The Metaverse is Open

The Metaverse was never about Meta

Research continues to advance the ecosystem

Apr 3 • Jeff Barry

March 2026

Is the metaverse still relevant?

Mar 6 • Jeff Barry

February 2026

Notes from X (& elsewhere)

on World Models, Simulation & Games

Feb 9 • Jeff Barry

Night Listener DevLog #1

What happened in January 2026

Feb 2 • Jeff Barry

December 2025

One Story. Three Big Ideas. One Year.

My AI Focus for 2026

Dec 24, 2025 • Jeff Barry

September 2025

Inheriting Presence

A 19th-century hotel in Saigon, and the ghostly avatars that will linger long after we’re gone

Sep 24, 2025 • Jeff Barry

August 2025

World Models

The Invisible Architecture Behind Simulated Reality

Aug 6, 2025 • Jeff Barry

July 2025

Dialogue in the Dark

We all become phantoms, phantoms of ourselves, ghosts reappearing as fragments

Jul 21, 2025 • Jeff Barry

Music's Open Secret

What Generative Storytelling Can Learn from DAWs and VSTs

Jul 15, 2025 • Jeff Barry

June 2025

Beyond AGI Hype

Crafting a Responsible Path for AI

Jun 24, 2025 • Jeff Barry

May 2025

Finishing my "adult" novel

20 years of writing, editing, and letting go

May 19, 2025 • Jeff Barry

A Personal Reset in Saigon

On leaving academia and beginning again

May 10, 2025 • Jeff Barry