Over Coffee® is on spring break. Please enjoy this reposting of one of our top episodes of 2024!

“To be honest with you, I think that every day is an opportunity to learn something new,” comments futurist and award-winning XR community leader Paige Dansinger.

That curiosity, along with a sense of joy in discovering new creative technologies, allows her to empower others.

A gifted artist, Paige has created more than 300 immersive worlds. She is the founder of Horizon Art Museum, and of Women in Horizon, in Meta Horizon Worlds.

Among the multiple honors she’s garnered for her work in the metaverse is her recognition by Meta as one of the Top 115 Global Community Leaders.

In addition, she is the creator and Founding Director of Better World Museum, which is accessible in different versions on three virtual platforms: Meta Horizon, Roblox and Rec Room.

Participants in her XR worlds are encouraged to grow, and to explore their own creativity, by painting, building and adding their voices to items they’ve created. And if this sounds like a lot of fun, in the process–it absolutely is.

And world building is only one of the ways she inspires fellow creatives in XR.

The best kind of teacher

Paige shares her expertise by teaching world building, as she continues on her personal learning journey. Her ultimate goal: a better, more loving and equitable world, as people unite to create magic in the metaverse.

“One 30-minute building session with me will give you the roadblocks to feel that you have a foundation,” she says.

Ultimately, her virtual work is about humanity, as we use XR to grow together.

Paige talked about her background, shared the story of creating the Better World Museum and the ways she uses virtual art to empower others, and offered a look at some of her favorite creative resources.

On this edition of Over Coffee® we cover:

• The start of Paige’s journey as an artist;

• Her first experience with creative technologies;

• The story of the Better World Museum (and her first VR project!);

• One of her favorite experiences, touring internationally and empowering others through creativity and virtual reality;

• Her creative process, when designing her empowering XR experiences;

• A closer look at her Women in Horizon classes;

• Some of the features visitors can explore, in Better World Museum;

• A look inside Horizon Art Museum;

• Where to get started, if you’d like to learn more about creating in XR;

• The new technologies Paige would like to explore next;

• Some of the world building resources she recommends.