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The Virtual Worlds Museum™ extends a heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported our Kickstarter campaign. Your belief in this work is helping us document, preserve, and share the stories of virtual worlds, world builders, creators, and communities at a time when these spaces are changing faster than ever.
This support is more than a contribution to a video series. It is a contribution to cultural preservation, immersive education, and the long-term growth of the Virtual Worlds Museum™. Because of our Kickstarter supporters, we are able to continue developing the Spotlight Video Series, expanding our archive of interviews, and building Teleportal TV as a public channel for discovering the people and platforms shaping virtual culture.
Teleportal TV will serve as the home for our field reports, platform tours, creator interviews, preservation stories, and museum updates. As it grows, it will help more people understand why virtual worlds matter and why the communities behind them deserve to be seen, remembered, and celebrated.
Watch and follow Teleportal TV here: https://www.youtube.com/@Teleportal_TV/videos
We are honored to recognize the supporters who helped make this next chapter possible:
This section recognizes supporters whose contributions helped provide major momentum for the Spotlight Video Series. Associate Producers play an important role in helping us document virtual worlds with greater depth, quality, and reach. Reach to learn more.
Thomas Zorbach - Immersive X
IMMERSIVE X is an annual, non-profit global festival and community dedicated to Extended Reality (XR) and the Metaverse. Hosted entirely in virtual reality (VR), it brings together researchers, artists, educators, and industry leaders to explore how immersive technologies impact education, healthcare, and society
This section recognizes supporters who contributed to the preservation of specific community stories, including the urgent documentation of Rec Room and other virtual spaces facing transition, closure, or cultural loss. These supporters helped us respond to a critical moment for world builders and communities whose work deserves to be remembered.
Ian “epredator” Hughes, A.L. Katzman, Emily Olman, Thomas Furness (Luminara Institute), and Michael Barngrover (XR4Europe)
This section recognizes supporters who helped advance the digital museum experience and early access development.
Robin White Owen, Peter W., Amy Peck, Sven Mattes, Terry xR. Schussler, Bryan Bortz, Linda Fisher, Amy LaMeyer, Andrew Bartlett, David Waitforit Nassau, Joyce Bettencourt, Dadara, AND Aaron Pulkka.
This section recognizes the broader community of supporters who helped bring the campaign to life.
Hans de Wolf, Dr. Robert M Geraci, Michael Salmon, Dominik Gebauer, Rachael, Aldyn Holt, Barry Joseph, Jason Moore, Anita Wielgosz (New Daring World), Paul Marcano, Raspberry 55, and Bruce Webber.
For organizations, platforms, studios, educators, and sponsors who did not get a chance to join the crowdfunder, there is still an opportunity to support the next phase of this work.
The Virtual Worlds Museum™ is actively seeking aligned sponsors and partners to help us expand the Spotlight Video Series, grow Teleportal TV, document more world builders, and preserve the stories of virtual platforms across WebXR, VR, games, apps, open source, Blockchain, and sunset worlds.
Sponsorship helps us film more interviews, produce new episodes, support post-production, archive cultural history, and make this work accessible to a wider public audience.
Your support can help us preserve the worlds, communities, and creative legacies shaping the future of immersive culture.