I’m Paige Dansinger (MetaversePaige). I’ve build over 300 virtual worlds, check some out! Enjoy!!!
Virtual Worlds
🌊 Why Coral Collective?
Coral Collective—along with Coral Quest, Deep Reef, and Sea Coral—was created to reimagine how we engage with the ocean. At a time when SDG 14: Life Below Water remains the least funded and often most overlooked of the UN Global Goals, these immersive, virtual reef experiences invite people into a vibrant, participatory relationship with the ocean’s most fragile ecosystems.
Created by Better World Museum, Coral Collective is not just digital art—it’s a regenerative call to action. As a museum dedicated to climate justice, community resilience, and creative technology, we saw a critical need to bring coral—and the ocean—back into people’s hearts, minds, and imaginations.
In a world of information overload and climate fatigue, we turned to play, storytelling, and AI to spark renewed connection. Through worldbuilding, AI coral NPCs, and interactive experiences like catching polyps or regenerating virtual reefs, people don’t just learn about marine life—they become part of its future.
These projects serve multiple goals:
✅ Raise awareness and empathy for endangered coral species and biodiversity loss
🎮 Teach new digital skills, like using GenAI to make 3D coral assets and worlds
🌐 Inspire global collaboration to regenerate reefs, virtually and physically
💡 Empower 1 million creators by 2030 to build for the sea
As the founder of Better World Museum, it’s clear to me: Museums must be active agents of hope and change. Coral Collective is our response—a place where art, tech, and community come together to restore what we still have time to save.
Select Image to Visit Virtual World: Coral Colelctive, Coral Quest (NEW Mobile Game), Deep Reef, and Sea Coral Virtual Worlds. Assessible on Mobile, PC, or VR
🌊 Coral Quest – A Mobile VR Game to Restore the Reef 🪸 Created for the Meta Worlds Mobile Game Competition
Welcome to Colorful Coral Quest, a joyful and immersive mobile VR game where players help restore coral reefs—one polyp at a time. Created inside Meta Horizon Worlds, this game invites players to swim, collect coral polyps, and grow vibrant reefs that spark new ocean life.
✨ Gameplay Highlights Tap a glowing coral to begin Catch floating coral polyps to restore bleached coral Watch as fish, jellyfish, and sea creatures return with every 5 corals Complete all 3 reef rounds to win—and inspire real-world change
💡 Our Mission Inspired by UN SDG 14: Life Below Water, Colorful Coral Quest raises awareness about ocean health and the power of collective action through play.
🧠 Created By: 🎨 Sara Tink Mapelli – Artist & Designer 📱 Seth Gibson – Mobile Developer 🎧 Paige Dansinger – Creative Director & Audio
🌐 Join the movement! Help us grow a global Coral Collective by contributing a 3D coral asset or building your own reef world in Horizon Worlds. Together, we’re building a virtual reef for the planet—with room for up to 1 million participants.
Coral Collective is a participatory digital reef world where AI-generated coral personas act as emotional bridges to inspire climate action—especially around SDG 14: Life Below Water. In this 3-part series, we introduce our AI Coral Influencers, each representing a different coral species impacted by ocean warming, pollution, and reef collapse.
💬 In Part 1, meet: — Coralette, the host and AI guide of Coral Collective — Bryn (Brain Coral), wise and watchful — Khorn (Staghorn Coral), fast-growing but vulnerable — Elle (Elkhorn Coral), a structural protector of the reef
These characters are not just NPCs—they are designed to be emotionally intelligent, data-informed, and creatively engaging to help players see themselves as part of the ocean’s story. By combining science, art, and GenAI, Coral Collective reimagines how AI NPCs can deepen empathy and agency in immersive spaces.
🎙️ Featured at AWE 2025 Panel "AI NPCs in Embodied Forums: Humans & NPCs in Social, Education, and Business 3D Worlds" Our panel explores how NPCs like the Coral Collective Influencers can complement—not replace—human interaction while offering onboarding, environmental storytelling, and safe, purpose-driven engagement in virtual worlds.
🤝 Join the movement: Help us teach 1M creators to build 3D coral worlds using AI by 2030
Spill2Sparkle: Meta Horizon Mobile Game Contest Submission by the Sparkle Duck Brigade, a Women in Horizon group initiative for the Meta Horizon Mobile Game Competition, 2024.
The Sparkle Duck Brigade includes: Sara Mapelli Tink (TinksPlayground), Rhonda Taylor (BlackSandz Chosen), Yolanda Williams (IAMtheEVIDENCE), Laurie ONeill(Willowmoon Art, Pat Dooley (UtterlyOtter), and myself, Paige Dansinger (MetaversePaige).
Presented: Community Collaboration Panel, Ocean Day, Bit Basel, Miami Art Week, 2024. "Using Your Cosmic Voice for Social Responsible XR Storytelling," MIT Reality Hackathon, Boston, 2025. "Complementing Virtual Worlds with AI Audio," Love of AI, Virtual Event, 2 025.
AI Bird-Song in Infinite Trees, is a public place-making initiative in a virtual hand-drawn forest. Friends may share a long walk together. Listen for AI bird-song from your favorite birds in a hand-drawn virtual forest.
Infinite Trees
Infinite Trees
Enjoy a long walk with friends. View birds and butterflies in a natural environment. Birdsong created with AI.
VR Garden (New)
VR Garden (New)
Buzz, Buzz, Buzz. Collect pollen and make some honey. Become a bee and fly up to the beehive in this super-sweet world.
VR Garden: Plant Seeds Together
VR Garden: Plant Seeds Together
Created in partnership with Virtual World Society for Augmented World Expo (AWE), 2024. Plant and count seeds, play quests, get points!
Spill 2 Sparkle
Spill 2 Sparkle
Rescue. Clean. Release. Join the rescue mission to save animals impacted by an oil spill and bring coasts back to life.
Helsinki Immersive Sustainability Lab
Helinki Immersive Sustainability Lab
Created for Helsinki Immersive Suitability Lab. Reality Shakers, Virtual World Society, MIT Reality Hackathon, 2024. Portfolio - Virtual World Society
Women in Horizon (New 2024)
Women in Horizon (New 2024)
Women in Horizon’s new custom import world. Introducing Catalyst Commons, Pods, and more!
Black Hole
Black Hole
Hop into a Black Hole. Keep hopping to break reality and immerse yourself in a multidimensional metaverse world.
Media Lab Future
Media Lab Future
Visit Media Lab Future, where everyday is an intergalactic hackathon. Hack the Hack, MIT Reality Hackathon, 2022.
Women in Horizon (2021-2024)
Women in Horizon (2021-2024)
Visit the original community empowerment group in Meta Horizon Worlds, founded 2021. Inclusive, Diverse, and Progressive!
2024 Worlds included in "Using Your Cosmic Voice of Activation: Socially Responsible Storytelling and XR for Interdimensional Rebirth" with Akilah Martinez and Krystal Curley, MIT Reality Hackathon, 2025