Wagner James Au / New World Notes

If you've seen the hit movie Kingsman, you'll remember the amazingly choreographed church gunfight between dozens of combatants which plays out in a single, deranged take. (Watch here.) Now watch a segment of that scene recreated in VRChat with eleven people in real time, wearing Star Wars-themed avatars. ("I promised the person who was leading it as our MC that we'd make it Star Wars themed for Star Wars day," the director explains to me.)

It's hard for me to process how impressive this is. To shoot it, each of these eleven players had to log in from around the world, perform separately in full-body VR rigs, and somehow, while hundreds or thousands of miles apart, still coordinate this group choreography that requires split second timing.

The director is "Legend50210" (let's call him Legend for short), who back in 2022, created and starred in this cool machinima shot in VRChat, with the fight scenes recorded in a full VR rig. Since then, Legend has continued building on his practice to turn VRChat into a platform for making machinima — and has also turned his SYNC Studios into a VRChat community of like-minded players/machinma makers:

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