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William Chyr @chyr.bsky.social · Jul 25

Excited to announce "Hotel Infinity", a game where you explore a mysterious hotel in roomscale #VR

It's a follow-up to Manifold Garden and builds on a lot of the same ideas (portals, impossible spaces, etc)

Launching in 2025 for #PSVR2 and #MetaQuest3

hotelinfinityvr.com

#indiegames #vrgaming

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Helen L @thehellers.bsky.social · Jul 27

#Vket Formula .3879 (2/2 posts). Also some weapons and avatars. The cyber industrial vibe of this Vket world was cool. Nice contrast to the organic feel of the others. #VR #digitalart

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Helen L @thehellers.bsky.social · Jul 27

#Vket Formula .3879 (1/2 posts). This market world seemed mostly devoted modes of transport, mostly cars and car related assets. Most of us have driven some sort of car in #VRChat, some of us follow racing worlds or racing maps with different degrees of realism. #VR #digitalart

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Helen L @thehellers.bsky.social · Jul 26

#Vket Hypothetical Garden Exoplant (2/2 posts). Particularly pretty straw hat assets you can buy on Booth.pm, booth with albums on display with accompanying music videos, and an avatar that looks like a cross between a statue and a robot. #VR #VRChat

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Helen L @thehellers.bsky.social · Jul 26

#Vket Hypothetical Garden Exoplant (1/2 posts). This market world is an ornate dream garden of the imagination. Like in the other worlds, some interesting #VRChat -specific assets: developers that build VR communities w/ XP systems and Discord bots. Also, housing and other environment assets 🤩 #VR

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Helen L @thehellers.bsky.social · Jul 26

#Vket AlterVista Midnight worlds (2/2 posts). ... and VR live shows from #FailedtoRender + VR films from Studio Penrose Films. Also in a booth was #SlimeVR Tracker for full body tracking. These products/events are examples of experiences that #VR brings that can only be had in the medium. #VRChat

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Helen L @thehellers.bsky.social · Jul 26

#Vket AlterVista Midnight worlds (1/2 posts). This world is a giant futuristic mall where you can find lots of unique avatars and assets. Most interesting to me were the things unique to VR - #metamory is an app for storing and viewing #VRChat photos... #VR #digitalart

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Helen L @thehellers.bsky.social · Jul 25

#Vket Anomalous Research Lab worlds (2/2 posts). More interesting assets for sale: cool shader wings, avatar tech (military and magical..?), camera assets that can stream footage from inside a virtual world. And maybe the scariest avatar at Vket👹. #VR #VRChat #digital

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Helen L @thehellers.bsky.social · Jul 25

#Vket Anomalous Research Lab worlds (1/2 posts). Cool worldbuilding in this exhibition space. A shady org dedicated to research on "anomalous entities." Suspicious looking co-workers. But also assets like avatars + video players for purchase. #VR #VRChat

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Helen L @thehellers.bsky.social · Jul 25

Love the playfulness of the Tea Party Rebake worlds at #Vket. Baked goods. An Earl Grey river. Avatars and shaders for sale. Also, links to streamers and ambassadors - good way to experience all the features the market worlds if you can make it into VRChat yourself. #VR #VRChat

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Helen L @thehellers.bsky.social · Jul 24

Digital assets and avatars for sale in the #Vket world Morihoji Street Yapopueto. The world itself is beautiful... you wander through the autumn mist to come upon a village in the deep woods. The designer #Dangotaso did a great job. #VR #VRChat #digitalart #avatar

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Helen L @thehellers.bsky.social · Jul 23

Parareal #Hawaii in #Vket 2025. What I noticed about this world is the IRL connections and exclusive merch. Links offsite to Amazon where you u can get Vket collab merch, and to IRL Japanese cities. Compare this to the Vket of old that was focused on digital assets from indie creators. #VR #VRChat

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Helen L @thehellers.bsky.social · Jul 22

Parareal #Tokyo 🤩 Vket's parareal worlds are strange + wonderful. Maybe they're worlds that could've been or will be. Virtual versions of real places overlaid with #Vket booths and IRL businesses. Interact with some assets and you can find a real place to visit. #VR #VRChat #3D

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Helen L @thehellers.bsky.social · Jul 15

Vket avatars on full display in one of the Pixelica worlds😍 #VRChat #virtualreality #digitalart #avatars

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Helen L @thehellers.bsky.social · Jul 14

Well, well, well... it's that time of the year again! VKet Summer 2025 started on VRChat this weekend and will run for 2 weeks. Parareal worlds + digital artists + real world vendors... every year the market grows in leap and bounds. Excited to see what's new. #VRChat #virtualreality #Vket #digital

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TimeWave Studio @timewavestudio.bsky.social · Jun 28

When Virtual Reality Makes Time Fly (and When It Doesn’t)

VR may only “compress” time in larger virtual environments.
#xr #vr #mr #ar #virtualworlds

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/illu...

When Virtual Reality Makes Time Fly (and When It Doesn’t)

A replication and extension of a 2021 study, “Time Compression in Virtual Reality,” shows a more complicated relationship between virtual reality and time perception.

www.psychologytoday.com

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Helen L @thehellers.bsky.social · Apr 16

Just rewatched #TheFall by #Tarsem. It's a singular experience. An epic fable that plays out in the most scenic places you can imagine. Filmed in ~20 countries. Widely known for its sheer beauty, the film tells an archetypal myth of life, death, and rebirth. #storytelling #worldbuilding #myth

https://www.firstshowing.net/2008/the-many-colors-of-tarsem-singhs-the-fall/

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Helen L @thehellers.bsky.social · Apr 12

#Oblige (2017). There's a fine line between a cozy game and one that portrays life's mundanity. Oblige has a story that focuses on the understated dramas that make up daily life. It's somehow mundane and dramatic at once. A quiet magic. #indiedev #gamedev #storytelling

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Kathryn Yu @kathrynyu.com · Apr 9

#Immersive art and entertainment experiences can fail for a number of reasons, often intertwined: a bad business model, misconceptions of the experience by the public, an unexpected rent hike, poor execution of an idea, loss of a project's internal champion, and much, much more.

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Helen L @thehellers.bsky.social · Apr 10

The #Dreams (1990) of #Kurosawa. Recurring dreams are powerful. They're connected to the deepest dramas playing out in our psyches and to the collective unconscious. They're both familiar and foreign. A portal key to the soul. #surreal #storytelling #film #worldbuilding

Source: https://www.yokogaomag.com/editorial/akira-kurosawa-dreams

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Helen L @thehellers.bsky.social · Apr 9

Our caveman brain gets it. #Primal has no dialogue for its first season and minimal dialogue after that. Sound + color + image create a universal emotional landscape. Our one original instinct propels the story: the desire to survive. #animation #storytelling #worldbuilding

Helen L @thehellers.bsky.social · Apr 9

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Helen, a narrative designer for games. I also make XR experiences. Interactive mediums help us understand ourselves. My work has appeared with UKAI Projects, the Ottawa Design Club, the Digital Arts Resource Centre, and the Codame Art+Tech Festival.

www.lastdaysofparadise.com

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Helen L @thehellers.bsky.social · Apr 8

A surreal, large-scale arthouse film with a single-hour long shot near the climax. Long Day's Journey into Night (2018) is a film that operates according to its own inner, secret logic. It has the power to mesmerize and reveal, but not explain. #surreal #film #storytelling

Helen L @thehellers.bsky.social · Apr 7

Totally. It’s such a gem. I felt like I was seeing and touching someone’s emotions.

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Helen L @thehellers.bsky.social · Apr 7

I love the environmental storytelling in #Psychonauts2. Our experiences of reality can be so subjective. It's a challenge in any medium to convey this to an audience. The level design really lets you feel what it's like to be in someone else's mind. #worldbuilding #gamedev #gamewriting

Source: https://www.doublefine.com/games/psychonauts-2

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