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    Virtual Worlds Museum

    A cultural nexus for the spatial web — preserving virtual worlds across platforms

    The Virtual Worlds Museum™ is a cultural and research institution focused on preserving and documenting virtual world platforms as lasting expressions of human creativity, social interaction, and technological innovation. At the center of their work is the Teleportal — an interactive gateway spanning WebXR, Meta Quest, Apple Vision Pro, and Pico. XRGuide's first featured sponsor and preservation partner.
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    Teleportal 3D Force Graph — Virtual Worlds Museum
    Teleportal v1 — a 3D force graph mapping virtual world platforms as a dynamic ecosystem
    Teleportal — Virtual Worlds Museum

    Teleportal_TV Spotlight Series

    Documentary field reports from the Virtual Worlds Museum

    Researchers and guests chronicle one virtual world platform per episode and feature a world inside it. Watch on the Teleportal TV channel, a plain YouTube video page that plays in any browser with no headset required.

    Spotlight Series episodes from Teleportal TV. Video plays in your browser, no headset or account required.

    SEHU / Julian ReyesHost & Director — Virtual Worlds MuseumIn Kenzo / EvoResearcher & Guest Host — Realitycraft

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    Season 1 — WebXR Exhibit

    Field reports cataloguing immersive spaces one platform at a time, including the Arrival.Space spotlight with researcher In Kenzo. Recognized by the AUREA Award at Europa-Park.

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    Season 2 — VR & Apps Exhibit

    Chronicling headset-native platforms and their worlds, including the Second Life episode with anthropologist Tom Boellstorff, shot with Carlos Austin and In Kenzo.

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    Season 3 — Sunset

    Interviews with worldbuilders across worlds about what happens after a platform sunsets, and how communities keep going.

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    Teleportal TV on YouTube

    Life inside the museum

    Visitors gathered in the Virtual Worlds Museum Identity exhibit, reading research panels on eye tracking and biometric privacy
    Inside the Identity exhibit: researchers and visitors reading panels on eye tracking and biometric data in VR.
    Avatars touring a photogrammetry capture of the frescoed Piccolomini Library
    A guided tour through a photogrammetry capture of the frescoed Piccolomini Library.
    Avatars and a dolphin character in a bright summer pool world during a museum meetup
    Museum night in a Unreality3D summer world during a Teleportal platform crawl.

    Living Archive

    Documentation of social VR, WebXR, and metaverse experiences — capturing scenes that may not last on the live web.

    Creator Lineage

    Profiles of foundational worldbuilders whose work shaped the field, surfaced alongside today's releases on XRGuide.

    Cross-Platform Memory

    Teleportal ships across Frame, WebXR, Meta Quest (Unity), and WebSpatial for Apple Vision Pro & Pico.

    How we collaborate

    As XRGuide's first featured sponsor, the Virtual Worlds Museum helps us surface legacy worlds, retired platforms, and preservation-worthy experiences worth highlighting in our catalog. The Teleportal team curates collections and flags upcoming exhibitions and events for the news and calendar.

    VWM is also a core collaborator on the MetaTraversal series and on XRGuide's portal crawls — co-hosting multi-world tours, museum nights, and archival showcases that connect today's creators to the worlds that came before. VWM nominates curators and guides into the XRGuide program, and their Julian Reyes contributes ongoing commentary on platform sunsets and community continuity.

    Explore Virtual Worlds Museum Worlds

    All five Teleportal versions plus the flagship Frame hub — one creator, many platforms. This is XRGuide's reference implementation of a paid sponsor / organizational creator page.

    Virtual Worlds Museum Hub
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    Virtual Worlds Museum Hub

    The flagship Frame VR hub of the Virtual Worlds Museum™ — a cultural and research institution preserving and documenting virtual world platforms as lasting expressions of human creativity, social interaction, and technological innovation. Features Spotlight Series interviews and stories.

    Open experience
    Teleportal — 3D Force Graph
    WebXR

    Teleportal — 3D Force Graph

    Version 1 of the Teleportal — an interactive 3D force graph that maps virtual world platforms as a dynamic ecosystem. Curated by the Virtual Worlds Museum™, it lets visitors search platforms, explore relationships between worlds, and launch platform links directly. Emphasizes discovery, research transparency, and contextual navigation.

    Open experience
    Teleportal: Map the Metaverse
    WebXR

    Teleportal: Map the Metaverse

    Version 2 of the Teleportal — an interactive map for exploring virtual world platforms, categories, and connected records. Search worlds, click nodes, or browse major category rings to discover related platforms and museum locations. Hover for a preview; click to pin a world's details.

    Open experience
    Teleportal — Education & Youth (2D Square Viewer)
    WebXR

    Teleportal — Education & Youth (2D Square Viewer)

    Version 3 of the Teleportal, designed for education and younger audiences. Presents virtual worlds in a simplified 2D grid layout with intuitive rollovers — clarity and accessibility for classrooms, workshops, and introductory learning environments.

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    Teleportal — Meta Quest (Unity 3D Native)
    Quest

    Teleportal — Meta Quest (Unity 3D Native)

    Version 4 of the Teleportal — a fully immersive Unity 3D build deployed natively on Meta Quest through a release channel. Enables spatial exploration of virtual world links in VR; currently available for Meta Quest 2 and 3 via direct access. Prioritizes embodied navigation and experiential learning inside a headset-native environment.

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    Teleportal — WebSpatial XR (Vision Pro & Pico)
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    Teleportal — WebSpatial XR (Vision Pro & Pico)

    Version 5 of the Teleportal — adapted for spatial computing devices including Apple Vision Pro and Pico, in collaboration with WebSpatial. Leverages open spatial standards and browser-native XR, with engineering by Steven Van Loon. Goal: cross-device accessibility without reliance on closed app stores.

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    Events

    • 2026-07-16

      After Sunset — Keeping the Community (Teleportal Team)

      Live conversation with Julian Reyes and the Teleportal team at the Virtual Worlds Museum — reflecting on what happens after platforms sunset and how communities keep going. Hosted on LinkedIn Live.

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    Avatars exploring a frescoed heritage interior captured for the Virtual Worlds Museum
    Heritage captures and social tours sit side by side in the museum's programming.

    Collaborators

    Worlds, series, and events the Virtual Worlds Museum partners with — co-produced tours, crossover exhibitions, and preservation-minded programming across the spatial web.

    Event Series

    MetaTraversal

    A cross-platform event series traversing social VR, WebXR, and the spatial web. VWM co-hosts stops on the tour and hosts archival showcases inside the Teleportal.

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    Event Series

    Immersive X

    A recurring gathering for immersive artists, researchers, and worldbuilders. VWM contributes preservation programming and guided Teleportal tours across editions.

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    XRGuide

    Portal Crawls

    XRGuide's guided multi-world tours across WebXR, VRChat, Frame, Horizon, and beyond. Co-programmed with VWM curators and featured Teleportal drops.

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    Sponsor & creator template

    This page is XRGuide's reference implementation for organizational sponsors and multi-world creators. One creator profile aggregates every world, event, and news mention across platforms — reusable for future partners and museums. Interested? See partnership tracks →

    Partner with XRGuide

    Virtual Worlds Museum is one of the organizations we work alongside on mixed reality, streaming events, summits, portal crawls, productions and distribution strategies. Partners get first access to add new releases into the guide.

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