Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: VRChat
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Above: Merlin's home office working for VRChat Inc. Great update to UdonSharp, the hugely popular user-made compiler that converts C# to VRChat's Udon scripting language: Recently, VRChat the company officially hired "Merlin", UdonSharp's creator, to work directly and full-time for the company, and implement his code into the official development software. "In the near future,…
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Good reader discussion in last week's post about VRChat's new peak usage numbers. This growth inspired "Timo" to ask why so many VRChat avatars seem so low detail, as compared to Second Life: I read many comments here recently about how VRChat uses more modern technology, custom shaders from Unity etc. Which is supposed to…
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Chart annotations by Adeon – click to embiggenate VRChat hit a huge milestone in the final hours of 2021, when the company and community host a widescale New Year's Eve party across the platform. As you can see from the chart above, peak concurrency on the last day of the year reached as high as…
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Cool upcoming feature for VRChat to keep your eye on in early 2022: Avatar dynamics, designed to enable for more interactivity between avatars and the world, and (even more key) avatars to avatars. "[I]t offers a ton of new options for people to explore that are into avatar development," as top VRC community creator Lakuza…
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Via Adeon, who knows what's what with VRChat, here's a fairly technical dive into the unexpected miracle of VRChat's design and engineering, based on a year's worth of exploring by tech YouTuber CNLohr. As he explains, many of the development decisions the VRChat team made don't make much sense from a traditional approach, but they…
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Click here to experience Magic Heist in VRChat, a new community-made game world/ride that seems ideal for exploring over the Thanksgiving holidays. Co-developed by acclaimed VRC creators Fins, CyanLaser, and Lakuza, it is, to judge by the highly-polished trailer (watch above), pretty much indistinguishable in quality to a big budget console game for the family.…
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Click here to visit the showroom, but to be honest, it's not much more than what you see above — an experimental deployment from an R&D lab associated with Hyundai, it looks like. (And Google has no word about it having some kind of official launch or ribbon cutting, so apparently not a marketing project.)…
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Data via VRChat Status Last weekend VRChat hit what looks to be another all-time peak concurrency record for the platform, crossing over 55,000 users online at the same time (see above data from VRChat Status, a user-run concurrency tracker). Much of that record seems attributable to a VRChat-based furry conference promoted by VRChat the company.…
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"VRChat has much of the same discovery issues that've plagued Second Life," notes Adeon Writer, a denizen of both worlds, responding to my observation that Nissan's VRChat marketing campaign doesn't seem to attract many visitors. "Mainly, as there are more and more places to visit, it becomes harder and harder to become discovered and retain…
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Nissan seems to be the biggest real world brand to deploy a virtual marketing campaign in VRChat, the would-be Metaverse: Nissan Crossing, in Tokyo’s Ginza district… has been recreated in stunning virtual reality showcasing the all-new Ariya electric crossover. The virtual gallery can be found under the name “NISSAN CROSSING”* on the social VR platform…
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