Kokstad raised VR artist, Rick Treweek, together with his team for Uncanny Alley: A New Day, a collaboration between Cape Town immersive studio Virtual Worlds Company and Los Angeles-based Ferryman Collective, won Outstanding Emerging Media Program at the 78th Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday, 5 September 2026.
The immersive theatre production is performed live inside VRChat, a social VR platform, and is set in Uncanny Alley, an original virtual universe created by South African artist and worldbuilder Rick Treweek.
Treweek was in the audience at Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater to collect the Emmy on stage with the Ferryman Collective team.
“This one is for home,” says Treweek, who is known in virtual reality as MetaRick. “South Africa does not wait for perfect conditions. We build under load-shedding skies and still send a city across the ocean.”
His mom was the first person he told about the win, in the middle of the night in South Africa. “And then everyone in Kokstad knew,” he laughs.
Treweek is bursting with plans for Uncanny Alley, from toys to 360-degree dome experiences to Steam games.
But first, he says, “I’ve got to figure out how to fly with this trophy. It’s rather heavy.”
If you would like to learn more about Rick’s project, there is a trailer available on YouTube as well as video of Treweek explaining Uncanny Alley: A New Day. For more information, visit https://www.uncannyalley.io/.
- Kokstad raised VR artist & worldbuilder Rick Treweek with the Emmy for Outstanding Emerging Media Program.
