Singularity
The Corruption of data over time is unseen and for the vast majority just replaced. Thankfully there are efforts to preserve and a multitude of people will contribute to archival.
Unfortunately we can’t save everything and things will decay and corrupt and eventually become lost.
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Here are the first images that I ever took of a map I love dearly, called ‘Singularity of Space’
Home
The world resides within the platform VRChat, The world features a blueish purple galaxy skybox with all the mesh using a refraction shader to provide alterative angles of the skybox.
Notable landmarks include the campfire which is accessible just to the left of your initial joining of the world. Just left of that is a floating house, with another sister house on the opposite side. The platform you arrive on has several tree structures and what look to be wood logs and rocks and a tree stump. A shattered pathway leads to columns that are floating and rotating around a prism that rotates in the opposite direction, as you navigate this first area, you will notice how the gravity of the world is lessened and you have a floaty jump as if you were on the moon. If you’re skilled enough and have the patience the columns provided a wonderful jumping puzzle was available. Though all this time I’ve only managed to complete that challenge a handful of times. Time wasn’t good to these experiences as the collision boxes have become out of sync with the local mesh.
The time I’ve given to this world is hundreds of hours. All of which were spent over various years. In the very early days I decided to sleep within vr I slept there, the dreamlike landscape that I would wake up to filled me with such joy. And of course panic. I would dream of what it would be like to stay here suspended in time amongst the stars. But mostly it provided me peace,
Night Meeting (Verges of Time)
by Astropilot
Droning on filling the space as an anchor. And one that whenever I hear I am within the Singularity of Space pulling me back into those moments of peace whenever and wherever I may need.
Additional to the world is the resident Black hole, which can be viewed from the first platform the Black hole has a distortion shader to it and can be very sickening to view within vr as the image warps and bends. Surrounding the black hole is more refracted mesh that would orbit and shift and change the view of the surrounding galaxy.
And this was beautiful.
When I first saw this spectacle to say I was awestruck is too few of words to describe the absolute wonderment of what I was seeing and experiencing. For the first time I had the moment in feeling like I could see all galaxies, all worlds and all possibilities. I felt vast and surrounded in a torrent of magic, and I cried. Nothing and nowhere else could I experience this. I had lived and made enough choices to bring me to that exact moment and view. I had lived to see something with my own eyes that I can only imagine what doing your first space walk must feel like.
Goodbye
I cried for a second time on May 5 th 2025 when I was showing the world to a new friend of mine.
The rotations had stopped.
A stillness that felt more ridged then any stone, a simple set of transform keyed frames hitting the end of their sequence. A freezing and rest of a dance that showed endless possibilities.
Still. Silent. Gone.
The loss of an old friend…
The sorrow I felt was uncontrollable, unwanted, and also a known inevitability.
Over the years I’ve seen the effects of decay, the way the world looked beginning to shift and alter. The first subtle sign was the post processing of the world. Initially there was a bit of darkening to the map and a deeper richer tint of purple, one day after some update to VRChat’s live platform it brighten and lack the familiar feelings it used to.
The various windows on the buildings would fail to render as they once did leaving only a few denizen lights on. Thinking back it’s quite a poetic happenstance.
The world audio changed as well. Once global and enveloping with a softness now had an identifiable source near the entry.
Watching the world I love show it’s age and decay was difficult. I would share the experience with various close friends when asked my favorite world, or if need for “I know a place” was ever needed. And each time I would tell the tales of my experience with them as I am doing so now.
The connection of which sharing something profoundly important and close with others is a feeling of trust that is quite undeniable truth that is so incredibly pure. I hope that you get to experience it often.
Thank you
VinylSmyk the world creator has made two worlds on November 9 th, 2018 - the ‘Singularity of Space’ and ‘Cory the House in the House’ and from as far as I can tell never returned to VRChat, at least not under the same account that is.
More then anything I wish I could have thanked them directly but if they ever do see this message,
Thank you so much for being an inspiration to me and others. For giving your time and creation, even if on a whim, for the world to experience. Without these experiences and memories I hold dear today, I wouldn't be the creator or the person that I am. I wish and hope you only the best on your journey.
I also hope that to those who have read up to this point that you also find your own Singularity of Space.
For myself I’ve been on my own journey to create and craft Virtual experiences that inspire others to feel the type of feelings that I felt that first day viewing the black hole.
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