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.
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!