This Wednesday, you can fill up your brain with knowledge in a unique opportunity to meet Bill Nye ‘the Science Guy’ in the digital flesh, and then melt your brain immediately afterwards at a VR concert, where crowds can interact with mind-expanding 3D objects while experiencing music from digital musician GRIMECRAFT like never before.

Bill Nye in AltspaceVR

image courtesy AltspaceVR

Where: AltspaceVR

When: July 12 @ 2:30pm PT (your timezone)

How: Login or create an AltspaceVR account, then RSVP here. AltspaceVR supports cross-play between Google Daydream, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Gear VR and traditional monitors.

What: This is your chance to meet Bill Nye ‘the Science Guy’, TV personality and engineer, in AltspaceVR. Get a chance to win a signed copy of Bill Nye’s book, Everything All at Once by RSVP’ing and attending the show.

GRIMECRAFT Show in TheWaveVR

Where: TheWaveVR

When: July 12 @ 7:00pm PT (your timezone)

How: Download TheWaveVR on Steam (US-residents only)

What: With his gaming-inspired tunes, digital musician GRIMECRAFT will present new songs at a crowd-interactive, audio-visual show that’s aiming to push the boundaries of the concert format using the medium of VR. The platform’s creators have built “powerful tools to create this content and represent artists’ music and aesthetic in new ways through these shows,” CEO Adam Arrigo told us.

This will be TheWaveVR’s second show after putting on NFOLD, an audio-visual spectacle only possible in VR which featured LA-based digital artist Strangeloop in association with the label BRAINFEEDER. (check out the video below)

“In the coming weeks, you’ll see us releasing content that is incredibly varied and specific to that artist. We want each show to feel like a portal into that artist’s world- to have unique visuals and interactions that couldn’t be possible outside VR,” Arrigo told us.

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Well before the first modern XR products hit the market, Scott recognized the potential of the technology and set out to understand and document its growth. He has been professionally reporting on the space for nearly a decade as Editor at Road to VR, authoring more than 3,500 articles on the topic. Scott brings that seasoned insight to his reporting from major industry events across the globe.
  • Alexander Schick

    Hi, the “to your timezone” link for the wave is wrong, its the same as the first one and brings up 2:30 rather than 7.

  • Toby Zuijdveld

    “Events Worth Attending”
    >Bill Nye
    Incorrect.

  • Kim Brown

    I’d rather not meet Bill Nye the not so science science guy. Esp in VR where I am sure I will end up punching my wall by accident.

  • Kris Bunch

    That was disapointing. Maybe they should of provided a tutorial for Bill before they started. He spent the first 10 minutes just figuring it out. The audio was horrible as well. It did get me to use AltspaceVR. Which I had not before. I will have to go explore that platform. It has some potential.

  • Fear Monkey

    Bill Nye the annoying actor science guy, no thanks.