Header image: HoneyBear Katherine — all rights belong to the owner.
Most talk about the metaverse is about technology. HoneyBear Katherine's work is about people.
Every week, Katherine L. Carter, known across virtual reality as HoneyBear Katherine, opens the doors of her own venues inside Meta Horizon Worlds, and every week people walk in, sit down and talk. A live podcast with a real audience. A voice room for those without a headset. Bingo night. A midweek hour of scripture. It is one of the clearest examples we know of a virtual business that runs on community rather than hype.
Who she is
Katherine is a writer, former teacher and community builder from the Rochester, New York area. She graduated with high honors from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and she has run her own gift business, Katherine's Gifts Etcetera, since 2011. She is also the author of Weight Of Dysfunction, a journal account of a woman in an abusive marriage.
Image: HoneyBear Katherine — all rights belong to the owner.
Through HBK777 Productions, she designs and runs immersive spaces in Meta Horizon Worlds and VRChat. Her signature look of purples, golds and pearls is recognizable the moment you arrive.
A weekly schedule, in virtual rooms
What sets Katherine apart is consistency. Her shows page reads like a small network's line-up, with every time listed in Eastern and converted for the rest of the country:
- HoneyBear Katherine's Haven: Fridays at 8:00 PM Eastern in HoneyBearKatherine's Grand Pavilion in Meta Horizon Worlds, and Mondays at 8:00 PM Eastern in Club Room. The main show: guests from every walk of life, real conversation and a live audience that talks back.
- HoneyBear Katherine's Word of Blessing, Where Scripture Meets the Heart: Wednesdays at 7:00 PM Eastern, live on YouTube.
- Bingo Under the Stars: Mondays and Thursdays at 9:00 PM and Fridays at 1:00 PM Eastern. Live, hosted, and everyone is welcome.
Image: HoneyBear Katherine — all rights belong to the owner.
Can't make it into the room? Her Watch live page carries the stream, and past shows live on the episodes page.
Encouragement, the practical kind
The Haven is a relationship podcast, and Katherine is clear about what it is for: encouragement that changes what somebody does on Monday. The show's topics keep returning to six subjects: intimacy and attraction, friendship, family and what we inherit, conflict and repair, healing and self-worth, and safety and respect.
That last one matters. Her site carries a full Harbor of Hope page of domestic-abuse hotlines and safety guidance, plus a help and resources directory covering crisis lines, legal help and digital safety. A venue that takes care of its audience outside the room is a venue people trust inside it.
Worlds of her own
Katherine does not just rent space in other people's worlds. She builds her own. Her Worlds page lists two:
- Serenity Cove, "a quiet stretch of water and mountains built for people who need somewhere to put their shoulders down."
- SunnyDale, a city she built and runs inside Meta Horizon Worlds.
Image: HoneyBear Katherine — all rights belong to the owner.
Image: HoneyBear Katherine — all rights belong to the owner.
If you have read our guide to building VR and AR event spaces, this is that guide brought to life by someone who hosts in her spaces every single week.
A voice in the wider VR conversation
Katherine shows up beyond her own rooms too. She joined the Trivirtualroundtable for Episode 55, "Meta Horizon Shake-Up: Is VR Dying… or Evolving?", and she has sat on a "What's Next for VR?" business panel alongside Glenda "GDeuce" Giles. In her Grand Pavilion she has hosted a discussion called Love Across Avatars. She was also a featured host at the Fourth Women's World Metaverse Retreat in November 2025, a three-day virtual gathering for women from around the world.
Why it matters
The metaverse has had no shortage of empty showpieces. What it needs is hosts. Katherine's model is simple and worth copying: a fixed schedule, rooms with a personality, a mix of serious conversation and plain fun, and care for the people who show up. That is how a digital venue becomes a place, and how a place becomes a community. It is the same idea behind the Decentraland events scene and every successful virtual storefront: people come for the space and stay for each other.
Visit honeybearkatherine.com for the full schedule, follow her on Facebook and YouTube, and drop into the Grand Pavilion some Friday night. Tell her Nexaria sent you.
Related reading: a feature on Sherrie Holmes, Women's World and Bravely Living TV in the Smith App Studio Journal, and what Kenyatta Rivera's Grown Folks Drama teaches about serialized social video on the PostPilot blog.
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