Nah, VR’s still cool. It’s just that everyone uses it for VRChat aka “we don’t talk about the gay trans furry egirl who ERPs Warhammer 40k in the corner”.
Edit: turns out whenever you give a human the option between being a soulless, pantsless avatar and whatever the fuck they want, the human will always choose the gay trans furry egirl over being only rendered from the waist up. Corporations like brand safety. Humans, do not. That’s why vrchat is so successful. You can be as gay, trans, furry and/or egirl/boy as your heart desires. You can be you.
Edit 2: because sometimes I think I’m done and then I’m not: the most frustrating thing is how everyone pretends VRChat doesn’t exist, despite being one of the the most, if not the most successful VR social platform. The only conclusion I can come to is that people disregard it because either it’s A) too gay/queer, or B) it’s not “”“serious”“”.
You don’t hear about brand deals with VRChat. You don’t hear about how Balenciaga or Louis Vuitton are opening VRC worlds. You don’t hear about how IBM or Microsoft are holding virtual meetings in VRC. Why? Because VRC caters to the user first. If Microsoft wants to make a corporate VRC world or network of worlds, I’m sure VRC would let them. However if Microsoft were to tell VRC to reign in the gays, I’m pretty sure VRC would tell them to get fucked. That’s a big chunk of their community they’re about to piss off.
Hell, based on some of the most recent updates, it appears VRC is moving towards further relaxing their already fairly relaxed content TOS as they’re starting to add ways of age-gating instances (currently vrc has rules against nudity and erp, but they honestly don’t care and only bother enforcing it if someone reports it). That’s not to say that the VRC team is good and holy, they’ve made some seriously controversial changes (like implementing EAC to stop people from modding the game without first making sure they had official support for the popular modded features). However, unlike Meta’s Horizon Worlds or Linden Labs’ Project Sansar (VR second life) they seem to give a fuck about the community and embrace the weirdness.
Tangentially, the fact that Linden Labs didn’t learn from Second Life and decided to sanitize its VR successor is such a bizarre decision. They could have run away with VR, but all the second life users looking to upgrade to VR saw that Sansar was going to be sanitized, said “hell no” and went to VRChat.
Lol “everyone” being a bunch of dumfounded dipshits that didn’t understand the technology nor did they understand the target audience nor the actual sliver of market share that VR contains due to the technical and financial restrictions of said technology… Muppets in a box
Yeah they could have literally just asked any gamer. Most people I know with vr headsets don’t use them, they’re currently an expensive gimmick to play beatsaber on occasion until you get motion sick.
I mean, gamers were the ones to hype it up in the first place. When Oculus had a puking machine with wires sticking out of it, the people hyping it up were the Carmacks of the world, and by proxy all the gamers saying “maybe this time they’ll figure it out”.
In fairness, they got it pretty far along, but it was never going to be a primary way of interacting with computers or anything else.
To be fair, while that statement is still largely true, at has at least gotten somewhat better; the lower end of VR headsets can be gotten for $3-500 instead of $1000 last I looked into them (bought one a few months ago as my first while cool was a bit too uncomfortable and limited in capability for what I wanted), and have improved in quality over the first couple generations of the hardware. Still not cheap, especially for an entertainment device with somewhat limited catalog of games/media, and still kinda annoying to get set up each time I want to use it (though some of that comes from using mine wired to my PC instead of it’s onboard processor, which adds some steps to connect it properly)
How the hell did it have such an insane valuation?
Because the stock market is not based on logic and reason, but vibes. Sure hope we don’t base the productivity of our entire society around that.
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Nah, VR’s still cool. It’s just that everyone uses it for VRChat aka “we don’t talk about the gay trans furry egirl who ERPs Warhammer 40k in the corner”.
Edit: turns out whenever you give a human the option between being a soulless, pantsless avatar and whatever the fuck they want, the human will always choose the gay trans furry egirl over being only rendered from the waist up. Corporations like brand safety. Humans, do not. That’s why vrchat is so successful. You can be as gay, trans, furry and/or egirl/boy as your heart desires. You can be you.
Edit 2: because sometimes I think I’m done and then I’m not: the most frustrating thing is how everyone pretends VRChat doesn’t exist, despite being one of the the most, if not the most successful VR social platform. The only conclusion I can come to is that people disregard it because either it’s A) too gay/queer, or B) it’s not “”“serious”“”.
You don’t hear about brand deals with VRChat. You don’t hear about how Balenciaga or Louis Vuitton are opening VRC worlds. You don’t hear about how IBM or Microsoft are holding virtual meetings in VRC. Why? Because VRC caters to the user first. If Microsoft wants to make a corporate VRC world or network of worlds, I’m sure VRC would let them. However if Microsoft were to tell VRC to reign in the gays, I’m pretty sure VRC would tell them to get fucked. That’s a big chunk of their community they’re about to piss off.
Hell, based on some of the most recent updates, it appears VRC is moving towards further relaxing their already fairly relaxed content TOS as they’re starting to add ways of age-gating instances (currently vrc has rules against nudity and erp, but they honestly don’t care and only bother enforcing it if someone reports it). That’s not to say that the VRC team is good and holy, they’ve made some seriously controversial changes (like implementing EAC to stop people from modding the game without first making sure they had official support for the popular modded features). However, unlike Meta’s Horizon Worlds or Linden Labs’ Project Sansar (VR second life) they seem to give a fuck about the community and embrace the weirdness.
Tangentially, the fact that Linden Labs didn’t learn from Second Life and decided to sanitize its VR successor is such a bizarre decision. They could have run away with VR, but all the second life users looking to upgrade to VR saw that Sansar was going to be sanitized, said “hell no” and went to VRChat.
hey some of us use it for racing / flight simulation!
Lol “everyone” being a bunch of dumfounded dipshits that didn’t understand the technology nor did they understand the target audience nor the actual sliver of market share that VR contains due to the technical and financial restrictions of said technology… Muppets in a box
Yeah they could have literally just asked any gamer. Most people I know with vr headsets don’t use them, they’re currently an expensive gimmick to play beatsaber on occasion until you get motion sick.
I mean, gamers were the ones to hype it up in the first place. When Oculus had a puking machine with wires sticking out of it, the people hyping it up were the Carmacks of the world, and by proxy all the gamers saying “maybe this time they’ll figure it out”.
In fairness, they got it pretty far along, but it was never going to be a primary way of interacting with computers or anything else.
It’s funny because that statement could also have been said about 1997. VR was gonna be such a big deal.
It’s just way too expensive and hard to run for the average person. It’s crazy how short sighted they had to have been to let that happen. Ha
It’s not that expensive, people buy TVs for 5000+, it’s just very inconvenient for pretty much everything except games that are made for it.
To be fair, while that statement is still largely true, at has at least gotten somewhat better; the lower end of VR headsets can be gotten for $3-500 instead of $1000 last I looked into them (bought one a few months ago as my first while cool was a bit too uncomfortable and limited in capability for what I wanted), and have improved in quality over the first couple generations of the hardware. Still not cheap, especially for an entertainment device with somewhat limited catalog of games/media, and still kinda annoying to get set up each time I want to use it (though some of that comes from using mine wired to my PC instead of it’s onboard processor, which adds some steps to connect it properly)
Anything can be valued at any figures. The people selling something will make up the biggest number they can.
Very few people ever sincerely believed it, and now nobody.
The pandemic gave them the stupid idea that we would willingly isolate ourselves in a profitable virtual world.