Meta Horizon Worlds Spotlight: Foundations of Horizon Gallery

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Mar 24, 2023

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Welcome back to our weekly spotlight on the people building for Meta Horizon Worlds and their amazing creations.

Last week, we talked with gungangoose, the creator of The Tea Party, a terrific world where you can nibble on macarons and tea sandwiches, or play some bocce before wandering into the lovely gardens.

This week, we returned to Worlds' roots, stopping in on omniparker’s Foundations of Horizon Gallery. This is a place to “meet” a bunch of the first Worlds builders and, if you desire, hop into their creations.

We are nothing if we don’t understand where we came from—that’s as true in Worlds as anywhere. And that’s why omniparker is paying homage to some of the OG creators with the simple, yet powerful Foundations of Horizon Gallery.

Here, you can hang out alone or with friends and harken back to the earliest days of Worlds, when it was in beta, and you still needed an invitation to explore. But if there weren’t any worlds, there wouldn’t be any reason to explore. Chicken, meet egg, you know? So some intrepid pioneers were the first ones to build for Worlds, creating the locations and experiences that paved the way for so many that have followed.

With Foundations of Horizon Gallery, omniparker is shining the spotlight on 23 of those people and their creations, including highly popular places like The Soapstone Comedy Club, Waffle World, and This Feels Familiar. For each, there’s a portrait, a description, and a portal.

But lest you think that omniparker believes that a mere 23 creators are enough to encapsulate Worlds’s history, think again. On the far side of the giant hall is a door to Unseen Heroes of Horizon Gallery, an almost identical hall celebrating 18 more creators from the Worlds beta.

Ultimately, the message here is that everyone in Worlds should remember where it began. There may be more places to visit today, with a wider variety of options—but if it hadn't been for those earliest worlds, none of what we see and love now would have been possible. Respect!