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I'm kinda torn between the current top comment pointing out how immersive everything is, the current top reply remarking about the eyebrow-raising amount of fur
by exikyut 5y ago
I'm kinda torn between the current top comment pointing out how immersive everything is, the current top reply remarking about the eyebrow-raising amount of furry representation, and this perspective.
The graphics are indeed really bad.
The background noise also seems to be poorly managed.
And the avatars are visually striking just to the point of being very distracting.
But I have not the first clue how to fix any of these issues. The graphics have to exceed 70fps cannot drop frames or you risk users getting nausea (and not using the platform!), the audio chat works just like every other audio chat out there - badly, and the I looked into the avatar situation and discovered that, contrary to my own intuition (where avatars would incorporate lightweight, aggressively CPU-throttled control programs that could arbitrarily direct how emoting works etc), you basically get a restrictive SDK that's just *upgraded* to the point where you have like 16 different things your avatar can do.
It's simultaneously utterly inspiring and an absolute dumpster fire. I "got" VRChat for the first time when I discovered this last week and have been awkwardly conflicted about it ever since.
- fennecfoxy 5y agoIdk why people would complain about furry representation in VR chat, if at all furries are driving things like VR chat and in 20-30 years or so everyone will be using it and it will "be cool". Not really much difference between an avatar of any other character and a furry avatar, just people are fans of their own character/universe than say a character from Star Trek or something.
- tomjakubowski 5y agoIt's really no weirder than Rick Sanchez and Superman avatars dancing to Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream" speech in Fortnite. The metaverse is strange. https://twitter.com/Mlickles/status/1430923368237252609 https://twitter.com/Mlickles/status/1430923368237252609