He’s been blogging about it for over a year now, profiling scores of people who’ve built gorgeous, intricate, or bizarre environments. At one point, he even happened upon a woman who was homeless in the real world but had a massive compound in the the virtual one. This week he reports on a new find: A house that has been designed to represent the internal state of a person with schizophrenia. It was created by a university mental-health researcher, and is based on descriptions of hallucinations taken from interviews with real-life schizophrenia patients. The idea, of course, is to do something that only a virtual-reality game can do — which is to allow outsiders to experience, first-hand, the terrifying weirdness of a schizophrenic episode. Au toured and it wrote an excellent description: