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Update, 4/21: Avatar Dynamics is now live. Check out this post for tutorials and community-created samples of this avatar-to-avatar tech!

As promised last year, VRChat recently updated its avatar dynamics to enable far more interactivity between avatars and the virtual world, and (even more key) avatar-to-avatar.   Now in open beta, the VRChat community is already coming up with some fun and zany application of the technology — there's even this project to physically hug across the metaverse through haptics — and at least a couple user-made tutorials:

"Having a good idea of how the Unity animation controller system works would help quite a bit as far as making complicated stuff with Avatar Dynamics," Ben Rainwolf, who sent over the above tutorial, advises.

Another tutorial and some other examples below!

Thanks to #AvatarDynamics, @MarinoDev's 'Avatar PVP' system can now be fully realized in #VRChat!

Here's a video showcasing some of the shenanigans we got up to while testing~🤜💥🤛 pic.twitter.com/JukrbfLt4A

— Salbug (@SalbugVR) March 7, 2022

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Slap on 🧀 #protogen #VRChat #avatardynamics pic.twitter.com/CJDewwZyTQ

— Kimmix (@kimmix00) April 15, 2022

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Much more at #AvatarDynamics on Twitter.