Look, if you had the opportunity to get railed by a foot+ of thick wolf dong (or the equivalent of whatever you’re into) in freakin’ VR, we all know you’d be registering and downloading it right now same as me :P
Quite the contrary! On the internet, I’m a hung and aggressive frisky wolf, with other cuddly and like-minded furs in many forms and spaces. But irl, I’m a frisky but anxious, timid, chubby, disabled geek.
The wolf sona is a much easier sell to potential partners :P
It’s the one platform no one talks about because it’s too gay/queer for corporate sensibilities. They want the queers and the gays to show up in June and then disappear again once July rolls around. VRChat is year-round, baby! They’ve got full-blown conventions in VRC and, unlike other platforms, they’re actually fairly well populated.
Nah it’s not because it’s too gay/queer, it’s just far too strange for most people.
The only person I ever knew IRL that regularly used VRChat was very… Uncomfortable to be around.
And the few times that I’ve used it, yeah there’s the people being normal and doing normal stuff, but there’s lots of people who regularly say and do very weird/inappropriate stuff.
It’s great that there is a large queer community in VRChat, and I understand that most people are prolly just normal ppl chilling, but I don’t think companies stay away from VRChat because of the queer community there tbh.
Hit the nail on the head. We all remember “Ugandan Knuckles”. The platform is populated by psychotic preteens. Of course it doesn’t have mainstream appeal.
I think HBO had a documentary style thing about VR Chat. I recall sleepily scrolling through it anyway. There was a woman who taught belly dancing in VRC I believe.
Before that I thought it was just kind of silly and gimmicky, but it’s actually quite interesting. I’d like to give it a whirl myself.
You don’t need VR for it, you can try it out in desktop mode if you want. I’d suggest steering away from the popular “hang-out” worlds like the Black Cat, but it’s fun. I would suggest rebinding the default keyboard controls for facial expressions though. They’re a bit clumsy. Also, some worlds are designed with VR in mind and may be difficult or impossible to play without VR (you’ll probably be fine as long as you aren’t trying to join one of the simulator worlds though).
Edit: additionally, if you want to hang out with people who will be the most helpful and welcoming, look for furry worlds. Furries tend to be the power users of the VR world (and virtual worlds in general) for obvious reasons. That said, be prepared to mute, report and block users, because furry worlds also tend to get the highest concentration of assholes, crashers (people with avatars designed to crash games) and quest kiddies. They tend to join and start screaming slurs at furries until they get banned or realize everyone’s blocked them and move on.
I like how most depictions of it I’ve seen seem pretty wholesome compared to other casual online gaming communities. Idk how accurate those depictions are, but most of them just seem to be regular people goofing around and being silly.
I think this is a valid question (just wanted to make that clear for others). In this context I’m using it to refer to anyone acting outside of social norms; so furries, egirls/eboys, weebs, Warhammer40k RPers, trans and enby men/women, men with female avatars, women with male avatars, packs of roving Ronald McDonalds, and yes, people who are gay in the normal sense.
Yeah, I would like multiple social VR world systems to become viable, both so there isn’t a monopoly and so there can be bigger uptake of people getting into VR.
That’d actually be sweet. There’d be two issues though. The first is that you’d need some kind of SDK for users to upload their own worlds and make their own avatar, and the second is that the server costs would likely be significantly more expensive than hosting something like a Lemmy instance.
I’m disappointed that virtual VR worlds never took off, but extremely relieved that Facebook didn’t do it.
I mean, VR Chat is still a thing. It’s not massive, but even 20k daily users isn’t nothing.
VRC is still a thing because they are all furries.
Source: …
Did you just use your masturbation habits as a source?
It’s called an expert opinion
Subject matter expert
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Oh I’m an expert all right~
Look, if you had the opportunity to get railed by a foot+ of thick wolf dong (or the equivalent of whatever you’re into) in freakin’ VR, we all know you’d be registering and downloading it right now same as me :P
I don’t make the news, I just report it.
I need to get back in to VR. For completely… unrelated… reasons… yeah.
That sounds terribly awkward
Quite the contrary! On the internet, I’m a hung and aggressive frisky wolf, with other cuddly and like-minded furs in many forms and spaces. But irl, I’m a frisky but anxious, timid, chubby, disabled geek.
The wolf sona is a much easier sell to potential partners :P
I prefer to call it a highly productive hobby.
Well, yeah, furries have a strong online presence. It’s not surprising for furries to be early adopters of a virtual world.
Furries make the internets go
VRChat. VRChat. VRChat.
It’s the one platform no one talks about because it’s too gay/queer for corporate sensibilities. They want the queers and the gays to show up in June and then disappear again once July rolls around. VRChat is year-round, baby! They’ve got full-blown conventions in VRC and, unlike other platforms, they’re actually fairly well populated.
Nah it’s not because it’s too gay/queer, it’s just far too strange for most people.
The only person I ever knew IRL that regularly used VRChat was very… Uncomfortable to be around.
And the few times that I’ve used it, yeah there’s the people being normal and doing normal stuff, but there’s lots of people who regularly say and do very weird/inappropriate stuff.
It’s great that there is a large queer community in VRChat, and I understand that most people are prolly just normal ppl chilling, but I don’t think companies stay away from VRChat because of the queer community there tbh.
Hit the nail on the head. We all remember “Ugandan Knuckles”. The platform is populated by psychotic preteens. Of course it doesn’t have mainstream appeal.
I to this day can’t hold my laughter when remembering the Ungandan Knuckles guy who rode on a little tank playing the USSR Anthem on full blast.
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I think HBO had a documentary style thing about VR Chat. I recall sleepily scrolling through it anyway. There was a woman who taught belly dancing in VRC I believe.
Before that I thought it was just kind of silly and gimmicky, but it’s actually quite interesting. I’d like to give it a whirl myself.
You don’t need VR for it, you can try it out in desktop mode if you want. I’d suggest steering away from the popular “hang-out” worlds like the Black Cat, but it’s fun. I would suggest rebinding the default keyboard controls for facial expressions though. They’re a bit clumsy. Also, some worlds are designed with VR in mind and may be difficult or impossible to play without VR (you’ll probably be fine as long as you aren’t trying to join one of the simulator worlds though).
Edit: additionally, if you want to hang out with people who will be the most helpful and welcoming, look for furry worlds. Furries tend to be the power users of the VR world (and virtual worlds in general) for obvious reasons. That said, be prepared to mute, report and block users, because furry worlds also tend to get the highest concentration of assholes, crashers (people with avatars designed to crash games) and quest kiddies. They tend to join and start screaming slurs at furries until they get banned or realize everyone’s blocked them and move on.
I like how most depictions of it I’ve seen seem pretty wholesome compared to other casual online gaming communities. Idk how accurate those depictions are, but most of them just seem to be regular people goofing around and being silly.
Wait, how is it gay?
I think this is a valid question (just wanted to make that clear for others). In this context I’m using it to refer to anyone acting outside of social norms; so furries, egirls/eboys, weebs, Warhammer40k RPers, trans and enby men/women, men with female avatars, women with male avatars, packs of roving Ronald McDonalds, and yes, people who are gay in the normal sense.
The general populous leans gay
Yeah, I would like multiple social VR world systems to become viable, both so there isn’t a monopoly and so there can be bigger uptake of people getting into VR.
Do you mean like each their thing or some sort of fediVRse?
I was speaking more the former, but the latter would be awesome if it was technologically viable.
That’d actually be sweet. There’d be two issues though. The first is that you’d need some kind of SDK for users to upload their own worlds and make their own avatar, and the second is that the server costs would likely be significantly more expensive than hosting something like a Lemmy instance.
Mozilla has something like this working (mozilla hubs) and matrix is also working on a federated vr prototype which u can try out.
What about real VR worlds? Or virtual real reality worlds?