References

Books

Hyper-Reality: The Art of Designing Impossible Experiences, Curtis Hickman, 2023

The Aesthetics of Virtual Reality, Grant Tavinor, 2022

The Metaverse And How it Will Revolutionize Everything, Matthew Ball, 2022

The Metaverse: A Professional Guide : An expert's guide to virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and immersive technologies, Tom Ffiske, 2022

Virtual Aesthetics in Architecture: Designing in Mixed Realities, Sara Eloy, Anette Kreutzberg, Ioanna Symeonidou, 2022

From Object to Experience: The New Culture of Architectural Design, Harry Francis Mallgrave, 2018

The Aesthetics of Atmospheres, Gernot Böhme, Jean-Paul Thibaud, 2017

When Is the Digital in Architecture?, Andrew Goodhouse, 2017

Selected Conversations about Virtual Architecture

Architecture of the Immersive Internet, AA School of Architecture, 2019, Video
49:55 - 1:17:31  Andreea Ion Cojocaru: #Perception #Phenomenology #Reality
4:09:28 - 4:22:26  Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg: #Value #Manifesto #Communication
5:55:23 - 5:58:56  Andreea Ion Cojocaru: #Value #Economics #Ecosystem
6:12:32 - 6:15:20  Lara Lesmes and Paula Strunden: #Purpose #Interaction #Control
7:21:30 - 7:23:06  Kent Bye: #Perception #Consciousness #Experience


Why The Architecture Of Virtual Spaces Matters, UploadVR, 2021, Video
0:18 - 5:57  Andreea Ion Cojocaru: #Constrains #Gravity #Function
5:57 - 10:34  #Skeuomorphism #Subjectivity #Transition
23:04 - 28:01  #Expression #Avatar #Home #Personality  

Who am I? I am the space, Singularity Watch, 2021, Video
0:21 - 6:50  Andreea Ion Cojocaru: #Image #Representation #Gravity
20:42 - 26:40  #Privacy #Embodyment
28:28 - 32:33  #Identity #Singularity #Subjectivity


Immersive Architectural Tour of the Museum of Other Realities, 2020, Video

Half Life Alyx's Immersive Architecture & Experiential Design, 2020, Video

Selected Positions about VR / Metaverse

Space Popular, Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg, Website
Ten Propositions for Virtual Architecture, 2018, Website
Distant Crowds, Report on Virtual Gatherings 2022/21, Website

Numena, Andreea Ion Cojocaru, Website Mirror, mirror on the wall... Spatial Tech Beyond Simulation, 2022, Video
Top 10: The Crazy Things I Said (about VR & Architecture) in 2021, Video

NFA Lab, Bence Pap, Website
Towards a Parallel Architecture, 2022, Website

Voices of VR Podcast, Ken Bye, Audio & Video
A Primer on Presence, Immersive Storytelling, & Experiential Design, 2022, Video
Retrospective on the Ultimate Potential of Virtual Reality, Audio

Anthony Masure, Website
Metaverse: A Use Case Failure?, 2022, Audio & PDF

Joakim Vindenes, Website
VR & Philosophy: Kent Bye, 2021, Video
VR & Philosophy: Kai Reaver, 2020, Video

Ryan Schultz, Website
A Comprehensive List of Social VR/AR Platforms and Virtual Worlds, 2023, Website

Meta
3:15:49 - 3:44:12  John Carmack: #Metaverse #Interaction #Value, 2022, Video

11:58 -  20:06  John Carmack: #Home #Mirror #Screensharing, 2022, Video
25:39 - 36:10  Mark Zuckerberg: #Avatar #Identity #Self #NFT, 2022, Video

Immersive & Spatial Entertainment, Laetitia Bochud, 2024, Video
Echoes of the Jellyfish, Mélodie Mousset, 2023, Video
Defining The Metaverse Today, Cathy Hackl, 2021, Article
The Metaverse is coming, Bobby Elliott, 2021, Article
How Virtual Reality Became a Reality, ThrillSeeker, 2020, Video
Metaverse, The Upcoming Realm of Architects, Sheida Shakeri, 2022, Article History Of Virtual Reality, Virtual Reality Societ, 2017, Article

Selected World Builders & Creators

Fins, VRChat Worlds
Complex 7 / District Roboto, 2023, Interview

EstyOctober, TwitterX, VRChat Worlds
Beyond a bit, 2023, Article

DrMorro, VRChat Worlds
Organism, 2022, Walkthough Video

Kevin Mack, Website
Namuanki, 2022, Website & Walkthough Video & Interview

Ali Eslam, Website
False Mirror, 2022,  Website  & Walkthough Video

VRChat Worlds, Website, Worlds on VRChat(Beta)
Ship in Clouds  by Siromori (PC)
Steps of the Campanula  by EstyOctober (Quest, PC)
Trees Of Diaspora  by EstyOctober (Quest, PC)
Breezing in the epilogue by EstyOctober (Quest, PC)
Twisted Forest  by EstyOctober (Quest, PC)
Timeless  by ecochin (PC)
Desolation Epic Burn  by deaconline (PC)
Bliss in the Ear of a Storm  by Wondering Chew (PC)
AudioOrbs  by Kilerbomb (PC)
Isolated Area -MEMORIES  by Atto (PC)
Hollow Lake［VRAA01］  by Leiria_vrc (PC)
sun shower shrine ˸ sanctuary  by tiwa (PC)
Vacuous Park  by phi16 (PC)
Home Of Dreams  by ImLeXz (PC)
Third Impact  by Siromori (PC)
Solitude  by Mochie (PC)
Just Rain  by kden (PC)
Organism  by DrMorro (PC)
Namuanki  by Kevin Mack (PC)
Lost It  by Mochie (PC)
The Edge  by Mochie (PC)
Fractal Explorer by 1001  by 1001 (PC)
Fractal Love  by pema99 (PC)
Dice Dimension  by FlyingFly (PC)
District Roboto  by Fins (PC)
Adrift  by M E R C (Quest, PC)
FireTornado  by BigChickenLover (Quest, PC)
Psychedelic Trance˸ An AVATAR Inspired Art World  by zandyxr (Quest, PC)
Zandy's Party World  by zandyxr (Quest, PC)
The Opal Cave ∗2022∗  by zandyxr (Quest, PC)

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Projects published to Community Labs by Atelier Simon Husslein via VRChat user headvr1:
TheOtherHome1  by Ilena Escher (Quest, PC)
TheOtherHome2  by Paul Rigal (Quest, PC)
TheOtherHome3  by Yaroslav Dubeniuk ＆ Anna Smiian (Quest, PC)
TheOtherHome4  by Elisa Torres Ferreira‚ Clara Faure ＆ Mélanie Affolter (Quest, PC)
TheOtherHome5  by Stéphanie Pereira Sacramento (Quest, PC)
TheOtherHome6  by Fanny Tauxe ＆ Luna Clertan (Quest, PC)
TheOtherHome7  by Lou Tissot ＆ Lea Gruaz (Quest, PC)
TheOtherHome8  by Dylan Braun ＆ Melissa Bitto (Quest, PC)
TheOtherHome9 by Minna Compoint & Elena Llosas (Quest, PC)

Community
Metaverse Crew (MVC), Twitter, Discord
Mike Salmon/Manglebird, 2022, Interview
Fionna / Jen Davis-Wilson, Website

VR Apps & Experiences

Experiences
VRChat (Quest, PC) 
Goliath (Quest) 
Modules (Quest)

Cosmic Flow (Quest, PC) 
Museum of Other Realities (PC) 
Half-Life: Alyx (PC) > also see this Video 
PatchWorld (Quest)  
Half + Half (Quest) 
noda (Quest, PC) 
(m)orph (Quest)

Creation
Gravity Sketch (Quest, PC) 
Arkio (Quest, PC) 
Figmin XR (Quest)  
ShapesXR (Quest)  
shapelab (PC) 
Sketchfab (Browser)

Films

Ulterior Motives: A VRChat Short Film, 2023, Youtube

We Met in Virtual Reality, 2022, IMDb
40:36 - 43:30  Scout, MooseStash, DylanP: #Avatar #Representation

Ready Player One, 2018, IMDb

Platforms

XRMust, Website
Everything Immersive, Website
Road to VR, Website
UploadVR, Website
VRScout, Website
Parametric Architecture, Website

References by guests

Barry Gene Murphy, VR Things to Watch, 2023
Experiences:
Battlescar
In pursuit of Repetitive Beats
From the Main Square
Eurydice, A Descent into Infinity
Vestige
On the Morning you Wake till the end of the World
Chocolate, Tyler Durdon
Darkening, Ondřej Moravec
The Under Presents
Down the Rabbit Hole
End of Night, 2021
Glimpse, 2021
Travelling While Black
Where Thoughts Go
MLK: Now is the Time
Gloomy Eyes
The Key
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360 Documentaries:
Notes on Blindness
Step to the Line
Tearless, 2021
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Games:
Half Life Alyx
Hyperdash
The Lab
Lucid Trips
4D-Toys
I Expect You To Die Series
Gods of Gravity
Half and Half
The Last Clockwinder
The World Beyond sampler
PatchWorld
Tea for God
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Artists using code:
Leon Denis 
Mirza Beig 
Keijiro Takahashi / Keijiro on github for Unity  Diana Rico




Kai Reaver: Critical VR / AR / Digital Media Projects, 2021
Jon Rafman, “Nada”
Cado Fei, “Trade Eden”
Nick Cave, “Soundsuits”
Nick Cave, “Until”
Sarah Rothberg, “Swift Playgrounds”
Carsten Holler, “Through”
Jordan Wolfson, “Real Violence”
Hito Steyerl, “Actual Reality”
Hito Steyerl, “Power Plants”
Hito Steyerl, “Factory of the Sun” second video
Ian Cheng, “Baby Feat”
Ian Cheng, “Emissary Forks”
Steegmann Mangrané, “Phantom”
Pipilotti Rist, “Pixel Forest”
Pipilotti Rist, “International Liquid Finger Prayer”
Pipilotti Rist, “Widewalls”
Oskar Schlemmer, “Triadic Ballet”
Pierre Huyghe, “Two Minutes Out of Time”
Paul McCarthy, “Mary and Eve”
Multiple, “Museum of other realities”
Edmond Porter, “Coney Island”
Minority Report, interface
Matsuda, “Hyper Reality”
Ryoji Ikeda, The Transfinite
Ryoji Ikeda, Data verse
Ooni, Roger Ballen, “Ballenesque”
Ooni, ”The Collective”
Ooni, “Malick Sidibé: The Eye of Modern Mali”
Ooni, Juo-Hsin Chen, “We Dwell Below”
Ooni, “Giphy World VR”
Ooni, “Museum of GIF Art”