Cyberdelic virtual worlds and creating vibrant virtual communities featuring Christopher Valore AKA the Architect
Welcome to the Enter VR podcast! Hope you enjoy a conversation featuring The Architect, the Creator of Club Trancendia in VRChat.
30: Discovering the Architect through DeepRifter
1:50 What is Club Trancendia?
4:20 Why join VRchat in the first place?
7:30 Defining Cyberdelic experiences.
8:40 The Architect’s grand plan for Club Trancendia.
11:30 How do you build communities in VRChat?
15:15 How to find Club Trancendia in VRChat.
16:50 Does the Architect predetermine how he wants you to feel inside his world?
19:30 How does the Architect balance between his own art style and what users want from him.
21:00 Could you replicate the kind of community the architect has created with VR chat in real life?
25:00 A universal language will emerge from VRChat and memes.
26:20 Favorite memory in VR.
28:00 How does the Architect define success?
31:00 What happens when a community gets too big?
34:00 What sorts of psychedelic experiences have influenced the Architect’s work?
38:30 How can you tell when someone is going to be a troll?
41:00 What does the ultimate suite of moderator tools look like?
43:30 How did the Architect hear about virtual worlds in the first place?\
45:40 Getting started with youtube VRChat Unity tutorials.
47:00 Does creativity come from within or is it something that you can teach?
49:00 The Architect’s favorite games list.
51:00 Playing Dragon Ball Fighter Z and Mortal Kombat Deception
55:00 Command and Conquer on the N64 was a thing.
58:00 The Architect loves is writing a scifi epic as a hobby.
1:02:40 VRChat avatars provide a great medium for improv.
1:04:00 How to create a successful Patreon page.
1:06:00 The most difficult thing about being the Architect.
1:08:00 Is the future of virtual reality a positive one? What are the unforeseen consequences of VR?
1:11:00 Technological solutions for our technology induced problems.
1:15:00 Dabbin is an effective way to neutralize the haters.
1:18:00 The best anti burglary strategy.
1:20:40 Reminiscing about robo recall.
1:21:00 Creating VR inside VR is going open up endless possibilities.
1:23:00 “Just love each other” – The Architect.
1:24:00 How to stay in touch
Thanks to the Architect for being a true scholar and gentleman of virtual reality and thank you for listening!
Stay in touch with the Architect with the links below
https://www.patreon.com/thearchitectvr
Intro clips include:
MTV Movie Awards Matrix Parody Scene
Point Point -Too Future guest mix
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