Science Metaverse Podcast

After a bit of a hiatus, the Science Metaverse podcast returns with a deep dive into Nanome v2.2, our most significant release yet, and the story of Dr Joe Laureanti, a former bench scientist whose postdoc nearly collapsed until VR turned things around. From distance measurements to real-time molecular collaboration, hear how v2.2 is transforming structural biology and drug discovery. Listen to pr...

Bigscreen Beyond: 127 Gram Visor, 2.6K Per Eye OLED VR Headset With SteamVR Tracking https://uploadvr.com/bigscreen-beyond-weight-specs/ Save GPU with Eye Tracked Foveated Rendering https://developer.oculus.com/blog/save-gpu-with-eye-tracked-foveated-rendering/ PSVR 2 review: love on a leash https://www.theverge.com/23601368/sony-playstation-ps-vr2-review-virtual-reality HairDAO becomes second Bio...

Meta Adds Direct Touch Menu Panels To Quest In v50 PTC Update https://uploadvr.com/meta-direct-touch-menu-quest-ptc/ LocalBitcoins closes down P2P crypto exchange service https://cointelegraph.com/news/localbitcoins-closes-down-the-p2p-crypto-exchange-service Crypto bank Silvergate ranks as the second most-shorted stock on Wall Street https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-bank-silvergate-ranks-as-...

Large language models generate functional protein sequences across diverse families https://twitter.com/jermdemo/status/1619214824185147392?s=46&t=BnRBgAZ-NwFelhA49dKknw Pfizer Invests $4.1 Million In Decentralized Science Organization VitaDAO Fundraising Round https://thedalesreport.com/trends/pfizer-invests-4-1-million-in-decentralized-science-organization-vitadao-fundraising-round/ Prisms V...

https://uploadvr.com/microsoft-kills-altspace/   https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-has-laid-off-entire-teams-behind-virtual-mixed-reality-and-hololens https://www.roadtovr.com/report-apple-mixed-reality-headset-specs/   https://www.playstation.com/en-us/ps-vr2/   https://uploadvr.com/meta-quest-pro-price-drop/ https://jcheminf.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13321-022-00664-x

https://www.science.org/content/article/fda-no-longer-needs-require-animal-tests-human-drug-trials https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2023/01/12/generative-ai-proteins-evozyne/ https://twitter.com/PDBeurope/status/1613121823452839936 https://seekingalpha.com/news/3924363-structure-therapeutics-formerly-known-as-shoutti-files-for-100m-us-ipo Special thanks to Wuxi AppTec SynBioBeta, LatchBio, and Vial f...

HTC Unveils Vive XR Elite, a Quest Pro Competitor Priced at $1,100 https://www.roadtovr.com/htc-vive-xr-elite-price-release-quest-pro-competitor-1100/ Ultra-Compact Shiftall MeganeX PC VR Headset Ships This Year For $1700 https://uploadvr.com/shiftalls-meganex-price-shipping/ Windows MR Usage Grows On Steam Following Deep HP Reverb G2 Discounts https://uploadvr.com/windows-mr-grows-reverb-g2-sales...

In this episode, we recap the Top Science Metaverse stories of 2022, and make bold predictions for what's to come for the science Metaverse in 2023

Tune in to see Application Scientists from Nanome discuss how drug design and discovery can be improved across teams using XR. From pocket characterization to docking, and more, teams from all over the world can still come together in the space through the power of XR tools Keita Funakawa COO Nanome Keita Funakawa is Nanome's COO. Keita’s passion lies at the intersection of emerging technolog...

How AI That Powers Chatbots and Search Queries Could Discover New Drugs https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-ai-that-powers-chatbots-and-search-queries-could-discover-new-drugs-11670428795 What to Know About Meta Quest’s v47 Software Update https://about.fb.com/news/2022/12/quest-v47-software-update/ Data Lake: DeSci the Future of Crypto after the FTX Fiasco? https://news.bitcoin.com/desci-the-future-...

Chat GPT https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/02/openais-chatgpt-shows-why-implementation-is-key-with-generative-ai/ The idea of a "metaverse" for science is an interesting one, but it's difficult to say exactly what it would be like without knowing more about the specific goals and objectives of such a project. In general, a metaverse for science could be a virtual world where scientists...

Simon's Twitter:  https://twitter.com/simonbennie https://twitter.com/SadlyItsBradley/status/1594967469634256898

Building Real-World AR Software and Hardware with Qualcomm https://nianticlabs.com/news/snapdragon-spaces Shopify Eye Tracking heatmap https://twitter.com/StrangeNative/status/1592554373519142913?t=wJ-jSQr25hvjDzkH-m-2sg&s=31 SBF/FTX https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/business/ftx-crypto-contagion-sbf.html

In this webinar, Dr. Seth Harris, Director of Computational Structural Biology & Senior Principal Scientist at Genentech, talks about GYST, the XR-integrated system developed by Genentech to efficiently manage large structural datasets.  At Genentech, the in-house GYST platform is used to explore annotated structural datasets and rapidly get insights from large amounts of structural informatio...

AlphaFold’s new rival? Meta AI predicts shape of 600 million proteins https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03539-1 PlayStation VR2 Release Date and Price Revealed https://www.ign.com/articles/playstation-vr2-release-date-and-price-revealed

This week we discuss our first impressions on actually using the Quest Pro!  More information about Nanome v1.24 and Quest Pro Launch of Nanome https://nanome.ai/blog/meta-quest-pro-and-a-new-version-of-nanome-(v1.24)

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221005005447/en/Thermo-Fisher-Scientific-Introduces-Decentralized-Clinical-Trials-Network https://uploadvr.com/pico-4-review-quest-2-comparison/

https://www.oculus.com/blog/meta-quest-pro-price-release-date/ https://nanome.ai/blog/meta-quest-pro-and-a-new-version-of-nanome-(v1.24)

New headset from Lenevo https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220928005325/en/?fbclid=IwAR2sCIwRiVSUFbT81s_kLKpo7DeQeiIT8nwHIIyVb8YqPnhBLrtLW43GBb0 Airbridge for Quest 2 https://uploadvr.com/vr-air-bridge-quest-2-announced/ For the second year in a row, a Scripps professor got the Nobel Prize! Go Scripps (no self-reference detected here :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:) https://twitter.com/scrip...

We are joined again by Dr. Asher Brandt, Professor of Biochemistry at the Saint Joseph University, Connecticut, specializing in psychedelic pharmacology. We discuss a recently published paper about how Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms, (SNPs, pronounced “snips”) might alter the pharmacological signaling of potentially therapeutic psychedelics. SNPs are the most common type of genetic variation amon...

Pico Neo 4: https://uploadvr.com/pico-4-release-october-18-price/ PSVR2 hands on + new trailer:  https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/14/23351946/playstation-vr-psvr-2-hands-on-impressions-horizon-call-of-the-mountain-sony Varjo raises $40M:  https://varjo.com/press-release/varjo-raises-40-million-series-d-funding-to-build-an-industrial-metaverse/?utm_campaign=Varjo%20Newsletters%202022&utm_medium=...

 we’re joined by Dr. Andrey Kovalevsky, Senior Scientist in Structural Biology & Biochemistry at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Andrey and his team used neutrons and x-rays to map part of the internal structure of the coronavirus to create an accurate 3-D model. Specifically, the scientists mapped the main protease (Mpro), an enzyme involved in the virus replication, to which they had added a...

VIVE Focus 3 gets Facial Tracker, and Eye Tracker https://blog.vive.com/us/vive-focus-3-gets-facial-tracker-and-eye-tracker/?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=social+media&utm_campaign=vive_focus_3_gets_facial_tracker_and_eye_tracker Meta Connect will be a virtual event starting on October 11, 2022 https://www.metaconnect.com/en-us Parsing natural speech and writing to specific commands by using...

Meta accounts - https://www.oculus.com/blog/getting-started-with-meta-accounts/ Sony says the PlayStation VR2 is coming in early 2023 - https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/22/23317342/sony-playstation-ps-vr2-release-date-early-2023 VDP-54.1 Expression of Interest: Pfizer Ventures  https://gov.vitadao.com/t/vdp-54-1-expression-of-interest-pfizer-ventures/832

Discngine Labs: Virtual Reality for Structure-Based Drug Discovery Ever wondered how Virtual Reality for Drug Design looks like in practice?   In the second session of our Discngine Labs, they host industry experts Wilian Cortopassi and Dr. Rishi Gupta from Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR) will present the “NIBR”Verse: the multidimensional space that brings together data and peer...