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Worldbuild
Research and development in cybernetic psychonautics — how people understand, share, and keep control when the ground keeps moving.
Founder, Worldbuild.io
Dale P. Deacon
South African XR director, worldbuilder, and experiential technologist — advancing cybernetic psychonautics through research you can visit and products you can ship.
The Vision
Tools, attention, and platforms shift under every brief. Flat media keeps falling short when work depends on how people perceive, share, and decide.
How do people understand something, move that understanding, and keep control of it — when tools, attention, and platforms keep shifting under them?
Worldbuild answers that through Immersion, Storytelling, and Distribution — R&D with a professional artist's craft: research you can visit, and products you can ship.
Terrain
Three answers to one question — understand, move, keep control.
Latest Progress
In the field
Active focus and where work sits on the Atlas.
Latest
Newest writing and development — vault, essays, and GitHub, sorted by update time.
Development Intro
Obsidian
Development Worldbuild.io builds apps, VR worlds, and open-source tools — on iOS, Android, VRChat, and Viverse. Published: App Store · Google Play · VRChat · Vi…
Progress across 7 repositories
Obsidian
12 commit(s) on Deez-Flipper-Toolbox, Deez-Pi-Harness, Deez-Project-Manager… (@DeaconDP)
Precipicism, Part 2: Perspective
Medium
Today, many of us wrestle with the notion of superhuman intelligence. Is it possible? Is it likely? What are its implications? What are the risks? What is our role in such a world? All valid concerns.…
The Cradle of Humankind
Obsidian
Official UNESCO World Heritage Site app for Gauteng — maps, media, and AR that have to work outdoors on consumer phones, not headset demos.
Planning A VR Development Project
Medium
A VR Software Development Lifecycle (VR-SDLC)So you’ve come around to the idea that “immersion” is a really profound concept; That experiencing something can sometimes be more meaningful to someone th…
Successful Expeditions
Documented fieldwork — festival venues, heritage sites, and products you can open, play, and inspect.
Live in VRChat · 45,000+ visitors
Venice Immersive (2025)
A world-class festival needed a VRChat Worlds Gallery audiences could navigate at scale. We built the official venue for the 82nd Venice Film Festival with MetaVerse Crew curators — wayfinding and capacity for 45,000+ visitors.
Enter expedition →iOS & Android · UNESCO site
The Cradle of Humankind (2025)
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.
Visit →
iOS App Store #1
EmilyGPT (2024)
Own-IP voice AR needed an inhabitable companion, not another chatbot shell. We designed, built, and shipped EmilyGPT — it hit #1 on the iOS App Store Paid Entertainment charts.
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