Worlds I Wanted to See

This website is about the result of nearly ten years spent building, exploring, experimenting, and dreaming inside virtual worlds.

My journey began with the arrival of consumer VR in 2016. At the time, I was fascinated by the idea that places I had previously only imagined could actually be built—and, more importantly, visited from within. Before that, I had created different things in virtual worlds like Second Life®, but it wasn't enough; I wanted to be there. VR finally offered that possibility of stepping inside those creations.

When I started exploring social VR, there were three major platforms that particularly caught my attention: Sansar, VRChat, and High Fidelity. I chose High Fidelity because it gave me something I wasn't finding elsewhere. Its avatars felt comfortable and natural, its worlds could extend to an enormous 32 km, servers could be self-hosted, and its scripting environment used JavaScript, a language I was already familiar with.

High Fidelity eventually came to an end in 2019. Its community and technology continued in different directions, including Vircadia, which later changed direction and ultimately ceased to operate as a community platform. From there, my journey continued into Overte.

Over the years, I have built worlds, places, environments, experiments, systems, vehicles, objects, and countless little details. I started learning 3D modeling and material creation with Blender essentially from scratch, simply because building in these worlds made me want to understand how everything worked.

And that process became an exploration in itself.

I wanted to find out what this technology could actually do—not just what was being demonstrated with it. I often felt that these platforms were capable of far more than most people realized. The possibilities were there, but they weren't always being shown.

This website is an attempt to change that.

It is a way to document and share the virtual worlds I have created throughout this journey, from the earliest experiments to the more ambitious projects that came later. Some are complete places. Some are experiments. Some are pieces of larger worlds. Some may simply represent an idea I wanted to try.

Together, they form a kind of archive of nearly a decade of exploration.

At its heart, this is a hobby project. There is no commercial platform behind it, no virtual economy that needs to generate revenue, and no company deciding what content should exist. Overte is built with a philosophy that is much closer to the Web: content can be public, distributed, and shared, while individuals can host and create their own spaces.

That decentralization is an important part of why I continue to believe in it.

A virtual world should not necessarily belong to a corporation. It doesn't have to disappear because a business model changes, a company loses interest, or a service is shut down. It can be something people build themselves, host themselves, and keep alive on their own.

After almost ten years, I am still fascinated by that idea.

So this site is not simply a portfolio.

It is a record of a journey, a collection of places that were built because I wanted to see them, walk through them, and experience them from the inside.

And perhaps, by showing what can be created with this technology, it can also help others discover what these virtual worlds are capable of.