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NEW! Hello and WELCOME to Virtual Worlds Company!!! We are a small studio at the bottom tip of AFRICA [ZA] and we build entire VIRTUAL WORLDS that real humans walk around inside of. Yes, like the movies. No, we are not kidding. We made our own UNIVERSE called "UNCANNY ALLEY" (yes, a WHOLE universe) and a LIVE THEATRE SHOW inside it that premiered at the VENICE FILM FESTIVAL 🎭, won awards at RAINDANCE 🏆 and in TAIWAN 🏆, and now the TELEVISION ACADEMY has nominated it for an EMMY®!!! ▼▼▼ SCROLL DOWN TO ENTER THE FUTURE ▼▼▼ 🚧 THE FUTURE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION — SCROLL AT YOUR OWN RISK 🚧
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MADE BY HUMANS, ASSISTED BY MACHINES_
We build worlds people step inside.
Sometimes they cry. That's the point.
One universe of our own — and a practice that builds far beyond it. Original IP, live shows, jams, classrooms, communities.
Our universe — born in lockdown, 2020, from one question: can strangers truly connect across the world inside a shared one? A forgotten back alley of the open metaverse where Gh0st, Glitch, Atom and the Metazins live under Big Meta and the overlords — and Gh0st roams platform after platform, hunting for a place to call home. Original IP, built and owned by VWC_ · winner of the Spirit of Raindance, 2023. Step inside at uncannyalley.io.
A live theatrical show set in the Alley — six strangers, real actors, 75 minutes, performed inside VR, where MetaRick_ and Ferryman Collective fuse living theatre with the universe. Emmy® nominated, Venice premiered, decorated on three continents.
It started with a game jam on a moving train — makers, laptops and no wifi, thirty-odd hours of rails across South Africa, with Berlin's A MAZE. festival. When the trains stopped running, the jam didn't: it moved into VR, and the station world we co-built for it earned a selection at Venice's immersive showcase.
The jam spirit became a practice. Lab advisor and mentor to new generations of immersive artists around the world. Avatar-sculpting and worldbuilding workshops at festivals like L.E.V. — and the same sessions run online, taught live from inside VR, for anyone with a headset or a browser. The classroom is the medium.
Building the African immersive-arts community a permanent home of its own in VRChat, with Electric South — grown out of hosting their metaverse meetups. A gathering place for the continent's XR artists: open, social, reachable on any headset or screen. Because a scene needs somewhere to stand.
The workshop never sleeps. New worlds beyond the Alley, new collaborations, new formats — live performance, WebXR, physical-digital hybrids, whatever the next doorway turns out to be. Most of it we can't show you yet. Some of it is already watching you.
Dragged out of the CRT, polished, real. (The Emmy® has its own room upstairs.)
World premiere, in competition — and winner of the fanheart3 XR Fan Experience Award.
Winner — plus 2nd place for Best Sound Design. The machine has ears.
Award winner and Asia premiere at Taiwan's home of XR cinema — the Alley opens a door on every continent.
For the original Uncanny Alley — the universe itself, where Gh0st, Glitch and the Metazins first opened the door. And where MetaRick_ met Ferryman Collective.
A New Day returned to Raindance's 10th edition as a nominee.
The XR industry's own awards tipped the hat to A New Day.
This very homepage goes live. A dial-up modem screeches and the whole planet pours through the screen — the day a kid at the bottom tip of Africa learns computers aren't machines, they're doorways to worlds.
16,000,000+ mobile game downloads before phones were smart.
Game developers on a moving train — the A MAZE. Train Jam rolls Johannesburg → Cape Town with A MAZE. Berlin and the Goethe-Institut. Same year: creative advisor at Electric South's New Dimensions VR/AR Lab. The seed of everything labs.
Uncanny Alley begins — a lockdown experiment in worldbuilding: can strangers truly connect across the planet inside a shared world? The gates open. The Train Jam goes virtual too — we co-build its VRChat Train Station.
Deeper into the Alley — lore, characters — while Gh0st roams the open metaverse hunting for home, and the world argues over Big Meta and the overlords. The A MAZE. Train Station is selected for Venice VR Expanded.
Uncanny Alley wins the Spirit of Raindance — and it's where Ferryman Collective and MetaRick_ first meet.
A New Day — VWC teams up with Ferryman Collective, fusing live theatre with the living universe. And this is where we are. Venice premiere (fanheart3), XR Must winner, award-winning Kaohsiung premiere. Uncanny Alley shows at L.E.V. Gijón; the avatar-sculpting hackathon at L.E.V. Matadero, Madrid.
A New Day tours the world — Raindance Best Immersive Theatre nominee, Auggie nod at AWE. Guided Alley tours return to L.E.V. Matadero.
EMMY® NOMINATION — Outstanding Emerging Media Program.
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