/vrg/ - Virtual Reality General #1858

I just want to see if your male daughter is okay!

>>564009119 (OP)
How Heavy Are the Controllers You Lift?
16th of May
As we work towards our toned summer bodies, let us celebrate together with a night of fitness and sports!

Come dressed in something athletic:
A full shell tracksuit for winter runs.
Yoga Lycra to get some real use out of your VR ball.
Your favourite football team's uniform with shin pads and boots.
A full set of American football armour.
Anything remotely sporty or fitness themed!
(This is not a swimsuit event there will surely be plenty of those in the summer).

We'll explore some of the sports and games maps that VRC has to offer, with a plethora including but not limited to: Badminton, Baseball, Basketball, Bowling, Boxing, Cycling, Darts, Fencing, Rollerskating, Table Tennis, Tennis, Volleyball.
Afterwards you can get your healthy drink on of veggie smoothies, protein shakes or herbal teas (not that we'll know what's in your cup on your end) as we check out some gyms and health and wellness places to cool down and stretch off.

As always if you have a map you want to suggest we go visit please let me know by replying to this post.

xth for the absolute state of
>NA

GAY SEX
FFXIV
PHOTONS
LATENCY
DISCORD TRANNIES
PANCAKES

2/4 mahjong, crystal
pf pw 3333

>>564009465
always amazed at how many different boards/threads this image is useful for

>>564009913
real

>>564009234
open na noor

as a record for the future generation
let it be known that the rambling of a drunk man as no value in the grand scheme of things
here we sign as the fellowship of vrg that the man holds no truth and faggotry is out of his hands

>>564009234

Vote NOW

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>>564009913
grimmogged

how many hours until you develop the vrchat accent. I have 600 and still struggle to talk to people.
Every time im not playing the game im depressed and every time i do I hate it. This game is such an anomaly in my head.

>>564010876
>implying I don't love australia

>>564010973
its just like having a wife

IM IN A BAND IM IN A BAND!!!
IM IN A BAND IM IN A BAND!!!

>talking to vrchat boyfriend in home world
>go to get a drink
>forgot i was on green
>other vrchat boyfriend joined and is talking to him
oh no no fuck fuck what do i do

>>564011763
invite your furry discord kitten over for a foursome of course.

>>564011763
1 stop pretending to be a woman either transition in RL or knock it off
2 try tinder

>>564011763
Lol I hate when that happens

>>564010973
whats the vrchat accent?

>>564012091
try to talk with your mouth instead of your larynx

>>564012387
lmao why are you psyopping people into becoming trannies

>>564012091
Its like a mix of gay, severely online and anime. I cant really explain it. just go to black cat mirror and listen. Normally if you have the accent you don't notice it.

time to pool in the desert
https://vrch.at/g5khf3b8

>>564013273

>>564012387
i have been trying to do this and i cant

>>564013273
Unlocked link https://vrch.at/g5khf3b8

Is there NA poker and if so when?

bb's huge hole

>>564013487
it takes practice and if you aren't use to it, it will be exhausting at first.

>>564013973
faggot
>>564010973
what's a vrchat accent?

>>564013273

>>564014706
Yah missed skellybro

>>564010736
No kys for even suggesting this

>>564010736
Thanks Satan. That could actually be fun

>>564010736
As a former /xivg/er
nyo

>>564014706

>>564015458
kino

>>564010736
nyes
what could pyossibly go wrong?

>>564014775
performance anxiety

>someone waves towards me
>it's actually not for me
At least I didn't embarrass myself by waving back...

>>564013273

>>564013273
can you kick the randos that are "not drunk enough to say the N word"

>>564015458
whos this

>>564017735
come to the cafe front desk and tell me who then

>>564010736
but anon, every day in vrc is an xvig collab

>>564009119 (OP)
Announcing a historic moment for /vrg/, a crossover event between our beloved SOS Group and the legendary VRChat Community, Local Police Department!

Coordinated by our very own Yuki Nagato, we'll join hand in hand with LPD leadership to foster a welcoming environment for all.

Please be aware of the following rules while engaging with users from LPD:
1. Do not use the word nigger.
2. Do not use explicit imagery in stickers or emotes.
3. Do not bring NSFW avatars to the event.
4. Do not discuss Jews, Hitler, George Floyd, transsexualism, or su*cide.

The event will take place next Saturday (the 25th of May) at 12:00 UTC, followed by FBF at 14:00 UTC, followed by karaoke.

I hope to see everyone there!

blackedfags in instance, abandon ship

>>564010736
JFC steam if for all of /vg/

>>564018960
>blackedfags
you can just say sergster by name

>>564018904

>>564018960
it's just A/
nothing to worry about

hey mothman
here is the base: booth.pm/en/items/4938245

>>564020275
really cute anime version of Stewie!

>>564013705
>NA poker
Yes, on thursdays

>>564020556
Now I'm extremely butthurt, fuck you anon

"GRIMPOSTERS could be here" he thought, "I've never been in an NA instance before. There could be GRIMPOSTERS anywhere." The cool box fan felt good against his overheating quest 3. "I HATE GRIMPOSTERS" he thought. Boom Boom by Ralph Becker reverberated his entire room, making it pulsate even as the $4 can of celcius circulated through his powerful thick veins and washed away his (merited) fear of groomers on blue board instances. "With a headset, you can be anyone you want" he said to himself, out loud.

>>564021042
Grim

>>564021042
grimmest post in this thread

>>564021042
Dire

>>564018904
>>564018904
S T O P

>>564021042
Disturbingly grim

>>564018904
grim

>>564021042
>>564021348
Grimwing

STOP POSTING ABOUT GRIM. I'm tired of seeing it!
My friends on 4chan say grim, on vrchat its all grim. I was in a SEA instance right? And ALLL of the NA people there were grim.
I showed my avatar to my EU friend, and the smile, he flipped it and said
>Hey babe, when the avatar is grim.
AHHHHH GRIM gr- gri- grim grim gr- grim... grim GRIM grim...

>>564021042
who's ts grim girrrlllll? :)

NA is healing

I'm glad I don't have face tracking so people can't see me crying

>>564022138
Toldyah piol glazer bbg and poker M will usher in the new NA era. Keep it up and continue to rallyaround them

>>564021042
Grimmaxxxing

>>564022962
"hi I'm a faggot and I use lapwing"

>>564022962
"Grim."

>>564020775
What time?

>>564023020
lapwings are cool

>>564023475
>>564023051

It's over booth event goers

>>564023642
the more I learn about this tupper guy, the more I don't care for him

Play a real vr game.

>>564023529
Excellent

>>564023776
he is a very performative faggot

>>564023776
There is a very solid chance that the retard arguing about raising minimum specs was Tupper himself

>>564023642
that's great I'm glad tupper is having a good time

>>564023810
But how will I plap the wing?

>keep hearing my name at the meets in the distance
>nobody actually talking to me

:: SEA Anime and Exploration - Edition | (See schedule below) ::
What is this?
Super Epic Awesome Exploration (SEA Exploration for short)
We go in a group to explore many new VRchat worlds in a rapid fashion to find good ones and experience them in full with nice frens. We watch a couple of seasonal anime before the explore!

When?
Sun - 8:00AM-9:30AM UTC - SEA anime
Sun - 9:30AM-3:00PM UTC - SEA after hrs heavy exploration

There will be one soon in a few hrs will drop link when the time is nigh.

>>564025357

>>564023157
uuuh we've been playing @ 8PM NY time, but I think 9PM is the actual intended time?
just keep an eye out for any announcements, if the actual host doesn't post any, I'll do it instead.

>>564024854
its because i love you and i need you

>>564022323
>poker M
I'm not the actual host lol

>>564025976
This is saturday night right?

>>564026204
I know but you’re part of the new crop who actually hosts for NA. Take a bit if pride shroom sakura

>>564023810
How about I play with you instead plapwing?

My name is Nikei Dresden motherfucker. Open the door.
Where is your custom avatar?

>>564026456
>This is saturday night right?
Thursday night. Saturday poker depends on B putting the table in his map.

>>564026821
Right here Deez

>>564026180
No you don't

SEA vtol in 1 hour from now.
No large workshop download required (yet). Might just play a desert cobra mission or two.
Or more training.

>>564028108
>Or more training.
QRD? I have VTOL and vaguely understand how to play but I wouldn't mind joining and being trained

>>564027786
yes i freakin frookin do

>>564028612
Just used the t-55 to teach a guy gps bombs, head tracking with the TGP and hotkeys for that. Guess we could go over the vulcan gun aiming too.
If we get a full party of 4, you guys need to be ok with all the systems before we start the *real* game of ace combat 5.

>>564029337
Yeah I've heard there's two-seater teaching planes before but have never actually been in one, it's been a few months since I've played. I probably remember how to taxi but I don't think I ever really learned how to fight

>>564029539
You dont need the t-55 dlc to be in the student chair, only i do. You sound like you need training yeah.

I have finally gotten back to work on something but this time something more useful perhaps.
I have modified redsim's light volumes to support baking of directional light shadowmasks.
The only thing rendering a shadow in this scene is my avatar.

Ignore everything past this its blogposting now.
So like this is something that could actually be useful but to take it over the finish line is getting above me cuz of all the other people needed to make it work.
Like is there any map maker that'd actually give a fuck to use this feature.
Besides that though I did find a couple bugs with baking with transparent materials (probably should be ignored) and multi material objects which weren't handled correctly.
So at the very least I can squash those.
Then at the bigger ideas of instead of it being a mask its an SDF but the current way it bakes occlusion it's impractical so I'd have to completely change it to use the raytrace bakers which getting real out of my scope at that point.

I'd at the very least call this a novel idea.

>>564030657
I don't really get it but it looks cool

>>564028108
SEA vtol now up.
Lobby: vrgtol
Code: XMOP (or 0?)
Pass: hotdog
No mods.

big gay

Got the slop machine to code me a converter from .acmi from the VTOLReplayConvter to something that vrchat can read and download dynamically https://github.com/LSantos2003/VTReplayConverter. Seems to work. just needs the rest of the owl.

>>564032596
i could watch this for hours

>>564032596
post op debriefings in vrc when?

>>564034013
Only if you do them TIE Fighter style, complete with secret secondary mission.

>>564010736
grim

>>564030657
I’ve used shadowmasks before yeah. But they work with standard shader by default as seen from the shadow there. If you are using filamented it’s carried over.

Shadowmasks are usually good for massive maps

>>564010736
if you had asked me this 6 years ago when xivg was pretty cool i might've said yes

>>564010736
xiv has had it rought for a few years, we gotta introduce them to a better space before they go mad

>>564009234
OPEN THE DOOR I NEED YOUR PINK MONSTER

>>564025357
SEA anime live
https://vrch.at/9232kawq
https://vrch.at/9232kawq

>>564035665
i NEED to have sex with this thing

>>564035929
fucking children is bad mmkay?

>>564036031
Umm source?

>an other weekend going to sleep while crying
I wish I never found this place and never wasted all this time with vr...

>>564036676
grimfuel... we need to start having some hopefuel in here

>>564037008
What's grim is having believed I made any actual friends in this place

>>564032101
POV: A high elo player is behind you and rapidly approaching your ass.

>>564035665

>>564037890
/\ BLESS /\

>>564035929
goo goo gaa gaa

>>564037556
How can we help you find the good people here...

>>564037890

>>564039173

>>564039173
it's crazy grown ass men have sent me the exact same messages on discord

>>564039434
kek

stairway to hell

Legal exploration

>>564034696
xivg find the vr mod again?

>>564040978
>>564040961
SEA Exploration is live!
Come join!
https://anchor.vrg.social/
https://anchor.vrg.social/

on the road to spooksville

>>564039434
Son ones middle aged son

>>564041439
Cousin niko lets go bowling

>>564041439

>>564041439

Play the fucking vr games
or I will end you

>>564042438
I have never seen a VR game.

>>564041439

>>564041439

>>564041439

>>564042714
Nooooo

>>564042767
it should have been me..

>>564042803
Let us iiinnnnnn

>>564041439
aaaaaaaaaaaaa

>>564041439

>>564042767
what goes on under the mahjong table

>>564042767
goals ngl

>>564041439

>>564041439

>>564041439
Real exploring

>>564030657
rape sex

>>564041439
let it rip!

>>564041439

>>564041439
let's beyblaaaaaade

>>564041439
Prettyslop

>>564041439

Yo, you guys allow furry avatars yeah? I usually play with the /trash/ vrfg group but I figured I'd see what /vg/ is up to.

>>564047351
Oh my god that thumbnail looked like something completely different

>>564047351
HANK, HANK THE THUMBNAIL-

>>564047356
kys

>>564047482
I've been on 4chan since 2004, everyone knows /v/ is furry and always has been. Now answer the question.

>>564047356
>>564047556
Try it.
I will friend you if i see you. But you better keep your muzzle shut incase you have an annoying voice or true furry autism.
Oh you'll also get kicked from the instance faster than your avatar can load in.

>>564047556
didn't ask, zoosadist. Show up in a booth or get kicked.

>>564047556
You will kill yourself or be killed for you. Take your bait and leave.

>>564047752
>>564047726
Nah, I only play vrchat to be an anthro, I dislike human faces and immediately google if there is a furry mod for a game before I play it, furry model only or bust. Don't make it weird.
>>564047679
We'll see I guess, the other 4chan groups are pretty chill and the other non furry group on /trash/ will often party with us on special occassions. Would be odd if you guys were suddenly so different.

>>564041439

>>564048235
Need to grim this grimella

>>564034153
I need to play the VR Total Conversion mod again. Playing as an Imperial space force pilot is so fucking bomb. Been waiting for a sale on Steam, but seems I'm waiting until Summer. Maybe even then I won't see the base X-Wing game for sale.

>>564041439

>>564049126
Hey that's my home world.

>>564041439

>final mission in sniper elite VR
>need 33 stars in total to launch it

why do they do this? why would anyone prevent you from completing the story if you havent REPLAYED the previous missions ad nauseum?
i fucking hate any game that does this.

Begun the Kon wars have...

>>564041439

>>564041439
look at the size of that kon

>>564049864

>>564041439
my mast

>>564049736
kon kon

>i stood in the fumo group shot
fuck my stupid chud life

>>564041439

>>564051229

>>564041439
I stoled the skull
last one from me, thank you yuki for hosting!

>>564041439

>>564041439

>>564041439
PoV you are a kon

>>564051920
The sacrificial gremlin

>"Hello? Based department?"
'No you want extension +213 not +312'

>>564009234
I like your door bell

>>564052441
B L A C K E D

Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Also pretty 3dgs

>>564041439
Truthnuke launcher

>>564048898
if we can confirm networking works with the XWAU and VR mod we can actually have large squadron battles unlike the cucked Star Wars squadron game
https://streamable.com/3va6pb

>>564030657
This looks amazing, god damn. Do you need to make any changes to avatar's shader/material, or is it just working out of the box if I'd join this world in latest liltoon right now?

>>564041439
Here's the real pictureofthe map

>>564054202
Here's the teal real pic

>>564036676
Time is only wasted if you don't learn from it.

>>564041439
Kino

>>564054314

>>564041439

>>564041439

>>564041439
Yep, that's going in my grim compilation.

>>564041439
HAPPY BDAY TOESEKI!

>>564056563
couldn't pay me to get photographed with the foot obelisk

>>564041439
Neutrino detector

>>564041439

I want to try poking your brain a bit, anon. Imagine that, without being too much of a little whiny bitch, and without bullshit preaching, you're mildly dissatisfied with how you keep jumping around between groups of 3-4 people during drinking nights, happy to see everyone, not getting a chance to properly talk to anyone. But you have no desire to force anyone to get along, you don't want to put active effort into it, and you don't want to become yet another 3-4 people circle yourself. And so, imagine you want to make a world that subtly encourages getting those groups of intoxicated people closer together, giving them a reason to interact with each other, basically make it so that at least some of groups of three turn into into a group of six people.

How would you do that? Some specific level design with carefully sized areas and points of interest? What would those points of interest be? Games that two can play, and more can watch/cheer on? Bigger party games that don't require too much effort, but need more players to have fun? What would those be? Or even just some kind of object/environment that subtly works as a conversation starter, or at least attracts people around?

This might be a pointless thing to consider, but who knows, maybe we'll end up with some good ideas. I have no good ideas, but if (You) drop something interesting and I'll believe in it, I'll make a hangout map out of it. tl;dr, give me your perfect social hangout map ideas.

does lowering resolution and my fps to 72 have a meaningful effect on compression artifacts on 10bit or should i just get the usb to ethernet adapter to at least do 500mbit without autistic levels of hitching

>>564057265
pinning this and replying after sea explo

>>564041439
You're telling me that a shrimp detected that neutrino

>>564057265
a world with 3 rooms max and a game/activity in each

>>564057316
yes, fps have a dramatic effect on compression

>>564057874
alright ill try it
shits driving me nuts i used to be able to do both 10 bits at 200mbit no problem and the compression was ignorable
but 120mbit? i can count the squares in some games

>>564041439
The scan quality varies but it's colorful

>>564057265
From my observation, people don't become friends during the activities, but outside of them. You can play a game with someone regularly for years and know absolutely nothing about them. The game however may serve as a catalyst to meeting them elsewhere. To accomplish what you want, you should have some kind of mechanic that encourages people to meet again in a different context.

t. made the mistake of only joining activities and skipping the boring socialization after so I don't know any of the hundreds of people I've met at all.

Is this... Pumnussy?

>>564049701
>i actually go and get enough stars
>turns out it wasnt the last mission
>now i need 37 stars (3 star almost every mission)

i quit

>>564059912
use it like an onahole

>>564041439

>>564041439
Print world!

>>564060379
who is this?

>>564060531
Who knows

>>564060531
rando jap

>>564041439

>>564060925
delicious looking chocolate

>>564041439

>>564053730
Latest XWAU is basically unplayable on Linux so I gave up for now but 2020 version did have working MP in VR.

>>564032596
Look slick.

>>564041439

Forefront and ITR 2 leaving early access next week on the 23rd, time to annoy anons to play coop with and fight sweaty players on All Maps servers again.

>>564041439

>>564041439
Ggwp guys nice exploran till next time. Generator died.
Please follow JM for the last chill world for the night
Nini and thanks for exploring with everyone

>>564062114
Friday sloppa will be Frot, that much is given.

>>564062114
>time to annoy anons to play coop
I already know I won't be invited by a single person I've ever met and anyone I invite will say no.

>>564062461
It's ovet

>>564062585
NA, SEA or EU?

Maybe I should stop wasting my weekends drinking with EU and NA and do it with SEA instead
And since I work early in the morning until midday it could work better with my sleep/work schedule

>>564063343
There's not so much of a drinking culture, it's more chill and just about hanging out.

>>564062807
It's not the same if you have to ask to be included.

>>564064070
Anon, it's two player coop, you have to ask.

>>564064070
ITR2 currently only supports 2 player coop, 4 player coop comes later, so if you want to play coop, you have to coordinate accordingly.

>>564064159
They dropped the plan for four player?

>>564063454
I don't say cheers and usually drink by myself anyway without making myself blackout drunk

>>564064263
They haven't implemented 4 player coop yet, that comes after leaving early access, they also haven't implemented active artifacts yet or the shooting range.

>>564064263
No, but it won't be on the full release.

Golf+ in roughly 3 hours and 20 minutes.

>>564064371
That is a relief then.

Also reminder Showdown will also wipe the extraction mode next week for new round of suffering and base BR mode will become F2P.

>>564064919
>base BR mode will become F2P
took em long enough

>>564055143
Mentioned to a few people but I found one of my cameras in that world. Had fun explaining how SLR's and rangefinders work.

>>564065048
I loved hearing it, we should go again so you can tell me more

>>564064919
The BR was kinda fun but still feels unfinished. Will the PVE update come out as well that would be fun to bash out a bit.

>>564065234
No idea what their plans with PvE will be, chances are it will be paid DLC like in Tarkov and Tabor.

>>564055909
Grim penbook

>>564064070
So what is it, NA, SEA or EU?

>>564064308
Nice. A responsible drinker, you’ll fit in well with the shenanigans or should I say the SEAnanigans

>>564066312
Grimnanigans

>get introduced to someone
>they just list my grim fetishes
>don't even mention anything else
Cool...

>>564066468
I mean depending on the fetish that doesn’t sound too bad
Remember you’re in a virtual avatar

>>564066468
Well, what are your fetishes?

>>564066218
Not interested in 2 player co-op desu

>>564066554
>>564066576
They are very grim and my avatar doesn't hint to them

>>564066468
Did you remember to have more to your personality than just your fetishes?

>>564066868
What if his personality is also grim?

>>564066468
Why do they know your fetishes in the first place?
Do you thing that sharing that information with all your friends is normal behavior like YN believes?
If that's the case I don't want people introducing you to me.

>>564066648
In that case wait for the turtles game at the end of month.

>>564034873
Yes but voxel shadow masks for dynamic objects is cool too...
>>564054050
Thats one of the trickier things for me as well. It needs to be properly integrated into the LV's shader portion as to not break past versions.
Right now it's just duct taped on so it'd work at least.

>>564067036
Then he should try getting good fetishes.

>>564066868
I'd rather be seen as having no personality

>>564067054
>Why do they know your fetishes in the first place?
Things happen in red board instances

Reminder we're watching Ring in roughly three and a half hours at 21:00 CEST today.
The original Japanese version from 1998 rather than the American remake from 2002.

>>564041439
this is the best fire i have ever seen in VR

Slices of cuteza

i like when people talk about me :)

bought a damn ethernet usb c adapter
should have just got a wired headset in the first place wifi is ass in apartment complexes

>>564074154
There aren't any wired headsets without massive compromises

>>564074250
There aren't any headsets without massive compromises in general.

>>564074250
i suppose thats true at least the pancake lenses are nice and the controller tracking shits all over my old reverb G2

>>564074327
If you didn't already; if your headset supports 6E you can lock it to 6GHz only. Locking to 5GHz only is also recommended if it's just 6. If you don't even have a wifi hotspot in your playspace that's something to do as well.

I felt unwell so i slept through sea explore :(

>>564074320
Everything in life has compromises and pretending it does not has lead to significant mental dysfunction.

>>564074461
i have dedicated 6ghz with my headset being the only wifi using item in my entire apartment
i tried channel hopping and tried two different routers on the confirmed good routers for VD list
500mb 264 mostly runs fine but the stutters are too much if this 40 dollar cable+adapter combo fixes that ill be happy enough
at least its just a small usb c cable and not the fatass displayport cables the old headsets used

>>564074673
I said massive. Not just minor ones.

>>564030657
cool. IIUC you're baking shaded/unshaded state as voxels/3d texture in a volume, sampling that in the materials on your avatar (analogous to LV sampling the lighting SH), then blending it with the dynamic shadowcast? I think it definitely could work if you make a demo world + some pedestal avatars with it installed. kind of like how Light Volumes itself originally just had that one poppy street demo world.

If you post the code somewhere I can take a look and maybe make some suggestions. Nice to see other effortposters ITT.

>>564074541
How you feel better now annonnie

>>564073938
i do as well, but in a self aggrandizing manner, so im cautious of the feeling

>>564076106
not really my head feels really fuzzy i was gonna hop on but im sure everyones half asleep and tired

>>564074791
Are the compromises truly exceptional? It doesn't seem any different from the console wars of the 90s and 00s. We've already entered the era where most people can't even remember what Rift and Vive users used to argue about and even deny many of the complaints ever existed.

>>564076974
Well somewhat.
With the beyond2 the compromise is you might just get one that sets itself on fire, get electrocuted by it, have 5 RMAs until they give up on you, and then if you get one that works the headset's sweetspot is small enough you might never get to use it properly.
The psvr2 is more decent, but there could be tracking issues, the cable is not replaceable, the controllers kinda suck with tracking, and so on.
The index's only compromise is that it's super fucking old and the screen is outclassed by cheaper headsets.

>>564073938
I don't. Even if it's positive I fear it will attract negative attention from someone else.

>>564077292
The only thing schizos hate more than seeing someone else get attention is someone else get liked.

>>564077201
I'd say the Index's main compromise is that the build quality is far too low for the price and you're very likely to have to replace parts of it for equally extortionate prices.

>>564077463
The build quality gets shit on but it's actually perfectly fine, the thing actually tanks pretty hard - I've dropped mine like half a dozen times and it's fine. It just has a few flaws where it will always fail in a few specific places and if you fix them then it's tough and lasts. The reason you think it's not tough is because there are like 200 people with indexes around here and so you'll see it a lot of times even if it's not actually that common.
The spring loaded section on the headband tends to have the plastic crack and spring open, the thumbsticks will go because they are normal thumbsticks, and the cable wears but that's the case with any wired headset cable wise.

>>564077463
this desu
the build quality/durability on the index is really awful.
ask me how i know
>t. 10+ RMAs for both controllers and headset

>>564077685
>abuse the shit out of your headset
>bro why is the build quality awful

>>564077772
funny how i have never had to RMA any of my other headsets even once in the many years i've had them compared to the insane amount of times ive had to RMA an index.

>>564074846
Here is the little bit ive done so far
https://github.com/Zakhazerd/VRCLightVolumes/tree/Directional

As for the shader i just grabbed out from how PLV shadows worked and access that first shadow slot to make it work

>>564077840
Were any of the RMAs not one of the things mentioned?

How do people break their index?
I've had my index for 6 years and besides the plastic holding the cable to the straps I had nothing breaking
On the other hand my CV1 had 1 cable replacement in 2 years of use

>>564078054
in terms of the headset I believe the first 3 RMAs I got early on or so were because the display would constantly develop lots of dead pixels at quite a surprisingly fast rate.
4th RMA finally fixed that.
then the top bar holding the top strap on (which is just a tiny little piece of plastic) snapped
cant remember if I got a 5th RMA and had the same thing happen again with the top piece or if im still on my 4th RMA but the top strap is literally held together by duct tape (pic related, not my picture but it seems to be somewhat common of a problem.)

then there was like 3 cables I've gone through and god knows how many controllers at this point for stick drift and/or capacitive sensors no longer working

>>564078493
cute hands

>>564078569
not me or my picture but thanks

>>564077646
The headset itself is acceptable. The cable has inherent design flaws that cause it to break extremely quickly without modifications, and while they improved the worst failure points of the controllers after a few years, they still feel much cheaper than they should for the price.

>>564078641
are you even the anon he was replying to?

>>564078858
yes
i even said in the post
>pic related, not my picture but it seems to be somewhat common of a problem.

>>564030657
I'd love to use this tech but I'm too much of a brainlet to figure out Unity and VRChat's lighting options beyond a default bake. Hopefully people smarter than me can use it to make some nice looking worlds tho

>>564078493
>4th RMA
people are still anxiously waiting 2 more weeks to do it all again

Heya, just wondering if there are any theater kids among you or anons who wanted to step up on the stage but were never quite able to do so.
What I'd imagine would be the easiest way to make this more accessable to everyone would be hosting some audience anarchy, freestyle or some old drama court to get people used to. Maybe if enough interest arises we could start forming some proper plays or if any cinematographers are among us make a short little movie.
Do have to note, I myself never really got into acting so who knows how this will turn out, probably won't be winning any oscars or tonys anytime soon but we'll have fun atleast.
For the schedule currently have 3 days in mind that I'd wanna try. For regural events was thinking around Monday mahjong, Wednesdays around an hour into pypy or hosting a special event for it in 2 weeks.

>>564079617
Been a while since the last vrg stage play. Are you wanting to do an original script or a recreation of one?

my pc headset doesnt fit over the bobo S3 strap :(

>>564079852
>last vrg stage play
i didn't know there was one before, qrd?

>>564080109
it was back during covid times before this place died

>>564064541
Golf+ in 5 minutes. Join VRGVRG.

>>564080109
It was an original script, anons did regular practice and then put on a show for everyone. It was great and back when this place had SOVL

Man Marrow Marrow is fun, but the idea of resetting the leaderboards daily is crazy. Especially when they made leaderboards locked behind "completing a run" which is 9 level in a row and it gets hellish hard after hard. You need to finish on hard to open all of the leaderboards.

The game is good, but they barely advertised and it has 3 reviews on Meta store and 6 on steam. For once steam is winning lel... Leaderboards are a ghost town...

Try the game it's fucking peak. Basically condensed Doom Ethernal with nice and smooth movements, impactful guns and cool graphics design.

>>564079852
Not really a writer so was mainly thinking about running already made plays (Withsome ad libbing thrown in)
But suppose if there's a few participants and interest could try my hands at making one or going with any suggested ones

vrg whos line is it anyway

>>564080162
>/vrg/ is LE DEAD because we don't have 6 gorrilian normalfags who would rather have just gone outside any more

EU Assetto Corsa: European Racing club
Race 118

18:00 UTC 20:00 CET, 20th of April

We are back from the easter break!

Going back to the basics. Little Fiat that could in Zandvoort. After that some relaxing ride in murica in muscle cars.

60 minute practice
12 minutes qualifiers
10 laps race

Assetto Corsa Content Manager - a better launcher and mod manager: https://assettocorsa.club/content-manager.html
To install mods: just drag and drop zip files from mega onto the Content Manager windows and click on the hamburger menu on top right. Install stable custom shader patch and 7-zip plugin in Content manager.

For communication we'll use mumble at voice.vrg.party port 64738, as it doesn't need any registrations or logins.
https://www.mumble.info/

MODS: NO MODS!

>>564080109
>>564080610
>>564080162

https://youtu.be/4BiOiFSsnJc

Showrunner here, I'd love to do something like this again, but I'm not sure if modern /vrg/ has the covid-era free time or the motivation anymore.
Between the cast and crew, it took over 40 anons rehearsing every day, 4-5 days a week, for 3ish hours each of those days.

>>564081053
>Remember you missed out on covid-era VR and there's no going back
Should just end it all ngl

>>564041439

>>564081053
>4-5 days a week, for 3ish hours each of those days.
for how long?

>>564073938
>wallflower around instance
>leave for another without saying much
>minutes later get informed thru DM people shit talked me as soon as I left
Very cool!

>>564081316
Writing, stage design, and casting call took about 1.5 months, from mid-December 2020 to the end of January 2021.
Rehearsals started at the beginning of February and went about 2.5 months to the show night of April 10th.

>>564081278
Could be worse. You could have had a headset but also an "essential" job getting no time off at all and having to listen to everyone else brag about how they get paid to not even go to work or answer one email per week.

>>564081790
it was great being a grocery store monkey and having everyone act like your a "hero" for like 2 weeks before going back to treating you like trash right after
how quickly niggas forget
at least i had first dibs on toilet paper since i work overnights

>>564081053
i think another problem is fragmentation. most of the anons in that poster have moved on to their own inner circle groups separate from /vrg/

>>564082004
Same. For me it was realizing about 2 weeks after it reached my city that it was all a massive larp and presented no risk at all to anyone outside of the extremely elderly or immunocompromised then having to pretend to do their pointless bullshit for 2 years. To this day I'm estranged from the majority of the population who got all their information through the media and genuinely believe they survived a doomsday tier event.

>>564080868
>/vrg/ is LE DEAD
Yes.

>>564080868
>/vrg/ is LE DEAD
I agree.
Not because of the missing normies, but because we have to many normies that fall into the degen/tranny trap.

>>564083348
Did you get a job yet?

>>564083461
Who do you think you are replying to?

>>564083615
He thinks there is only one person in the thread that has nooticed the declining state of /vrg/.

guys the Basis 1000 player test is today! are we hyped?

>>564083348
The reality is that /vrg/ was full of randos and normalfags from the start. Many of the earliest members are among the worst offenders.

>>564083734

>>564083750
I'll take a normalfag who actually plays VR vs someone who bitches all day in this thread and never puts on their headset.

>>564083734
Hasn't it been today for the last week? They kept pinging everyone over and over again.

>>564083859
What this post actually translates to:
>I'll take a rando any day over the week compared to someone who reads this thread

>>564084057
Correct. This thread only has around 40 active posters and on average they're worse than a typical rando.

>>564084317
Then why are you here?
What is your purpose other than gaslighting us about how great your rando friends are compared to this place?

>>564083859
>>564084057
Just befriend people who use this thread and their headsets.
That's what I did and I have a great time hanging out with my friends.

we already did this last thread, can we please not today

>>564083859
I agree. I'm saying /vrg/ was essentially the same shit from the start.

>>564083859
The good news is we get no vr thread bitchers!

>>564084317
You don't need to be an active poster to be /vrg/.
Yuki already said that it's fine to read the thread once every 3-6 month. Fuck you.

>our Great Leader said it was ok, therefore it was ok

((They)) are once again calling it the healthiest /vrg/ timezone in existence.

EU has KK, SEA has YN, but ever since R stopped grrrrring about randos years ago, there's no one in NA willing to stake their name and reputation on enforcing thread culture. I think we need more leaderfags, not fewer.

>>564085274
Shut the fuck up nerd

>>564085274
my opinion on the matter is I think we should rape you to death

>>564085274
>we need more leaderfags, not fewer.
when we had anchors people were shitting on them for not cleaning up properly.
after some time they didn't want to leaderfag anymore.
now you want back to the old system, but everybody has seen how many enemies you make by simply being online for others to join.

>>564085274

>>564085736
Ok, how do you propose we solve the rando problem then?

After spending a whole weekend with every timezone, I can confirm that NA was the most grim timezone

>>564085982
It is extremely grim, especially for those of us who live in the timezone (all of the blame of the people complaining for some reason gets shifted to one imaginary jobless EU boogeyman)

maybe the real solution is (You) putting effort into making things fun as a participant, rather than putting yet another poor soul in anchor position and having him run the fuck away once he fully realizes how terrible it is

>>564085853
Group+ instances with a HUGE blacklist of NA drama discord niggers.

>>564085853
>hurr durr how do we fix it
we don't, it's over
my claim is that /vrg/ is dead, it has been killed, it ceased to be, it is no more,
what we have right now is nostalgia and we cling on to it with running the last couple of years on repeat.
nostalgia is an amazing drug.
there is nothing to solve. the ship has sailed and the train has left the station.

all this complaining bout NA being grim is just going to discourage new NA anons who actually browse from joining, only further reinforcing the vicious cycle of grimness

>>564086262
if you believe that, why not do the thing you think is healthy and leave here?

I've got a better idea: how about we just post some photos from the weekend?

You DO have pictures of your friends from the fun times you had this weekend, right anon?

>>564086540
Why is every Y insufferable?

>>564086540
I don't have pictures because I don't have friends...

>>564086540
I've got a better idea: drop the voice changer, ywnbaw

>>564086540
>fun
i only have pantyshots and pictures of people crying. good weekend, good times

>>564086540
i took pictures of friends but I won't be posting them for the thread vampires to latch onto, thanks

>>564086540
Unfortunately I have not opened VRchat in multiple years and as time goes on I become even less likely to ever do so again.

>>564087050
would you kindly leave and never come back?

>>564086540
I've been posting them this whole time.

>>564086986
>nooo not le heckin thread goblins, they'll ruin my threadcred!
lmaoing @ u

>>564068760
Instance up
https://vrch.at/c8fq5rvu

>>564087193
i have enough schizos i don't need any more vermin such as yourself ODing to the thought of me

>>564086298
Nah if you're na just join eu or sea

an NA thread rando globlin alcoholic leaderfag just invited me to his dramacord at spawn

>>564086540
does Thursday count?

>>564087409
I'm at work for EU and asleep for SEA, so not an option for me

>>564087123
Why do you think VRchat is this thread's only subject matter?

some of you should stop being naked at the meets
and no, a cage doesn't count as clothes!

>/vrg/ is dead
That post doesn't deserve a (you), but other anons should read this post.
If either the thread or the community no longer suit your taste, or you think it could be more, be the one to step up.
No matter what, this community will be different from it was then and what it is now, with or without your input.
The more you wait to be the one doing something, the more your enjoyment of this place will degrade in your eyes, because other anons will continuously reshape this place, even if they do so unconsciously. The earlier you do something, the earlier things will move in your direction

>>564086793
I'm not y, I just took the photo, nigger-kun.

>>564088143
and what are you doing to save the thread aside from more complaining, faggot?

>>564084776
>read the thread once every 3-6 month.
mfw basically did this by taking a break getting distracted by other games and the content of the thread literally did not change at all since before the new year lmao

some of you should stop being barefoot at the meets
and yes, stirrups do count as barefoot!

>>564088463
yep, aside from maybe half a dozen posts about Proton VR, even the VR games being discussed here are several years old at this point

>>564079617
Hintdrop?
Kinda interested and would like to discuss in dms

>>564088508
but its comfy...

>>564088259
I don't know who you are but you'd be a good boyfriend for me

>>564088259
>I have no original design whatsoever, please fuck me
boothsluts arr rook same

>>564088143
I think it's better to focus on whatever part you do find value in, rather than trying to change something you don't.

April 2026
I am forgotten...

>>564089207
That's a great idea in theory, but in practice it looks more like this
>create thread-only, activity-based instance
>2 people join
>they leave for the massive rando instance 10 minutes later anyway

>>564089434
Every time.

>>564089434
Anyway enough about shannon what about the other people who don't leave 10 minutes later.

>>564089365
I never played this game again after the brainlets in charge announced a reset tbqh

>>564089434
>>564089472
When does that happen? Mahjong, poker, volleyball, etc. always has a ton of people staying to play.

>>564089697
NA event that was advertised for months had 4 people show up to it this weekend

>>564089765
EU "event" which was make a "kon" and did not have a dedicated host for NA and scheduled during Pavlov had four people show up.

Meanwhile /vrlg/ is actually dead

good

>>564089434
You are trying to engineer which meetups people go to, which isn't going to work. You need a less direct approach, like being one more person at a smaller meetup or logging in at a different time or day entirely.

So i've determined nobody in SEA owns vtol vr. Alright, guess i'll stick with the NA crew on thursday evenings EST.

>>564090185
I thought NA was dead?

>>564088696

What do we think about postprocessing and filtering?

Going over some weekend photos and trying to decide how much processing is too much.

>>564090463
the filtered version just straight up looks like ai slop

>>564090463
>raw
Yes please?

>>564090463
Filtered looks like the shit i'd see on twitter

>have fun at a full and active NA instance last night
>fall asleep
> wake up to find out that /vrg/ is dead
>>564086610
>that i'm insufferable
>>564086793
>and that i need to drop the voice changer
wooooow

I dunno, did you guys stop to consider that maybe it's just a thread problem? Sure it'll never be 2018 again but things are pretty fine now. I'm still having fun. Most times, when you're not having fun it's a personal problem and you need to change your mindset.

>>564090463
a lot of the big japanese vrc photo accounts do a lot of post-processing and it usually makes the pictures better
in fact you've posted proof right there, the right side is the best photo

>>564090463
I agree with >>564090534 but I do think brightening helps a lot with many photos

>>564090463
seconnd one unironically feels best for me, if not for a bit too sharp body texture for my tastes. last one feels like it's trying to be realistic, then changes its mind midway through, then decides against it again

>>564090598
why do you feel the need to avatarfag with the same picture every time?

>>564090598
>person known for terrible takes says the AI sloppified version looks the best
are you playing a character at this point?

>>564090598
You are in haloboy instances every night while getting railed on the side by randos from /trash/.
If there is anyone I trust least to tell me how great the /vrg/ instances they went to during the weekend were, it would be you.

>>564090598
Be my girlfriend (boyfriend)

>>564090463
I don't process my photos because I care about preserving memories, not trying to get other grown men to fuck me

>>564090463
>>564090674


also VRC lens helps a LOT. newfriend lapwing has it and I really need to get it now because it makes photos look 1000% better with a better depth of field effect than the default camera.

>vaseline makes photos look better

>>564091219
You could say that it smoothen things over

>>564091057
I like how you can tell the foid is just off camera.

>>564091057
>le blurry kino slider

>>564091301
kek

>>564091302
Yeah it really does. You know how your eyes blur over when you talk to women because you want to ignore them to focus on the men? depth of field is like that for a photograph, makes you focus on the more important things.

>>564091523
>You know how your eyes blur over when you talk to women because you want to ignore them to focus on the men?
I don't think that's normal anon. You should get your eyes checked out.

>>564090463
The filter is too much. It's a new image based on the original, not an enhancement of it. Brightening looks better than raw, for sure.

>>564091302
We need to bring back blurry kino shitposting

>>564091940
It's not quite as relevant anymore since far fewer people go nuclear with the kino slider these days

>>564043492
but i'm a boy...

>>564090463
I think the slopfilter looks good.

>>564090463
learn how to use shaders. You can have the middle picture by ticking 2 boxes on liltoon and with a personal light, matcaps and hmaps you can have the pic on the right (this will optimizationfags throw a violent meltdown)

im having fun with friends ive made off /vrg/ every weekend while entire thread of undesirables without friends cries out for an instance

>>564092806
why do you call them /vrg/ if they don't browse?

>>564093367
nice strawman bro, no wonder you had no instance to join over the weekend

>>564093638
i accept your concession rando-lover.

>>564090983
I visited 5 or so fairly decently sized instances, all of them populated by people I met through here. I personally don't see any problems with it. The criteria some people have for "what is a /vrg/ instance" seems insane at times.

And just have some common sense. "Have thick skin" only goes so far and even the people with the thickest skin will still spend their time doing things they enjoy vs doing things they don't enjoy.
The thread / any event you do / any instance you host is competing for people's time and attention and if you want to be successful you need to act in a way that makes people actually want to engage with you.
I see so much entitlement in the thread these days, basically people acting like you're not a good party member if you don't show up to some particular event or if you go to an "unapproved" instance. People who will absolutely shit themselves if you choose a discord server that's pleasant over a thread that trips over itself to be disagreeable.
I go to loooots of different instances and often times the "official vrg instance" is the same six people staring at a wall (or worse, a video player) and the people who are doing things or having interesting conversations are in the "haloboy instances of furries and randos" (which are actually just 95%+ people I met from here). Just screaming at people that they aren't 4chan enough for not doing what you want them to do doesn't go very far when you're boring and unpleasant.

>>564092320
Well yeah, but this is more for touching up random pictures I take of other people while we're hanging out where the lighting conditions aren't perfect, not a photoshoot environment.

I would really like to see a VRChat photoshoot tutorial, I am totally oblivious on how to make things look good even in a good environment

>>564093879
Yuru is literally a XIV rando. this is a funpost

>>564093670
no wonder people love randos more if the alternative is people like you

>>564093879
truth nuke

>>564094389
The settings on the VRC camera aren't that much different from what you'd find on an IRL camera. Just look up some basic photography tutorials on youtube and the same ideas apply to VRC photos. Rule of thirds etc.

>>564094908
Yeah, basic photography rules are easy to find so I am more wondering about the shader settings. How to make skin look really good on the photo before editing etc.

>>564095043
I'd love something like this too desu, I'm clueless when it comes to shader settings. I use the same Liltoon as everyone else but their shading, skin texture etc. always looks so much better than mine.

>>564086540

>>564089896
Last I checked ID is American.

i'm a newfag i don't know what a kon is

>>564086298
This is kind of true. I'm someone who has only been to one or two /vrg/ vrchat instances, and mainly play other games here. Thinking about getting into vrchat again, but all this doomposting about NA is making me think twice.

Come watch The Emperor's New Groove in half an hour.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120917/

>>564096032
If a little doomposting keeps you out of VR how much do you actually like VR. The thread is ALWAYS worse than the reality because the fact is: If you're posting you're probably not in VR, so people in VR aren't the people you're talking to.

>>564095835
Some sort of chibi fox creature. I saw a screenshot of about six people with avatars from our greatest and most alive timezone.

>people complain about NA having randos
>meanwhile EU instance had randos, tdas, and blackedfags

>>564086540
Nemlin...

Personally I find the thread less hostile than VRchat meetups.

>>564096184
Could've been seven people.

>>564086540
I actually don't, I don't get to take pics of/with friends if I'm having fun hanging out because all my attention is on them unless we're in the middle of an event or something.

Liger Zero is cool though(but not as cool as Lightning Saix) so I took a picture of him.

ahh, numbers! we need the numbers! we're contesting for popularity with other communities!! i will not have fun with those 5 specific other people, i need 80!

>>564096703
Liger Zero my beloved....

>>564090463
Use the fucking exposure slider on your camera holy FUCK dude it's not that hard.

>>564096359
The thread is hostile in a direct way while the meetups are hostile in an indirect way

>>564096739
In the same way we had the medieval, renascence, industrial and so on eras, we have been in the "bigger numbers" era since approximately 2008.

>oh noooo I don't get a whole crowd of orbiters swarming around me when I join the instance
>therefore they are indirectly hostile
holy persecution complex batman

let me hold you while we watch the 72 hour family guy videos on youtube

Finally, the perfect 3dgs...

>>564097312
>bed in the middle of the room instead of against a wall for more floor space for vr
ngmi

>>564096359
>>564097108
have you tried one of the activity instances?
People are very friendly on those.

>>564097764
in vrchat we just get in fbt and lay on our beds babe

Perfect place for a marathon

Cyberkino

>>564097782
NA mahjong sure as fuck isnt. i just wanted to watch since ive never played and they told me to either try playing or fuck off

>>564097108
I think it's because anonymous conflict stops existing as soon as one party stops replying, whereas in VRchat there are lasting identities.

>>564097874
>shitty splat of the world's ugliest building
>somehow looks better than it does in real life

>>564097098
iirc default vrchat camera's exposure slider is actually controlling brightness, not exposure. I tried it against VRCLens in a bright world once, i'd lose all the detail in bright areas with default camera even with "exposure" slider all the way down, meanwhile VRCLens was doing it properly. For a simple example, character was way too bright, VRCLens would crank it down so that environment is dark, but face looks normal, meanwhile normal camera would just make everything dimmer and yet face would still look like a plain gray slate of nothing, without even mouth being visible. Might depend on the world and setup though.

>>564097782
I used to, but got largely ignored because everyone was doing said activities. It doesn't seem like a great way to meet anyone.

>>564098128
were you on desktop?

The worst indirect hostility is when you try interacting with a group and they either don't reply while looking away or change subject entirely

>>564098389
Have you tried interacting with people by doing said activity together?

>>564098485
You didn't follow the countless unwritten social interaction conventions so you look weird and possibly a threat so they want you to metaphorically leave and die in the wilderness.

>>564098128
we've had multiple watchers before, tell us more anon

>>564099003
What are some of the unwritten social interaction conventions of /vrg/?

>>564096056
Groovin
https://vrch.at/rtyu06uf

>>564099085
>>564099003
>>564098485
the fact is /vrg/ and VRChat as a whole aren't the safe place to talk to other autists that it used to be. If you suck at social interaction irl, you'll suck at it in VRC, all the normalfags brought their unspoken rules in with them.

>>564099085
1. Cheers
2. Kippis
3. Kanpai
4. Fuck niggers, randos, furries and all that

if i think im gonna fall asleep should i mute or leave it unmuted and let people hear me snore

>>564081053
you could cut out all that rehearsal time if you recorded a video

>>564099428
nigga it's SLEEP, do it in your bed with the headset off and stop trying to be so performative about it

>>564099257
>say fuck niggers
>get reported by a rando that was recording

>>564099496
>he doesn't do performative sleep

>>564086540
image reminds me of puberty
>>564087142
grim

>>564099428
Either is fine as long as you keep the sps active

>>564089365
totally and completely forgotten
not remembered

if i think im gonna eat should i mute or leave it unmuted and let people hear me chew

if i think im gonna poop should i mute or leave it unmuted and let people hear me shit

Lapwing...

>>564099496
but if im watching a movie with the bros i'm laying in bed........ why would i stand there.......

I think im gonna goon should I mute or leave it and let people hear the slaps

>>564099968
grim

>>564091301
okay i kekd

>>564099354
>gay guy likes hamster wheels

>>564099252
It's probably even worse than in real life because the limitations of VR cause a hyperfixation on the remaining social cues that are reliably transmitted over the internet. It is accepted that people will be sitting in fucked up IK poses, have body parts randomly fly away, incorrect facial expressions are displayed, and so on. You're being judged almost exclusively on how you use your voice and thus to a much higher standard than in real life.

>>564100924
i hyperfixate on the avatars mostly then voice, if you don't look like a booth model i will be interacting with you much less without saying anything

>>564099968
keep 'em feet coming

>>564101515
>if you aren't paying for boothslop I won't interact with you
grim

>>564101515
Please, and I mean this as sincerely as possible, kill yourself

>>564101792
>>564101753
You play a game where you can look like anything and you choose to look like a dysgenic mentally unstable freak? Consider yourself judged.

>>564101753
>pay
Heh.

Switching to a booth didn't make my interactions with people better but made them worse somehow...

>>564101515
This is essentially VR fashion.

>>564098485
When I see this in the wild, it's typically because the attempting interactor:
- hasn't listened to the ongoing conversation long enough to streamline into it's context cleanly
- is trying to hijack the conversation
- is positioned in a way is ignoring half of the participants and alienating them (ie. you're the hostile)
- said something so cringe/grim that no one wants to be associated with them or the thing they've just said

>>564101975
What did you switch from?

You can hate it all you want, but it doesn't mean he's wrong

>>564102326
It's just because come across as awkward. A loud, confident person could simultaneously do all of that and seamlessly join in regardless.

>>564102350
I'd rather not say

>>564102965
It was an inanimate object, wasn't it?

>need to solve some clipping
>try EreMorph for the first time
>its magic

Who even needs blender at this point?

>>564103052
It was an anime girl, but that's all I will say

>>564103149
wish there was eremorph but with lattice modifier

>>564102693
not sure how much I agree with Point 1, but point 2 is pretty fair, point 3 is fair to an extent. I feel extremely out of place around gumroad models as a booth, but I think there's a wide margin of divergence of what's "fashionable" allowed, and not much pressure to conform.

>>564103181
Was it ugly?

>>564103223
>>564102693
I think a more accurate point 1 is that most men have never been called cute, attractive, or had people show interest in them without them having to initiate first. That can be a very tempting drug to someone who'd never experienced it IRL

>>564103360
I don't know that's a subjective question and doesn't change the fact that the new one should have been an improvement

>>564102693
Who

>>564103641
No, not him.

>>564102693
Who the fuck is using a booth only because they want to fit in? I'm an anime girl because I want to be a cute anime girl and I think cute anime girls are cute, and that is an expression of the self in its own way.

>>564103618
You may have traded something unique for a generic NPC avatar that generates less interest.

>>564103929
>Who the fuck is using a booth only because they want to fit in?
Me

>>564093879
trvthnuke, fuck it ill redditspace for clarity

even if the whole 'make instance and sit around for 40 minutes while a total of 4 people join and eventually leave' problem was solved
after x amount of years sitting around in an instance with the same exact people over and over is boring eventually, just because some of you say nigger it doesnt mean you're interesting or fun
you go out to the bar with friends to have new experiences to hang together with people you like

i usually have way more fun joining a public or non-vrg instance off a random jp or chill public friend and having a good handful of anons with me than I do in the majority of the 95% vrg instances anymore, at least for NA
when we're in a massive instance of 95% vrg, when everyone has the same thing in common then theres no comradery at this point, but when theres only a couple of you its fun to stick together like a party descending the dungeon

i have chats with anons i never talk to in regular vrg instances and we get the added fun of being able to fuck with pubbies and have RNG encounters pop up
we dont have to wear 4chan pins and say nigger constantly to know that we have a shared unspoken little connection/bond, even if we never talk regularly or at all in 'true vrg instances' we know of eachothers existences enough to have us group together

also no rando filtering means nobody has a need to want to get into a walled garden and sneak in as a trojan horse fake anon so you never have to deal with that nonsense and you can just act like regular people around them, the randos are no longer seen as boogeymen, but as lower life forms as they should be that you and your buddies laugh about later on and can mess with

>>564104476
Are you at least customising according to your interests and fetishes?

>>564103929
When polled a few years ago, a lot of people said they're only using anime girls because it's the easiest option or the fit in. Kinda grim.

I switched to booth because they are the only good bodies to use for custom avatars
What else do you want to use? MMD? It's not 2018 anymore

>>564104657
Interests yes, fetishes no. I don't like broadcasting those for everyone to see.

>>564099585
>image reminds me of puberty
which one were you?

>>564104920
neither i wasn't goth

>>564104758
Grim post.

Using a male or boy avatar drastically decreases your chances of having interactions with people

I want to be a wizard with a pipe and a big long beard in VR but then nobody would talk to the weird old man so I use a booth girl instead.

>>564104897
Congratulations. You made an expression of yourself.

Years ago, a /vrg/ anon who doesn't browse anymore told me -

"A lot of us use VR to escape our real world problems, but we ended up bringing our problems in with us"

I still think about that a lot

>>564105034
Booth + mmd is the only way forward unless you like being stuck in the past forever

>>564105127
I 100% would talk to a long bearded wizard because it would be funni

>>564105150
But I never wanted to be an anime girl at all.

I talk to anyone who responds, even if we don't end up holding a conversation.
Not furries, though. I do not talk to animals.

>>564105150
If your bar for self-expression is low enough then picking your booth model in any way other than at random will be an expression of yourself.

>>564105115
I manage just fine

>>564105115
Only if it's a normal looking male body. Twinks and shotas still get showered with attention.

NA anime tonight at 10pm est in vrchat
starting the new season
https://rentry.org/i3t5ozt8

Tongari Boushi no Atelier - 01
Tongari Boushi no Atelier - 02
Yomi no Tsugai - 01
Yomi no Tsugai - 02

and we will begin two other new airing shows on Wednesday. Will post instance link when it's up

>>564105127
Yes I'd rather you be a wizard bitch with a pointy hat
It's infinitely more pleasing to the eyes
Bonus points if you fully cover yourself with a robe and only wearing lingerie underneath

>>564105506
You still have a chance to fix it all. Open unity. Make whatever male avatar or what ever you wanted to make. You seem to have been around for a bit, so people willl still recognise you.

>>564105127
why would you want to look like an old man when you'll eventually look that that irl anyway and you could be cute instead?

What if you're autistic and mute most of the time?

>>564105546
Yes, anon, choosing one of the 100+ unity models because they appeal to you is a form of self expression. It is a basic one, but if you choose your favourite, add onto it, add your favourite clothes, then you would find that you are, in fact, expressing yourself.

>>564105127
I only act weird/get quieter around desktoppers, most decent people have zero issues being friendly with non booths. The kinds of people that treat you weird just because you're not a girl avatar aren't really the kinds of people that are worth interacting with anyway.
>nobody would talk to the weird old man
*Nobody would flirt with you
>>564105353
> we ended up bringing our problems in with us
You're saying this like it's some grand moral failure of VR users instead of an unescapable property of being human. This isn't something we should lament, rather, it's something we have to learn to live with while still thriving.

>>564105115
it does but then you realize its quality vs quantity
theres people that have been in vrg for 6+ years that go "wait who tf is that?" when you bring up people like animewatch+lonelyfeels+dinnercircle hosting SMR's name up even though they've been in his instances or been around him for years, but he never uses femalebait avatars
you get astonished at first theyve never heard of him or talked to him, but also realize the people who dont know him are the ones that just go jerk off all the time and thats their entire personality
its hollow attention and validation, people complain that women get easy attention but fail to really acknowledge that the majority of the people who give women easy attention are simps that just want to sex them
ill take people who are actually interesting and fun to be around interacting with me over people that are only interacting with me because of some unspoken urge to want to masturbate with me anyday of the week

>>564105869
It's over.

>>564046237
Beybabes

>>564105991
>people like animewatch+lonelyfeels+dinnercircle
Literally who?

>>564102693
I think it's partly true, but not correct to say it's categorically true. I wish I could find that other paper on the subject that studied flat mmorpgs that observed that all-male player groups where everyone used female avatars were more likely to have positive social interactions than groups where at least one player used a male avatar.

>>564106527
so you're saying if we ban all male avatars, our social interactions will improve?
I like it, total moid death now

>>564105912
It's an expression of my personal tastes; Less so in the way of my real life identity or gender, which is was what the twitter post was criticising. For me it's also a decision not solely made for self-expression as considering how others will treat me and whether that avatar has any situational utility plays a significant role.
We rightfully will kick people for certain forms of self-expression after all.

>>564105127
they are only interested in esex

>>564106527
>the male avatar users really were ruining /vrg/ all this time

With the current state of NA and EU, I'm gonna switch to SEA too

>>564107038
most male avatar users ESPECIALLY in /vrg/ are just a bunch of obnoxious fucks

The Basis open sores 1000 player test was a success, mostly. Cool to see the shitshow. You can thankfully hide furries (not racis' just don't loik em)

>>564106748
>>564107038
the study didn't draw any such conclusions. It simply presented the data as it was. It was interesting though that all it took was one male avatar to change the whole group's behavior.

>want to do another themed event just because i want to make a funny outfit and see my friends also wearing it
>dont want to host an event or be relegated to having to tardwrangle or get locked in an empty instance

if i just announce that on Month/Day i'm going to make and wear a wizard/magic themed avatar all night and call it orb ponderment day, would other anons be interested in knowing and joining in

wizard rules 1 and 2, dont breathe a word about it to trashfags or non blue-thread browsers and on the day of if anyone asks just go "?? bro you forgot about the day of orb ponderment?" and then we all just share and show off the cool magic tech that we were able to find when we see eachother and laugh at the muggles that cant cast sick spells

>>564107256
even the boys/shota?

>>564099139
Thanks for watching, just a short comedic movie but still soulful. On break next week so in a fortnight. Maybe it'll be Kung Fu Panda 4.

>>564106527
>all-male player groups where everyone used female avatars were more likely to have positive social interactions than groups where at least one player used a male avatar
Unsurprising that it's the most stable group of players when they're all on the same page.
Every dude that plays a female character is prepared for the next female character they meet to be a dude in real life. The guys who play male characters perform all sorts of mental gymnastics hoping they're talking to a real girl when they're almost certainly not. Throw a real woman in there and that balance gets destroyed even more.

>>564107448
>dont breathe a word about it to trashfags
reposting it to /vrlg/ and /vrfg/ as soon as it gets posted

>>564107490
yes

>>564107448
Set a date anon, and I will join you on this quest

>>564107490
One of the worst members of /vrg/ is a boy/shota.

>>564107801
whomst

>>564107757
eh its just a loose roleplay funny rule desu, if they end up finding out then who cares we can just laugh at the muggles that were too lazy to make an outfit that cant cast spells

>>564107448
>rules 1 and 2
holy fuck you're such a newfag retard
sent this info to techgangster's server tho

tfw kicked out of basis for impersonating tupper and screaming "cancel your VRC+ subscription it's so over vrchat is finished i kneel basis"

>>564107915
its just meant to be sillyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
besides
with your attitude it sounds like you're probably gonna be some filthy little muggle im gonna wizardmog by levitating your wallet out of your pocket and over your head

>>564107884
The fr*nch boat

>>564107275
it did in fact run at full fps (on bigmeme 2 with a 4090 fwiw). It's unity URP which likely helps, vs BRP which vrchat will be stuck with for all eternity. The audio was super choppy at load though, couldn't understand people past the ~600 player mark. I think they need to increase their jitter/playout buffers, which looking at the code are currently fixed to 160ms. Turning on opus FEC would also probably help.

>>564108093
I kneel, king

>>564107884
gem I

>>564108304
haloniggers aren't /vrg/ and haven't been for years

>>564108186
which one

>>564108093
>search about basis
>it's a "framework"

So someone has to make a VRChat on it first? Instead of worlds, people make standalone games?

>>564107884
cab

lesson learned, don't impersonate tupper and cry that vrchat's end time is nigh
https://streamable.com/7ekbwz

>>564108204
grimlineup

Same video with audio https://streamable.com/n1tltn . This was with ~300 real clients IIRC. The other 700 clients they added to get to 1000 were synthetic bots (though still transmitting audio and stuff). Impressive even so.

>>564109032
you need to be over the age of 18 to post here

>>564108601
kancolle z1

is this basis shit some discord troon shit? no one talked about it in the past few days

>>564105681
Nice picks

>>564109209
Essentially yes. You can technically just clone the repo at https://github.com/BasisVR/Basis and run your own server, but like most modern projects the comms are all shitcord.

Video games!

>>564107275
>>564108204
Will basis save us from vrchat?

>>564109549
Only if I can insert my futa gock into other dudes

Alright fuck it
May 8th shall be The Day of Orb Ponderment.
I will be wearing wizard attire and sharing whatever arcane knowledge I am able to find with other wizards in the form of cool gimmick systems that I'll probably customize
If anyone would like to also create a wizard and share cool spells feel free
There will be no map
There will be no timeslot
I'll just be roaming the timezones and instances looking for fellow brethren who have devoted themselves to the arcane.
I shall be researcing to find the coolest spells I can to add to my (definitely way thicker than yours) [grim]oire
If you think you can impress me with your wizard drip and manapool, feel free to try, I do love an exchange of techniques.
I will be honing my Arts Against the Muggles such as my signature technique, cube of transparency and hopefully perfect it.

If any other wizards or warlocks want to provide me a high-five, show off some spells, or give emotional gratification, please do so.
If any muggles wish to provide me sexual gratification
ew.
Thank you, and please remember:
I am now CHANNELING

>>564108204
>It's unity URP

The same type of shaders used for gacha games and vtubers? Finally, some good fucking ERP.

>>564108984
this guy's a weirdo

>>564109753
sending some grim energy your way.

>>564109753
I shall bring my strongest potions to bring you down you mad wizard

>>564109549
Basis is a framework to make games, not a finished product. It's, again tied to proprietary Unity engine, it's not a saviour. V-Sekai with Godot might be eventually our saviour.

>>564109096
If this ends up being user friendly and (sexcompatible(sexsells)) enough, I can see it actually being a competitor. I would love to have an actually usable vr platform that doesnt limit what I can make or do in the same way, or hell just not make me lag if there are over 40 people in an instance

Marrow Marrow at brutal difficulty is very challenging and fun

>>564109753
>>564110107
Also cool wizards will be captured with my lens of timefreeze and be placed within my [SOVL]stone [grim]oire of cool pictures
I will also be announcing to the grand wizard council the top 3 coolest spells I see, there WILL be awards given out to the wizards with the biggest managains and sickest casts

>>564102693
My booth anime girl avatar actually makes many people avoid approaching me, but I have absolutely no plans to change it.

THE WIDOW HAS ARRIVED

>>564102693
no one likes me or the way my avatars look......................................................................................................................................................

>>564111083
You are leaving out some information anon...
Information that would help determine why, and i think you know what you didnt list

>>564105869
>autistic
You'll fit right in.
>mute
Using a small avatar and acting cute will make people like you.
Their opinion about you will likely change the moment they hear your adult man voice.

>>564111434
don't bullshit people
if you're mute and not interacting with people you'll get forgotten instantly

>>564111434
googoo gaga

>>564108186
What did he do?
Aside from being french.

>>564103407
honestly, at least for me, i think it's the result of media and what we thing is cool. i had to sit and stare at my wall and think about when and why i chose to make female characters for myself. the late 2000s i started getting in to anime, loads of my favourite shows had females being badass, and i wanted to make cool female characters - especially when my peers all loved sportsball and soldiermans. even besides anime, i loved totally spies, atomic betty, kim possible and lots more.
when Heavensward came out and I picked up XIV, I could drop all my male WoW characters I had sunk time in to, and was free to make a cool female character, and since then basically every character I make in a game has been female, including VRC, ofcourse.

>>564087484
Try joining the NA pool instance on Saturdays
Also the poker instance and NA explo instance during the week

>>564111132

>>564105869
>>564111535
Autistic is fine
Quiet is fine
Mute though, probably wont work. Since your autistic, you most likely dont have overdone physical movements. Mutes are second class citizens and forgotten. Being mute in vr is unironically harder and you need to be more socially active than talkers BECAUSE you have to be interesting enough to get people to pay attention and try to understand you, while only being able to rely on body movements, pens, and chat messages.

Everybody here is on the spectrum in some way, legit just let your autism fly. You'll get bashed by some people but youll get bashed by them either way and/or worse if you are mute

So either make top tier SEXO model and move more than anybody else
Or just speak a lil so people don't forget you exist

>>564104650
>this whole post
Ok it’s time to do the /vrg/ meets other communities of VRchat event!
Finally the needle is turning and I can finally setup the meet and greets

You guys are finally getting it.
I’ve always wanted to make a meet and greet with various other communities of vrchat starting with LPD (Loli police Department)

>>564105869
I think a lot of people should take a step back and honestly ask themselves what they hope to gain from interacting with people. If you only poorly define your objectives as something along the lines of "talk to people" or "get more popular" even though you do not naturally enjoy either of these things, then I think your outcomes will be poor.
If the goal is friends, then do an activity that you genuinely enjoy and find other people that do it and discuss said activity
If the goal is to simply talk to people, then just ask someone how they're doing and talk.
If the goal is attention, then make a hot booth and become the town bike.
Being a mute is very compatible with some goals and less compatible with others, but you have to define these goals first.

>>564112813
nah, dont go around as /vrg/ with a banner over our head or anything
just go around with other anons when you both know you have vrg in common
if you have to go around and tell people you're 4chan thats lamer than just hanging with anons because you're anons mr bait-kun

>>564111797
Check the archives (both blue and red boards)

>>564111893
Nice vids anon, I need to practice more I am too old for these games.

>>564112813
no
bro
i hope this is bait because you didn't understand at all

>>564103407
>>564111801
In flat games. Its all story vs looks. If both groups have the same general quality, I choose whichever I feel i can relate to the story with better, if that doesnt matter its who has better armor and visual

For vrc in particular. It started as an escape from my norm irl. I wanted to be seen as cute ect ect, I only played this game after some ego death irl. I lied to myself originally but looking back I can say that i 100% wanted to "be cute and liked" vs always being the intiator. I still enjoy it, but my overall perspective on life has changed a lot since then. Female models 100% get your foot in the door easier than male models when it comes to conversing and general attitude you get hit with. You can see this by using literally any male model. Whether on purpose or not, its very consistently harder to use a male model imo.
I started with male, to femboy, to flat chest female to female, to trying androgeny, to just making a man properly and using everything inbetween depending how I feel now.
There is a clear difference in peoples willingness to speak to you in a male model vs female. Ect ect. (There is also a clear difference in male model quality because they get less sales)
>Pic related in my opinion because the Nakiya base has the blendshape autism of a female base to change literally everything, when most male faces have miniscule blendshapes in comparison to say, shinano.
He still starts as just "lasyusha but male"

I think the discussion has a lot more nuance. I can rant about the social aspects of male in vr vs female in vr for hours. Thing is, the answers are probably more stupid and gay than you think

>>564107239
Welcome aboard mate. Just make sure to sleep early so you can wakeup for SEA hrs at 3AM your time if you’re NA.

>>564107275
Very very cool. I’m so excited for this

>>564113942
what nuance is there even? men like to give attention to cute girls, and like getting attention from cute girls. therefore they will always prefer the company of cute girls.
it's not some bizarre psychology bullshit, you're way over thinking it

>autistic
>shit avatar
>shittier personality
>woman voice
>still swarmed with attention

>>564114180
Welcome to VRChat

>>564107448
Magic particle effects as a theme huh. That could be fun. The orbs are mandatory yeah? i’m a high participator though, better ask more anons

>>564102693
That last post wss basically all about 1 and 3
But for post 2.
A lot of people make models they find attractive, me included. I feel like that can be argued as self expression also, but as with psychology and sociology. We dont have shit for concrete answers

>>564113906
I can barely survive on Brutal difficulty, some people on the leaderboard are crazy good.