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Founder, Worldbuild.io
South African XR director, worldbuilder, and experiential technologist. For over a decade I've run the software development life cycle (SDLC) for companies around the world, from strategy to maintenance: scoping, milestones and costs, clear communication, testing and distribution.
Tools change every week. Platforms compete for every minute of attention. The future starts to feel like something done to us. The singularity is here. No one knows what tomorrow brings. Automation hums all around us, more and more. Take away the emails, the notifications, the swiping, the alerts, the meetings, the spreadsheets, and what's left in its wake is pure human experience. The act of being. Of enjoying. Of flow.
Worldbuild.io stands for presence. For beauty. For the fleeting elegance of the moment.
Worldbuild specialises in the directing, producing, and distributing of experiential media: work you step into, not scroll past.
Three answers to one question — understand, move, keep control.
Every brief starts with someone stuck somewhere. Underneath each one is a belief about what the work is for.
Heritage
A fossil behind glass is a fact. The same fossil at your feet, in the cave where it was found, is a lesson you keep. We take sites that are far, fragile or underground to the phone in your pocket.
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Experiential marketing
People forget the message by the next stand. They remember where they were standing when it hit them. So we turn a product into a place, and the brand into the memory.
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Art
An idea about time, grief or freedom becomes a world you walk through. You feel it before you can name it, and that is the point.
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Gathering
Most people who want to see the programme can't fly to Venice. We build the festival's online venue in social VR, so they can visit from home, and it stays open after the festival closes.
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Awards, expeditions, worlds, and the people we made them with.
VRChat
44,583 favoritesVRChat visits and favorites across worlds we built — including collabs listed on other creators’ accounts.
119kMormoVerse: Under the Pillowcollab / GeorgyMolodtsov
86kSTRANGEWAYScollab / WonderingChew52kVenice Immersive 2025collab / VeniceImmersive
52kVenice Immersive 2024collab / VeniceImmersive
41kVenice Immersive 2026collab / VeniceImmersive30kThe Grovedeaconline29kThe Meadowdeaconline21kMidnight Meadowdeaconline13kTraindeaconline13kThe Surreality Studiodeaconline13kLakeside Retreatdeaconline9.1kgoEast 2023deaconline12kMormoVerse: Under the Pillowcollab / GeorgyMolodtsov10.0kSTRANGEWAYScollab / WonderingChew3.6kVenice Immersive 2025collab / VeniceImmersive3.2kVenice Immersive 2024collab / VeniceImmersive3.2kVenice Immersive 2026collab / VeniceImmersive3.1kThe Grovedeaconline1.8kMidnight Meadowdeaconline1.8kThe Meadowdeaconline841The Surreality Studiodeaconline747Moonlit Grovedeaconline619Traindeaconline509Lakeside RetreatdeaconlineFeatured work first, then every project since 2021 — who we built with, the medium, and what was recognised.
iOS & Android · UNESCO site
UNESCO heritage audiences needed maps, media, and outdoor AR without headset demos. We shipped the official Gauteng app for iOS and Android so visitors explore the Cradle on the phones they already carry.
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Quest 3 & 3S prototype · 2026
The Owl House in Nieu-Bethesda is losing visitors and its sculptures are wearing out. Glass Angels puts you inside it at night with a lantern, lighting 59 candles. A Meta Quest prototype written and directed by Jason Mollink, funded by the Gauteng Film Commission.
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Live VR theatre · 9–11 Oct 2026
Ferryman Collective and Shtik XR needed a live VR theatre stage. Tanvi Agrawal's play runs inside Strangeways, with a small VRChat house and a YouTube stream for everyone else.
Visit →Official venue · 3 editions · 145,000+ VRChat visits
The oldest film festival in the world needed a social-VR venue audiences could navigate at scale. Three consecutive years, we built the official VRChat Worlds Gallery for Venice Immersive with MetaVerse Crew curators — through the section's tenth anniversary at the 83rd Venice Film Festival.
Visit →Silver Loerie · 3× Gold IAB Bookmarks
Sanlam needed its idea of financial confidence to feel like a place, not a brochure. With Black Ginger and King James Group / Accenture Song we built the environment art and world for its metaverse launch in Unreal.
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Gold IAB Bookmark · 3× Bronze Loeries
Wesgro needed Western Cape exporters to stand out at the V&A Waterfront. With Accenture Song we layered AR, audio, and visuals onto a real market so shoppers met the products both in person and in AR.
Visit →Raindance Best Immersive Narrative · Venice Best of Worlds
Film XR needed a family story world that worked in social VR. With Georgy Molodtsov we led worldbuilding and production on Mormitten's nightly hunt for lost treasures inside an old couch.
Visit →| Year | Project | Collaborator | Our role | Honors / laurels | More |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 |  2021Venice VR Expanded previewsUnity
| Empire of Dirt / Felix & Paul / Darkfield / Glimpse | production |
| More about Venice VR Expanded previews |
| 2024 | 2024StrangewaysUnity
| Shtik XR / Chris Bianchi | production |
| More about Strangeways |
| 2021 |  2021Bliss In The Ear Of The StormUnity
| Shtik / Adam Lieber | production |
| More about Bliss In The Ear Of The Storm |
| 2021 |  2021Spirit of PlaceUnity
| Venice VR Expanded / Danheim | direction · production |
| More about Spirit of Place |
| 2023 | 2023Mormoverse: Under The PillowUnity
| Film XR / Georgy Molodtsov | production |
| More about Mormoverse: Under The Pillow |
| 2022 |  2022OxymoreUnity
| VRROOM / Jean-Michel Jarre | production |
| More about Oxymore |
| 2023 | 2023Life of ConfidenceUnreal
| Sanlam / Black Ginger / Accenture Song | production |
| More about Life of Confidence |
| 2023 | 2023Made in the Cape MarketWeb
| Wesgro / Accenture Song | production |
| More about Made in the Cape Market |
| 2022 |  2022BloodbathUnity
| goEast / Tim Voronkin | production |
| More about Bloodbath |
| 2021 |  2021MyceliaUnity
| Nanotopia / MetaVerse Crew | production |
| More about Mycelia |
| 2024 |  2024DOLLHOUSE for Queer ImaginariesUnity
| Queer.Space / Electric South | production |
| More about DOLLHOUSE for Queer Imaginaries |
| 2022 |  2022FVRM for AbsaUnreal
| Lumico / Absa | production |
| More about FVRM for Absa |
Shipped work you can install, enter, or clone today. Each box opens its project page; the links underneath go to the store.
Cradle of Humankind
EmilyGPT
Origins AR
GorillAR
Glass Angels
Strangeways
Venice Immersive 2026
Open Releases
What we are working on now.
A few milestones along the way.
2021Venice VR ExpandedSpirit of Place, in competition
2021Red Sea Film FestivalThe VRChat worlds for Red Sea Immersive
2022Africa XR ReportMapping VR and AR across 20 African countries
2023The LoeriesSilver for Sanlam's LI:FE of Confidence
2023Raindance ImmersiveBest Immersive Narrative for Mormoverse
2024Voices of VRTalking Strangeways with Kent Bye2024The LoeriesThree Bronzes for the Made in the Cape Market2024App StoreEmilyGPT, number 1 in Paid Entertainment2024–26Venice ImmersiveThe festival's official VRChat gallery
2025UNESCO World Heritage SiteThe Cradle of Humankind visitor appEssays, new use cases, and GitHub activity, newest first.
Obsidian
A PEST check on where things stand. Young people are checking out, horror is booming, AI is proving theorems and undercutting the professions, the AI stocks may or may not be a bubble, a war has choked off a fifth of the world's oil, and politics keeps the 99% fighting each other. Plus Steam VR, smart glasses and robots.
Obsidian
Learn how to check hardware, build delivery, testing, documentation and review rounds before approving a fixed-price XR prototype.
GitHub
Explore major 2026 math breakthroughs — Astra ten + landmarks, plain language, demos.
Obsidian
Learn to write a focused test script, recruit five representative users and collect evidence for a clear continue, change or stop decision.
Obsidian
Learn to build an XR business case using comparable evidence, testable assumptions and clear thresholds for deciding whether to continue.
Where we are going, and how to collaborate with us.
Research & Development across Directing, Producing, and Distributing.
If anyone can automate the creation of solutions, the real work is asking the right questions. Scoping a project, managing milestones and costs, communicating clearly, testing thoroughly and distributing widely matter more now than ever.
Automation gives us the opportunity to rediscover conscious experience through experiential and immersive storytelling, art, and philosophy.
Exploring identity, and our relationship with environment.
// Your move
Tell us what you want people to feel. Message us directly, or scope the project yourself first. It's free.
