Spatial is shutting down. On May 28, Jinha Lee sent a note to the creator community: the Free and Pro tiers sunset July 27, 2026. Enterprise stays. Everything I loved about it does not.

I've built worlds across Spatial, Horizon, and the long-dead Mozilla Hubs (RIP). So this one stings a little.

Inside iSEOULBLOCK

iSEOULBLOCK. That's the one I keep coming back to. Jayhan took a piece of virtual real estate — an NFT minted by Polycount and Trashand back in the day — and remixed it into something else entirely. Neon-soaked, lived-in, beautiful. A Seoul block you could walk through.

That's the part people who never put the headset on don't get. It wasn't a picture of a place. It was a place. You stood in it. You turned your head and it kept going. Light pooled in the right spots. The detail held up close. Jayhan built a world with the care of someone who actually lived in it, and you felt that the second you spawned in.

This is the magic that disappears when the servers go dark. Not a webpage you can archive. A space you walked through, gone.

The digital properties were real assets — NFTs, owned and traded, designed by people like Polycount and Trashand who treated virtual land like land. Jayhan proved what that land was worth: not the token, the room you could build on top of it. Follow Jayhan on X to see where that talent goes next.

Not The End Of The Space

This is the end of Spatial. It is not the end of shared VR.

The Apple Vision Pro is that good. The displays, the passthrough, the way digital objects sit in your actual room — it's the headset everything else was reaching for. And here's the quiet irony: Spatial never supported the best headset in the world. They built beautiful worlds for every device except the one that finally made the medium feel real.

It was an amazing time for VR. The avatars, the experiments, the early communities, worlds like iSEOULBLOCK you could walk into. None of that goes away because one platform's servers do. The talent scatters. It always does. And it builds the next thing on hardware that deserves it.

Jayhan and I sat down for a livestream a while back and talked through all of it — the worlds, the work, where the medium was headed. Here's the whole conversation.