By 2025, Williams had pivoted to a more radical concept: —a framework not for escaping the world, but for re-skinning it. The phrase “reality virtually new,” which first appeared in a leaked design document for the RVN protocol, captures the paradox at the heart of Williams’ work: that something fabricated (virtual) can simultaneously produce unprecedented authenticity (new reality).
The recurring motif of a mirrored mask appears in each chamber, reflecting the user’s avatar in increasingly distorted ways. The mask evolves based on the user’s gaze patterns, suggesting that identity in VR is co‑created by both system and self.
The old problem of VR was isolation. CRP allows objects and even social contracts to move between layers of reality. For example, a sword forged in a “reality virtually new” session can be willed into physical AR space, where it appears as a holographic blade, or into a dream-logic space that only triggers during sleep. Williams calls CRP “the blockchain of experience”—not for currency, but for continuity.