# November 1 - Day 2: Old friends, new friends, internet friends, and metaverses.

"I came without knowing anyone and I left with a family," said Christopher when we shared reflections from Glith 2021.

This is my second year at Glitch and what makes this different than any other residency I've been to is that we allow space for projects to evolve through the relationships we build while living and working together. As opposed to coming with a project idea to execute on.

This is not only a space of execution but also of exploration, insiration, and generative project building.

My single reflection: Be willing to leave having built something your imagination couldn't previously conjure.

Some of us know each other from last year and others are meeting for the first time, but all seem inspired by the amazing group of humans we will spend the next two weeks with.

We had lunch outside in the sun. The kale and tomato salad was terrific. I think the kale was grilled. And I had lamb for breakfast.The food is remarkable this year.

Jess introduced everyone to the chateau and gave a tour. A personal highlight of her presentation was seeing the new projects and how Fey continues to grow in both depth and scale.

P kicked off the residency presenting projects that came out of Glitch 2021 and an overview of "extitutions" and "hyperstition".


Everyone introduced themselves, amongst the introductions, key words and terms that stuck out for me were: a choreogrphaer and an HCI-er building experiences with bodies and computers, musical instruments that can be played by multiple people, how blockchain and metaverse interact, painters, engineers, an opera singer, AI, species larping...a room of polyglots.

And we presented hyperstitions:
- A forest will have it's own agency and autonomy
- In 20 years my grandmother will understand web3
- Minting memories and write histories for the future
- To develop and ship a project with someone I've newly met while here

Cristal and Jeroen presented a metaverse they built that enables anyone to create a metaverse. What kinds of features would you want in your metaverse? They asked.
- Interoperability between metaverses
- A sonic metaverse, where sound could be realized spatially.
- More light and shadows, less flat visuals?
- The ability to add new physics

My question: Why are metaverse avatars built with human bodies and even more confusing, clothes? Why wouldn't we choose to have wings or 12 arms? Or be able to morph into different creatures?

Are we making a mistake building metaverses that simply reflect our known world? Why not more imagination with the roles, relationships, and physics?

I had a fantastic conversation at dinner with Christal about metaverse/blockchain/IRL interfacing, founding companies, and networked states.

I popped into a mini-debate outside asking what constitutes a metaverse and doesn't? What is "presence" in a metaverse? Is spatiality in a metaverse a cognitive function and if so how do we consider presence then?

The day finished with a cheese course and a presentation by Yann of his life and cyberpunk history illustrated in a metaverse of his own creation.`