Meta delivered Horizon Worlds VR users a 90-day eviction notice...then walked it back to soften the blow. Days later, Rec Room announced its own shutdown. And the social VR community is left managing an unexpected but very real grief over virtual identities, digital worlds they built, and communities they called home with no other (virtually) real place to go and rebuild.

In this episode, Clorama sits down again with Siciliana Trevino, a decade-long veteran of social VR, to ask the question the industry keeps avoiding: why does a technology with this much genuine potential keep falling short of what it could be and who it actually ends up serving?

They cover:

• Why the Horizon Worlds collapse hurts even for people who never used it
• The sunk cost fallacy and what it really costs to believe in a virtual platform today
• Why VRChat survived when Horizon, Rec Room and AltSpace didn't
• Why "VR is dead" is misunderstood according to it's team member Siciliana (and possibly liberating) thing the community can hear right now
• What a healthy relationship with unstable, unproven but genuinely exciting technology actually looks like
• The reality of who actually uses it and why it likely hasn't reached its fullest potential as a result

The Existential Crisis of a Tech Enthusiast is a 6-episode series examining the widening gap between XR's biggest promises and the people who believed in them most.

(Recorded on March 29th, 2026)

🎙️ Guest: Siciliana Trevino -- 3D designer, world builder, former PM at AlcoveVR

🎙️ Host: Clorama Dorvilias -- Creative Technologist, Former Founder, and Former PM (at Meta Reality Labs and Google XR)

📺 Series: The Existential Crisis of a Tech Enthusiast (Available on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts)

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