This morning I did something I had never done before: I presented at an Ethereum meetup in virtual reality.

You may skeptical, but I think I saw the future. And not just because VR is supposedly a “futuristic” type thing. The event seemed to genuinely fill a niche that I don’t think anything else does.

Here’s what happened, why I think there will be more VR meetups, and how you can join the next one.

First, some details

The event was called ETHVR0, organized by Luis Bezzenberger. He used Kickback for RSVPing (coordinated by Kickback co-founder and ENS dev Makoto Inoue) and hosted the meetup with the VR program Altspace.

And about 30 people came! Which was just about everyone who RSVPed (so we didn’t get a very big “kickback”) plus a few people who just dropped in.

Why was the event numbered 0? Because Luis and a few other people did a test event a week ago they called ETHVR-1 (as in “negative one”) in which Makoto presented about Kickback.

The event today was the first “real” event to which he invited a lot of people and for which he got several presentations. He still numbered it “0”, he later told me, in honor of the “first” Devcon being labeled as Devcon0. In hindsight, however, he said maybe the test should have been labeled 0 and the one today labeled as 1. But oh well!

Here’s a video of the whole event:

When presentations start in the video:

I gave an overview of the goals of ENS, how it’s developing, and what you can do with it today. All the presentations were great, so you should definitely check out the video both to learn about cool blockchain projects and to see what the event was like.