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Creator Jam Winter Holiday Party, Amadepolis VR Opera Concert, Neos Festa 2

Hello everyone and welcome to another weekly update!

This week we have some major community highlights and announcements for you. The Creator Jam is putting together a Winter Holiday party with gift exchange on December 20, details are below if you’d like to participate.

This Saturday also saw two notable events. The content creator festival “Neos Festa” by the Japanese community has officially opened with many amazing exhibits and we saw the first opera concert held in Neos, featuring the Amadeus Artists from Vienna. If you missed the live streams you can check it out below!



[h2]Creator Jam Winter Holiday party[/h2]
The weekly community-held Creator Jam is planning a holiday party later this December with a gift exchange. If you’d like to join in, check out the official announcement:

Originally posted by Medra
Hello everyone!
The holidays are almost upon us ...so it's time for:
Creator Jam's Winter Holiday Party #2

Sunday, December 20
Starts at 2PM EST(UTC 19:00).

Come hang out at our yearly Winter party exchanging gifts, dressing up, and enjoying each other's company.

There will be a gift exchange held at 2:30PM EST(UTC 19:30).
Anyone that brings a gift can participate in the gift exchange.

Have a gift but don't want to participate, feel free to give gifts to specific people or everyone :)

Everyone is welcome.

I look forward to seeing all!

Here are some photos from the last year's event!

(also this doesn't lag as much anymore thanks to the audio system optimizations!)

[h2]Amadepolis VR Opera Concert[/h2]
Saturday also saw another notable event, an unprecedented concert with opera singers, presented digitally through Neos VR to a live remote audience. This event combined mixed reality capture of the opera singers with thematic virtual environments.

The event was viewed by a live audience in Neos VR as well as streamed live on YouTube. If you missed it, you can watch the recording below, it’s definitely worth a watch, including some of the afterparty.

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This is an amazing achievement by everyone involved and not only a way to bring art to the audience safely during the pandemic, but to also expand it with virtual elements that wouldn’t be possible in real life.

Here are the official credits for the artists and the production team that put this whole experience together:

[h3]Live Moderation:[/h3]
Neivi Martinez

[h3]The Artists:[/h3]
Penelope Kendros - Soprano
Laura Olivia Spengel - Mezzosoprano
Cornelia Sonnleithner . Contralto
Neivi Martinez - Soprano
Timothy Jon Sarris - Tenor

[h3]The Accompanists:[/h3]
Elisa Mazorati
Alice Chang
Byron Zuang Yue
Evgeni Ganev

[h3]Production Team:[/h3]
Sid R. Sittner - Art Director and VR Expert
Konrad Gill - Co-Production und VR Expert
Neivi Martinez - Executive Producer & Artist Management

[h3]Special Thanks:[/h3]
Niederösterreich 3D - Monuments of Amadeus & Beethoven
Marcin Lubecki - 3D Anfitheater
Outallectuals -Intro/Outro Theme - Afterparty Music
Rite of Community by Potzman - Rites of Calling- Download under: https://outtallectuals.bandcamp.com/album/rites-of-calling-ep-outta055

The event was realized in cooperation with Amadeus Artists Vienna, ViARsys and Neos The Metaverse.

[h2]Neos Festa 2[/h2]
This Saturday the Japanese community has opened the second Content Creator Festival dubbed “Neos Festa”. You can now visit the world in Neos and check out all the amazing submissions both by the Japanese and international community, with each submission taking the form of a booth.

In the world you can find a stylish UI both in Japanese and English, which allows you to open individual booths as well as filter them by category, provide descriptions and links to authors' websites or Tip Jar and of course opening the booth itself.



You can have multiple booths open at once, but the system will automatically close them as you go, keeping the system resource usage low and the world running smoothly. The world’s architecture was designed by GONT_3 and komashiba, with LogiX and UIX by orange and rhenium and logo by coreless. The project is also utilizing the 3rd party Neos .js API client by Bitman.



We recommend visiting the world and checking out all the submissions yourself, ranging from cool worlds, item exhibitions, gadgets, utilities and even playable games. If you missed the opening event, you can watch the recording here:

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You can also follow the event on Twitter under the #NeosFesta hashtag.

We’re very happy to see more events like this, celebrating the creativity and freedom of expression in Neos VR across the international communities.



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This his all for this weekly update. Thank you everyone for reading and big thanks to everyone for your creativity and hard work making all of these amazing events happen in Neos! See you the next week with more Neos news.