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Is the metaverse still relevant?
Mar 6
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Jeff Barry
Notes from X (& elsewhere)
on World Models, Simulation & Games
Feb 9
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Night Listener DevLog #1
What happened in January 2026
Feb 2
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AI Art & the Commercial Value of Images
Jan 2, 2023
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Jeff Barry
AI Art is an Iterative Process
Dec 19, 2022
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Jeff Barry
Crafting an Interactive Mystery
Oct 11, 2024
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Jeff Barry
Beyond AGI Hype
Jun 24, 2025
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Jeff Barry
Jazz in Conversational AI
Dec 2, 2023
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Jeff Barry
Behind the AI Spring, the Metaverse Quietly Takes Shape
Apr 25, 2023
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One Story. Three Big Ideas. One Year.
My AI Focus for 2026
Dec 24, 2025
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Inheriting Presence
A 19th-century hotel in Saigon, and the ghostly avatars that will linger long after we’re gone
Sep 24, 2025
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Jeff Barry
World Models
The Invisible Architecture Behind Simulated Reality
Aug 6, 2025
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Jeff Barry
Dialogue in the Dark
We all become phantoms, phantoms of ourselves, ghosts reappearing as fragments
Jul 21, 2025
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Jeff Barry
Music's Open Secret
What Generative Storytelling Can Learn from DAWs and VSTs
Jul 15, 2025
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Jeff Barry
Beyond AGI Hype
Crafting a Responsible Path for AI
Jun 24, 2025
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Jeff Barry
Finishing my "adult" novel
20 years of writing, editing, and letting go
May 19, 2025
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