Bigscreen Beyond: 127 Gram Visor, 2.6K Per Eye OLED VR Headset With SteamVR Trackinghttps://uploadvr.com/bigscreen-beyond-weight-specs/Save GPU with Eye Tracked Foveated Renderinghttps://developer.oculus.com/blog/save-gpu-with-eye-tracked-foveated-rendering/PSVR 2 review: love on a leashhttps://www.theverge.com/23601368/sony-playstation-ps-vr2-review-virtual-realityHairDAO becomes second BioDAO to mint an IP-NFT.https://twitter.com/HairDAO_/status/1626282930094895107Apple Delays Debut of AR/VR Headset Until Junehttps://www.macrumors.com/2023/02/15/apple-ar-vr-headset-launch-june/Massively Improved Multi-node NVIDIA GPU Scalability with GROMACShttps://developer.nvidia.com/blog/massively-improved-multi-node-nvidia-gpu-scalability-with-gromacs/

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

Large language models generate functional protein sequences across diverse familieshttps://twitter.com/jermdemo/status/1619214824185147392?s=46&t=BnRBgAZ-NwFelhA49dKknwPfizer Invests $4.1 Million In Decentralized Science Organization VitaDAO Fundraising Roundhttps://thedalesreport.com/trends/pfizer-invests-4-1-million-in-decentralized-science-organization-vitadao-fundraising-round/Prisms VR raises $12.5M to improve math literacy with virtual realityhttps://venturebeat.com/games/prisms-vr-raises-12-5m-to-improve-math-literacy-with-virtual-reality/Meta is inexplicably shutting down one of the best Oculus gameshttps://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23580356/meta-shut-down-echo-vr-oculus-quest-arena-ready-at-downRumor: HP will finish VR related production by the end of the yearhttps://twitter.com/SadlyItsBradley/status/1620729001152237569?s=20&t=4LKuZnzOtX9tXp4LfGoETQ

https://uploadvr.com/microsoft-kills-altspace/ https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-has-laid-off-entire-teams-behind-virtual-mixed-reality-and-hololenshttps://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-trialshttps://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2023/01/12/generative-ai-proteins-evozyne/https://twitter.com/PDBeurope/status/1613121823452839936https://seekingalpha.com/news/3924363-structure-therapeutics-formerly-known-as-shoutti-files-for-100m-us-ipoSpecial thanks to Wuxi AppTec SynBioBeta, LatchBio, and Vial for their JPM events!

HTC Unveils Vive XR Elite, a Quest Pro Competitor Priced at $1,100https://www.roadtovr.com/htc-vive-xr-elite-price-release-quest-pro-competitor-1100/Ultra-Compact Shiftall MeganeX PC VR Headset Ships This Year For $1700https://uploadvr.com/shiftalls-meganex-price-shipping/Windows MR Usage Grows On Steam Following Deep HP Reverb G2 Discountshttps://uploadvr.com/windows-mr-grows-reverb-g2-sales/CES 2023: Razer Reveals Quest 2 Head Strap & Facial Interfacehttps://uploadvr.com/razer-meta-quest-2-vr-accessories/Drug Manufacturing Has One Huge Flaw. This Synthetic Biology Startup Just Raised $200 Million To Fix It.https://www.forbes.com/sites/johncumbers/2023/01/05/drug-manufacture-has-one-huge-flaw-this-synthetic-biology-startup-just-raised-200m-to-fix-it/?sh=635c8caf89edBankruptcy judge rules that Earn account assets belong to Celsiushttps://www.axios.com/2023/01/04/celsius-bankruptcy-earn-accounts

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 toolsKeita FunakawaCOONanomeKeita Funakawa is Nanome's COO. Keita’s passion lies at the intersection of emerging technologies, digital arts, and science. He graduated from UC San Diego with a B.S. in Management Science (Quantitative Economics) and a minor in Visual Arts Digital Media. He co-founded Nanome in 2015 and now leads company operations.Mike BishopDrug Discovery ConsultantNanomeMike Bishop started Bishop Drug Discovery Consulting in 2019 after 26 years as a medicinal chemist with GSK. From 2001 to 2014 he directed a department of medicinal chemists and DMPK scientists with a focus on metabolic diseases, identifying ~10 clinical development candidates. From 2014 to 2019, Mike served as a Director in GSK’s Discovery Partnerships with Academia (DPAc) unit, with responsibilities for thorough vetting of research opportunities across multiple therapeutic areas, building collaborative workplans and leading joint research programs with academic investigators. Mike earned a B.A. in chemistry from Rice University in Houston, TX, worked in the petrochemical industry with Amoco Chemical in Texas City, TX for two years, and then returned to Rice, earning a Ph.D. in organic chemistry under the guidance of Dr. Marco Ciufolini.Jonathon GastSenior Application ScientistNanomeJonathon Gast has a background in pharmacology, informatics, and medicinal chemistry. He completed his Ph.D. in molecular pharmacology at Purdue University with a focus on the creation of informatic approaches for the determination of mechanisms of action of synthetic lethal combinations. As an applications scientist at Nanome, he communicates with customers to understand their research objectives to create novel solutions through Nanome. This includes the creation of customized software, on-site training, or online demonstrations.

How AI That Powers Chatbots and Search Queries Could Discover New Drugshttps://www.wsj.com/articles/how-ai-that-powers-chatbots-and-search-queries-could-discover-new-drugs-11670428795What to Know About Meta Quest’s v47 Software Updatehttps://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-of-crypto-after-the-ftx-fiasco/

Chat GPThttps://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 and researchers from various disciplines could come together to collaborate, share ideas, and conduct experiments. This virtual world could include realistic simulations of physical phenomena, as well as virtual tools and instruments that scientists could use to explore and analyze data. It could also include virtual meeting spaces where scientists could hold discussions and presentations, as well as virtual labs where they could conduct experiments and simulations. Ultimately, the design and functionality of a metaverse for science would depend on the specific needs and goals of the scientific community.Sony Full body tracking https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/30/23485732/sony-mocopi-motion-capture-metaverse-vr-avatar-announcement-priceIntroducing the Meta Avatars Storehttps://about.fb.com/news/2022/06/introducing-the-meta-avatars-store/

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

Building Real-World AR Software and Hardware with Qualcommhttps://nianticlabs.com/news/snapdragon-spacesShopify Eye Tracking heatmaphttps://twitter.com/StrangeNative/status/1592554373519142913?t=wJ-jSQr25hvjDzkH-m-2sg&s=31SBF/FTXhttps://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 information.GYST integrates Nanome in its systems and allows researchers to access information, and manipulate and visualize data in the immersive virtual reality environment. During the webinar, Dr. Harris will go over the collaboration between scientists at Genentech and the Nanome team that led to the creation of customized GYST plugins.Highlights:- Large-scale data extracts and annotations of structural features can accelerate drug discovery and research- Our in-house platform GYST creates such datasets and enables their exploration by a broad range of researchers, while also provisioning information for machine-learning models- Custom plugins enable seamless integration of Nanome as a visualization and analytical component in this system

AlphaFold’s new rival? Meta AI predicts shape of 600 million proteinshttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03539-1PlayStation VR2 Release Date and Price Revealedhttps://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 Nanomehttps://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-Networkhttps://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_kLKpo7DeQeiIT8nwHIIyVb8YqPnhBLrtLW43GBb0Airbridge for Quest 2https://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/scrippsresearch/status/1577650210838306817Varjo offers its Aero VR headset at GameStophttps://venturebeat.com/games/varjo-offers-its-aero-vr-headset-at-gamestop/Crypto companies can’t avoid legal liability by forming a DAOhttps://qz.com/crypto-companies-can-t-avoid-legal-liability-by-forming-1849590766

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 among people. Specifically, it’s a genomic variant at a single base position in the DNA, which can lead to a single point amino acid mutation in the subsequently synthesized protein.In the study, the authors examined whether sequence variations in the 5-HT2A receptor gene affect the signaling of some of the most used psychedelic drugs such as LSD, mescalin, psilocybin. They examined the in vitro pharmacology of seven non-synonymous SNPs, which give rise to a variant of 5-HT2A serotonin receptors. What they found is that these non-synonymous SNPs exert statistically significant effects on not just the the efficacy but also the potency of four therapeutically relevant psychedelics.What’s mind blowing, in our opinion, is that the in vitro pharmacological effects of the SNP drug actions at 5-HT2A receptor are both amino acid and drug specific.References:Schmitz et al. (2022). 5-HT2A SNPs Alter the Pharmacological Signaling of Potentially Therapeutic Psychedelics. ACS Chem. Neurosci. 2022, 13, 16, 2386–2398.NCBI SNPs Database (dbSNP) url: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/snp/

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-sonyVarjo 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=email&_hsmi=64059872&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--f74a1c5n7pwbhjvMw048ACNgbGnCcXleku688P7uQMlcZFACxZ5ez3N5aBSqZTr50vPfmDgaXdsuA8bYUCA_CLFurhQ&utm_content=64059872&utm_source=hs_emailThe merge! https://fortune.com/crypto/2022/09/21/inside-look-behind-the-scenes-ethereum-merge/