🏰 Castle of KYSS — Revolutionizing the Publishing Industry by Bringing Authors and Their Fans Together

We helped Rowohlt Verlag’s romance imprint KYSS bring the world of Romance Fiction to life in virtual reality by building their own immersive space: the Castle of KYSS.

Hosted in the popular metaverse platform VRChat, the Castle of KYSS is a multi-room social experience that invites fans to explore their favorite genres, books, and authors while connecting with each other.

The castle has already hosted its first live author event featuring Marie Niehoff, and will continue to hold regular gatherings that bring the KYSS community together in unforgettable, story-filled ways.

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Vivaldi sweeps up at the 5th Annual Polys Immersive Awards!

Well this was pretty incredible and unexpected… The Vivaldi 3.0 app we recently developed won Education Experience of the Year, Entertainment Experience of the Year, and Experience of the Year at the Polys Immersive Awards, and was even featured in Forbes! Amazing! What a lovely gift from our community for this beautiful passion project between ourselves, Andy Fidel, and director Carlos J. Ochoa.

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NCXR

NCXR

We recently helped co-found NCXR — which you can pronounce “Nicer” because we aim to be very nice! NCXR is here to foster the community of people in North Carolina working in XR (Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality in its many forms).

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Tech Celebs Cleo Abram & MKBHD Beam Into Our 3D World for a Volumetric Collaboration!

Acclaimed tech YouTubers, Cleo Abram (@CleoAbram) and Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD), recently embarked on a unique volumetric journey together, teleporting into one of our bespoke 3D worlds!

Cleo Abram is a video journalist specializing in tech explainers and hosts the series Huge If True.
Tech guru Cleo Abram hosts the insightful series, Huge If True, where she unpacks tech complexities.
Marques Brownlee aka MKBHD creates quality tech videos & hosts the podcast Waveform.
Renowned for his polished tech review videos and engaging podcast Waveform, Marques Brownlee, a.k.a. MKBHD, explores the digital frontier.

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Cause + Christi explore the expo hall and see friends at AWE 2023

AWE 2023 Pt. 2: What We Saw in the Expo Hall with Friends!

In addition to getting on stage for our panel Meet The Makers and the Auggie Awards (see more in our AWE 2023 Pt. 1 post here ), we also had a great time reconnecting with friends from the XR industry and exploring the expo hall! In the expo hall, we tried out the Lenovo Thinkreality VRX headset, Varjo XR3, HTC Vive XR Elite, Magic Leap 2, the BHaptics suit, and did an interview with Maxwell McGee for the Virtual World Society podcast!

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