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Dale P. Deacon
South African XR director, worldbuilder, and experiential technologist.
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Tools change every week, platforms compete for every minute of attention, and the future starts to feel like something done to us.
Worldbuild.io stands for presence. For beauty. For the fleeting elegance of the moment.
We make experiential media: work you step into, not scroll past. We make it through Directing, Producing, and Distributing.
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Quest 3 & 3S prototype · 2026
Glass Angels (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
Strangeways: The Only Way Out Is Through (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
Venice Immersive Worlds Gallery (2024–2026)
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.
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iOS & Android · UNESCO site
The Cradle of Humankind (2025–Present)
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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Silver Loerie · 3× Gold IAB Bookmarks
Life of Confidence (2023)
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 · Bronze Loeries · Creative Circle
Made in the Cape Market (2023)
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
Mormoverse: Under The Pillow (2023)
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 →Collaboration archive
A public register of client and partner work from 2021 — who we built with, the medium, and what was recognised.
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2024 | 2024StrangewaysUnity
| Shtik XR / Chris Bianchi | production |
| More about Strangeways |
| 2022 |  2022OxymoreUnity
| VRROOM / Jean-Michel Jarre | production |
| More about Oxymore |
| 2021 |  2021Bliss In The Ear Of The StormUnity
| Shtik / Adam Lieber | production |
| More about Bliss In The Ear Of The Storm |
| 2023 | 2023Made in the Cape MarketWeb
| Wesgro / Accenture Song | production |
| More about Made in the Cape Market |
| 2023 | 2023Life of ConfidenceUnreal
| Sanlam / Black Ginger / Accenture Song | production |
| More about Life of Confidence |
| 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 |
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