag #IdentityInMetaverse. The survey takes about 10-20 minutes to complete. Please participate and share! Nem x Mila
⏬Survey link⏬ forms.gle/YhuCD6Qcb9Ki16PJ8
To all my German or EU VR people - I am selling my whole FBT setup because of a move. If you are interested hit me up. I would go a bit lower in price for people in vrc. ONLY selling the whole package, just want to get rid of this setup stress free :)
kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/u…