VR Neighborhood News

Tom Nickel
7 min readApr 28, 2020

Monday, April 27, 2020

Ten in the morning pacific time is convenient for many people in North and South America and also catches western Europe, the Middle East and Africa in various parts of the evening.

It’s been a great time slot for hearing real news from a lot of the world.

VR has a few amazing superpowers, and one is making up worlds whenever you want one. Suppose you want to have an event, any event. A party, a game night, a serious discussion. What setting would you like it in? What would be perfect for that event? You can make it. Chances are you wouldn’t need to, There are plenty of great worlds waiting around to be booked for your event right now.

I wanted to host a local news show so I could hear what is actually happening from lots of places and lots of people. I figured, from their side, people would really want to talk to others now, to express what they’re feeling and what they’re seeing around them. I was right about that.

AltspaceVR has a world all ready to go with two podiums and auditorium style seating for an audience. People arrive and get what to do immediately. Lots of people have probably wanted to make some kind of local report and this is their chance.

Today was our fifth week holding the Neighborhood News.

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Tom Nickel

Learning Technologist focusing on VR, Video, and Mortality … producer of Less Than One Minute and 360 degree videos