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According to steam I'm several thousand hours into my VR usage if I add up a few of my favorite 'games'. I completely agree with you that it reminds me of the
by cagenut 6y ago
According to steam I'm several thousand hours into my VR usage if I add up a few of my favorite 'games'.
I completely agree with you that it reminds me of the very early internet. Like the late 90s, when bbs's and prodigy and compuserve and aol and "the internet" were all a jumbled mix.
If you haven't yet make sure to check out Rec Room. Its in a very similar space to VRChat and FBHorizon, but their gimmick is they've invested heavily in "maker" tools so that users can build their own "rooms" (levels) including customized 'game' logic. Its really a VR IDE they just don't call it that.
- emerged 6y agoI tried Rec Room and everyone sounded 11 years old. There was one guy standing there talking about killing himself. Was that atypical of what you find on there?
- cagenut 6y agoI'm pretty sure thats exactly how the middle aged dudes when I was a teenager described usenet.
- emerged 6y agoNot really, I remember usenet and other young technologies being populated by older people. I literally mean they sounded 11 or younger. Voices not yet having gone through puberty, by a decent margin of years. Several remarked that I was using a voice mod to make my voice deeper. I left feeling uncomfortable.
- throwaway413 6y agoEh, yes and no. Few times I've been on there, I've experienced similar to what you've mentioned. But another few times, I've had some great experiences with clearly adults - notably, playing pickup HORSE basketball games in the lobby.
- emerged 6y agoTo be fair, I did play basketball and ping pong with a few of them before I left. It felt like I was politely entertaining someone who was depressed and needed a friend.