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At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic as we were all locked away in our homes wondering when we might ever socialize again, many found refuge in a brand new world of virtual connectivity and creativity through an obscure little app known as AltspaceVR. It is here that Christi and I would begin our incredible journey into XR design and creating immersive experiences. Altspace was our home for over three years, allowing us to find community and connection that will continue to surpass time (zones) and (physical) space. Thank you all for making so many memories with us! Now our journey continues…

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AltspaceVR is now gone. It is no more. It ceases to be. Monty Python references aside, we both decided to attend the final moments of the platform, as apparently did many others. In fact, we had not seen that many friends and connections logged on simultaneously since the heyday of the first BRCvr during a time when everyone was essentially locked down and could ONLY be online. A true testament to the love and devotion we all had to our favorite VR platform.

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Not in one fell swoop sadly. However the time saved on producing a quite beautiful low poly game artifact was substantial indeed! I set out earlier to create a panel of buttons for the interior of an elevator. Seems simple enough but then you begin researching styles across Google Images and there’s just too many to choose! Oh what to do?? “Save me, Midjourney!”

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Cause + Christi out in the wild… We went to “that thing in the desert”!

It was only a couple of weeks before thousands would gather to co-create the physical Black Rock City, when we got the call: “so we have this new project and we need a hand… can you make it to Burning Man this year?”

Before we knew it, we were on a plane headed west.

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After participating in Briar Prestidge’s “48 Hours in the Metaverse” documentary challenge, where we took her on a tour of our various worlds in VR, Briar invited us to chat with her on her new podcast series, Hyperscale!

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We worked with author Helen Lundström Erwin to build out the café depicted in her historic novel, Sour Milk in Sheep’s Wool. Throughout the build process, we sent pictures back and forth with Helen and met up with her in VR to review details. She wanted to accurately capture the historical details – and so did we!

This post is about the behind-the-scenes design process.

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There is something intrinsically special about experiences that are situated within a spatial context. Whether it’s a group meetup, training simulation, or simply a journey to find creative inspiration, having a sense of spatial presence gives our minds more contextual cues to reference and draw upon later- making it easier to retrieve memories from our experiences.

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We are finally back home and rested enough to begin recounting our recent adventure across the country to the 2021 Augmented World Expo in San Jose, California. However before we get into stories from the expo itself I really wanted to share this story from our initial trip out there. We had a little situation happen which might give you a good chuckle!

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