Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: VRChat
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Remote control cars for VRChat players are the latest amazing user-made innovation in VRChat, and creator Chris B. is not just content to make them amazingly physics-based, but she even shot this pitch-perfect Saturday morning cartoons-style commercial-but-with-furries to promote them too. As the ad mentions, they run on VRChat's internal Udon scripting system (specifically, the…
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For some reason this huge news hasn't yet been picked up by any of the major tech outlets that I can see, but VRChat just raised $80 million in funding: The VRChat team is excited to announce that we have closed an $80M Series D investment round. This latest financing was led by Anthos Capital,…
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Here's results of my survey aimed at Quest owners, asking if they would buy VR apps for their headset if it contains ads. (As Facebook recently announced would start happening soon.) Of the 50 respondents, a majority answered that they would never buy or use a Quest app with ads, while a much smaller 18%…
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Since launching last week, Happy Hill Dog Park in VRChat has been swarming with avatars of all kinds, playing fetch and applying copious force-feedback enabled head pats with the AI-powered pooches. Dr. Kim, the director on the project, told me Monday that it's already attracted over 43,000 visits, and been favorited 7000 times. And while…
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The dogs in Happy Hill Dog Park are waiting for you to come play! Available now on #VRChat for both PC and Quest. Environment and animation design by @jendaviswilson , AI & logic by @CyanLaser . pic.twitter.com/mpJ87FXXx7 — Studio CyFi (@StudioCyfi) May 19, 2021 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Click here to visit Happy Hill Dog Park in VRChat,…
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Click here to take the survey! Famed VRChat reporter Syrmor and I are running a short VRC user survey to get a better understanding of who's a member of the growing virtual world and why. In a week or two, we'll hopefully report the results on his social media channels and of course here's on…
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Rec Room recently reported over 1 million monthly users and a higher peak concurrency than VRChat. But when it comes to the two leading social VR worlds, VRChat seems to have a crucial edge: A far more active and ambitious creative community. That statement is my personal estimation, to be sure. And to be fair,…
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Just vibing and grinding in Shibuya Terminal ☺️ Having a little too much fun making the #jsrf world in #vrchat 😆 (tribute to Doggface208's amazing vid last year 😁 ) pic.twitter.com/a31pSnLvat — Lakuza (@LakuzaVR) April 27, 2021 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js This is a fun VRChat-based tribute to the beloved Doggface Fleetwood Mac skating video. Which would be…
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Source: This user-made VRChat concurrency tracker by @OhNoItsFusl It's been building for many months, and last weekend, it finally happened: Social VR/virtual world VRChat surpassed Second Life's concurrent user rates, probably for the first time: When 40,540 people were logged into SL, VRChat counted 42,513 online users. This news via longtime virtual world explorer Adeon…
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VRChat devs just dropped a ridonkulously huge grab bag of announcements on Twitch, both upcoming and experimental; I pulled some highlights onto my YouTube, and my VRC correspondent Adeon Writer watched live and took copious notes. Most exciting to the user community was probably what's featured above: Avatar-to-avtar dynamics, which enable users to "physically" interact…
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