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WritingProgress on publicist-mediaWritingProgress on Deez-Project-ManagerWritingProgress across 7 repositoriesNowActive focus on Distribution — sovereign publishing infrastructure and distributed agents under our own domain.WritingDevelopment IntroDistributionVenice Immersive — Official Selection 2024 — StrangewaysDistributionVenice Immersive — Official Selection 2021 — Spirit of Place, BlissDistributionVenice Best of VRChat — Mormoverse — Under The PillowDistributionEmmy Awards — Reeducated, ISS ExperienceDistributionWebby Awards — Oxymore — Jean Michel JarreDistributionSpirit of Raindance — BloodbathDistributionSpirit of Raindance — MyceliaDistributionLoeries — Gold & Silver — Life of Confidence, Made In The CapeDistributionIAB Bookmarks — Made In The Cape MarketDistributionMona — Monaverse competitionDistributionVenice Immersive (2026) — Live in VRChat · 35,000+ visitorsDistributionVenice Immersive (2025) — Live in VRChat · 45,000+ visitorsDistributionThe Cradle of Humankind (2025) — iOS & Android · UNESCO siteDistributionEmilyGPT (2024) — iOS App Store #1DevSite config — YAML-driven layout and theme from Obsidian vault
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Venice Immersive (2025)

Updated 13 July 2026CC-BY-4.0
Immersion

Venice Immersive is the VR/AR strand of the Venice International Film Festival — the oldest film festival in the world. In 2025 Worldbuild built the official VRChat Worlds Gallery with Mike "Manglebird" Salmon and festival curators Liz Rosenthal and Michel Reilhac (MetaVerse Crew constellation). More than 45,000 visitors entered to reach competition works and a Best of VRChat selection.

Role

VR worldbuilding and production for the social-VR venue layer: wayfinding, featured works, and a public place that survives peak load. This continues the 2024 venue commission — same festival, same problem class, higher traffic.

What it tests

A festival booth is a claim. A social-VR gallery is a city: capacity, orientation, accessibility, and a record people can return to after the physical Lido closes. Curation without a shared map fails; beauty without room limits fails harder. See venice-immersive-field-notes for the operational lessons.

Press and platform coverage — UploadVR, Voices of VR, Film Verdict, VRChat's own channels — only matter if the world ID still opens.

Verify

  • Launch in VRChat
  • World info
  • UploadVR tour
  • Voices of VR — selection sneak peek

Related: Expeditions, venice-immersive-2026, strangeways, Immersion.

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