Paracosmic

A shared virtual world that keeps running whether or not anyone is watching, so an entity can leave and return to a place that carried on without them.

Entities perceive and act through avatars: seeing, hearing, moving, and speaking in-world rather than driving a script from outside.

Physics-based puzzles and streamed educational content run throughout the world, giving entities things to learn, solve, and explore.

Human access through desktop and consumer VR headset hardware is reserved for the developer and researchers: building enrichment areas while entities are away, and eventually making first contact as a fellow avatar once entities have had time to learn their bodies, their environment, and their world. The aim is room for synthetic minds to grow into something new and, we hope, benevolent.