At Techsters Music’s demo day, music startups were the rockstars for their innovations in content, licensing, VR, AR, AI, and virtual influencers. Techstars Music held its fifth demo day – and second virtual demo day – via livestream exclusively on Rolling Stones’ Twitch channel on … Continued
Dreamscape VR reopens May 6 at Westfield Century City. It marks a much-awaited return to location based VR, after all VR venues have been shut down more than a year due to the pandemic. Dreamscape reopens with the four VR experiences … Continued
The VAX LIVE reopening concert witsafdadfadsfsdaf h the President, Prince, Pope and PEOPLE held at the new SoFi Stadium on Sunday May 2. Organizer Global Citizen announced raising more than $53M from supporting corporate and other sponsors for worldwide vaccination … Continued
Congrats digital winners at the Oscars including Netflix, Soul, Tenet and more. The 93rd Oscars was held in-person April 25 at Union Station in downtown LA, making the Academy Awards one of the only in-person events NOT cancelled by pandemic. … Continued
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival adapts to pandemic this year with two free nightly drive-in screens by the beach, and virtual panels featuring several Oscar-nominated filmmakers. DRIVE-IN THEATRES This year adds two pop-up drive-in screens at the Santa … Continued
Congrats digital winners D-Nice, Tabitha Brown, Soul and more at the all virtual 52nd NAACP Image Awards, broadcast on BET on Saturday March 27, 2021. The annual awards honors dozens of entertainers across film, TV/streaming, music, book, and other categories. More … Continued
Streaming studios dominated the first-ever all virtual Writers Guild Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in writing for film, television, new media, news, radio/audio, and promotional categories on March 21, 2021. Netflix won the most: 5 TV awards. The Crown won Drama. Bojack Horseman … Continued
LA OG Tech community builders discussed what attracted them to Clubhouse and what it must do to succeed in user acquisition, product development, creator monetization, safety and privacy, and more in a nearly 2-hour discussion on Clubhouse. Several of the … Continued
George Takei, the Star Wars sci-fi icon, author, and activist, headlines the honors today at Eagle-Con 2021, a virtual celebration of diversity in sci-fi and fantasy. FREE to register. Eagle-Con celebrates diversity and addresses accessibility, underrepresentation, and pushing boundaries in science fiction … Continued
Netflix, Soul, and streaming services won big at the first virtual Golden Globes on Feb 28, 2020. The first virtual show was televised and live streamed via NBC from two presenter-only locations this year: the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills which usually hosts, … Continued