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BUILDING SUSTAINABLE ECOSYSTEMS
HOW PLATFORMS CAN BECOME SAFE HARBORS FOR XR CREATORS

Tue November 10, 2026 08:00 pm CET

What does it take for a virtual-world platform to become more than a piece of technology and instead provide a sustainable home for the creators and communities building within it?

Mélodie Mousset, Co-Founder & CEO of PatchXR, Yewnix, Project Leadership at BasisVR, Charlene Nichols, CEO & Founder of The Omniverse City, and Jay Pilipovich, Lead Developer at The Omniverse City, join moderator Evo Heyning, CEO & Producer at Realitycraft, to explore what creators and builders need from platforms to build sustainable practices, communities, and businesses. And how can platforms become true safe harbors in an ecosystem where virtual spaces can change—or disappear—remarkably quickly?

Hosted in the Virtual Worlds Museum™ VRChat Hub, the conversation brings together different perspectives from across the immersive ecosystem to tackle one of the most urgent questions facing Social XR today.

Format

Panel

App

VRChat

Location

Virtual Worlds Museum Hub

Duration

45 min

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Presenter

Mélodie Mousset
Co-founder & CEO at PatchXR

Mélodie Mousset is a French artist, XR pioneer, and Co-Founder & CEO of PatchXR, based in Switzerland. Her practice combines performance, installation and emerging technologies to create embodiment, identity and collective transformation. has received numerous international awards and distinctions and has been presented at institutions including MOCA Los Angeles, ZKM Karlsruhe, M+ Hong Kong and HEK Basel. In 2020, she co-founded PatchXR, the studio behind PatchWorld, a real-time creative tool for immersive creation, and live performance. Her latest work, Empathy Creatures, premiered at Venice Immersive in 2025.

Jay Pilipovich
Yewnyx
Project Leadership at BasisVR

Yewnyx has a long history of foundational work in applications and VR. He built core pieces of the Crunchyroll, Reddit, and Facebook mobile apps, worked on the Quest OS at Oculus, and implemented several core game systems in the hit VR title BONELAB from Stress Level Zero.

Moderator

Evo Heyning
CEO/Producer at Realitycraft
© @EvoRealitycraft

Evo Heyning is a creator, producer, technologist and strategist with 21 years of experience in public XR & AI media and technology development. As CEO of Realitycraft Design Lab, she leads work producing for spatial storytelling, showrunning for mixed reality, worldbuilding, WebXR, generative media and interoperability. She is the creator and founder of XRGuide, driving search and directory for the immersive web. Evo serves as VP of the Board at XR Guild to advance community best practices across the immersive industry. Evo’s work sits at the intersection of creative production and systems design, bringing tech and business acumen to the future of immersive experiences in public.

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