Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: VRChat
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This announcement from VRChat is impressive for many reasons: Mocopi is supported in VRChat! We teamed up with Sony to integrate their mobile motion capture solution, on both PCVR and Quest! Watch Mocopi in action above. It's a much more user-friendly way of doing motion capture, and relatively affordable at $358:
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As a fun way of exploring VRChat and checking out the creative power of the platform this weekend, here's five VRChat worlds inspired on famous video game environments. (The above of course is City 17 from the Half-Life franchise, though it's currently defunct.) Here's five more recommended and documented by Bradlee101, one of my favorite…
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As teased back in August, here's S.Y.N.C., a short feature movie shot entirely in VRChat. Written, directed, edited, and performed by "Legend50210" (let's call him Legend for short), it's a fun sci-fi actioner with slick production values and impressive fight choreography — even more impressive, when you realize Legend plays all the characters. "The loops…
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my litmus test for "is your VR metaverse app even remotely as good as vrchat" is "are furries holding actual exercise classes in it" pic.twitter.com/Pd2mFPbr0k — Aura🥨🥨🥨 (@MOOMANiBE) October 11, 2022 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Update, 10/19: VR Fitness & Biking founder Aigey just sent me background on the founding of his workout group in VRChat during the…
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Update, October 17: Carmack later acknowledged that Rec Room and VRChat do make money for Meta via 30% commissions on in-app payments. However, as most free-to-play multiplayer games/worlds monetize at under 10% (usually much less), it's still likely the case that the vast majority of Rec Room/VRChat players on Quest aren't paying Meta anything through…
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Neomance is another great VRChat explorer. Like Bradlee, he explores the platforms' many worlds, takes breathtaking photos of his favorites, and posts them in a dazzling cascade on his Twitter. Like many — most? nearly all? — of the active VRChat community, he discovered VRChat through "random YouTube videos, and I got on to socialize…
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World name: もいらんどのラビットライド#VRChat #VRChat_world紹介 pic.twitter.com/2hUSx7LuCr — Bradlee (@Bradlee1011) September 9, 2022 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Bradlee is a superb Twitter account for anyone excited by the potential and creative community of VRChat, but for that very reason, is wondering which user-made VRChat worlds among tens of thousands they should visit first. That's where Bradlee's Twitter comes in.…
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\ S.Y.N.C. is an upcoming machinma shot entirely in VRChat, and it's among the most amazing that I've seen — along with the professional polish, the many fight scenes (via guns, swords, and full contact kung fu) are impressively fluid and articulated. And as befits most metaverse projects with this level of excellence, it's a…
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Thanks to #VRChat's new Horizon Adjust feature, you can do cool stuff! Here's an homage to the movie 'Labyrinth' I made to demonstrate! pic.twitter.com/OZvVoiovCK — Dr Ocelot (@doktorocelot) August 1, 2022 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js VRChat's new Horizon Adjust feature may have been mainly added to address usability concerns — it allows someone who's confined to a bed…
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Update, 8/3: Yesterday's peak concurrency was 70,478 — well over 6,000 concurrent more users than last week Tuesday, when the protest started. As I suspected, the trend remains: VRChat gonna VRChat. As I suspected last week, the "protest" by some VRChat users over the company's ban on modified clients has all the indications of a…
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