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1. leap motion · midjourney-quests · 2010–2021 (approximate)

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     "dates": "2010–2021",
     "detail": "leap motion — holz and buckwald's twelve-year hand-tracking company: the ~$80 controller, orion vr tracking, the open-source project north star headset, two collapsed apple acquisitions, then the ~$30m sale to ultrahaptics (ultraleap) in 2019. holz stayed cto until ~august 2021. 'the right product at the wrong time' — and the spatial-computing agenda midjourney inherited.",
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2. society for science · midjourney-quests · 2020– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2020–",
     "detail": "society for science — holz joined the national leadership council in 2020 and is now a board of trustees member; midjourney sponsors regeneron isef's 'technology enhances the arts' award, and holz attended isef 2025. he is a 2006 isef alum — the circle closed.",
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3. midjourney magazine · midjourney-quests · 2023-03– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2023-03–",
     "detail": "midjourney magazine — a $4/mo print zine of top-rated community images plus interviews, announced the same day as v5. holz: 'we thought it would be fun, and the community agreed, so we did it.' an ai lab shipping ink on paper.",
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4. niji・journey × spellbrush · midjourney-quests · 2022-11– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2022-11–",
     "detail": "niji・journey — the anime/2d model line and ios/android app co-built with spellbrush, the sf/tokyo yc-w18 studio behind waifu labs and arrowmancer (~30 people; cory li, ruwen liu, haitao mao). closed beta november 2022; niji 5, niji 6, niji v7 followed. the collaboration's terms are undisclosed.",
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5. rooms · midjourney-quests · 2024-05– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2024-05–",
     "detail": "rooms — private collaborative web spaces (for members past 100 images) mirrored to discord channels. the community's first home on midjourney's own property, a year before the web opened to everyone.",
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     "status": "continuing",
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6. patchwork · midjourney-quests · 2024-12– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2024-12–",
     "detail": "patchwork — the storytelling lab's multiplayer infinite canvas for worldbuilding, mixing llms and image models; research preview december 2024 under max kreminski. the world-model agenda's first public artifact.",
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     "status": "active",
     "title": "patchwork",
     "url": "https://patchwork.midjourney.com"
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7. midjourney tv · midjourney-quests · 2025-07– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2025-07–",
     "detail": "midjourney tv — a 24/7 stream of top community-made videos at midjourney.tv and on youtube, plus personalized feeds. the v1 video model's built-in programming.",
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8. the 'orb' hardware program · midjourney-quests · 2024–2026 (approximate)

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     "dates": "2024–2026",
     "detail": "the hardware program — abbas hired december 2023; 'we're officially getting into hardware' august 2024; office-hours reporting described 3d data capture and a project nicknamed 'orb.' what it produced was not a consumer device but the medical scanner — whether 'orb' survived as a separate track is unconfirmed.",
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9. midjourney medical and the scanner · midjourney-quests · 2026-06– (approximate)

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     "dates": "2026-06–",
     "detail": "midjourney medical — the 'secret hardware project' revealed june 17, 2026: the midjourney scanner, a water-immersion full-body ultrasound-ct on 40 butterfly network modules (~½mm tissue detail, one-minute scan goal), plus a 24/7 spa at 300 grant ave, union square — 23,000 sq ft, four floors, ten-year lease, opening target end-2027. butterfly's sec filing pegs the supply agreement at $74m over five years. roadmap claims — 50,000+ scanners by ~2031, 'avoid 30% of all deaths' — are company goals, not results.",
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     "url": "https://www.midjourney.com/medical"
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10. the holodeck / the sims · midjourney-quests · 2024– (approximate)

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      "dates": "2024–",
      "detail": "the holodeck — office-hours reporting describes a 3d world project (~60fps camera-motion rendering, separate from the video model) and the long-game 'sims' vision: 'the final creative medium,' where there's 'no hard distinction between creators and players.' unshipped as of september 2026.",
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11. the china episode · midjourney-quests · 2023-05 (month)

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      "dates": "2023-05",
      "detail": "midjourney china — the murky episode: a wechat post from a nanjing joint venture announced a qq-based beta and was deleted; april office-hours notes had mentioned qq expansion and channel admins reportedly confirmed a closed beta. whether an official qq beta persisted was never resolved in reporting.",
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12. the recap writers · midjourney-quests · 2022– (approximate)

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      "dates": "2022–",
      "detail": "the recap ecosystem — no official office-hours transcripts exist, so the record lives in community writeups: nick st. pierre's relays, imagine weekly, 'enthusiastically midjourney,' and the linkedin/medium recap circuit. 'miss journey' — the recurring default female face in early models — is the community's own coinage.",
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13. the moderator corps · midjourney-quests · 2021– (approximate)

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      "dates": "2021–",
      "detail": "the volunteer moderator corps — ~40 guides and moderators listed by handle on the 2022 about page, keeping order in what became the largest server discord ever hosted (~21m members). discord had to engineer past its own 1m-member cap to hold it.",
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