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Why So Many VRChat Users Play as Female Anime Avatars
Why do so many VRChat users look like cutesy anime girls, anyway? If you assume the snarky and simplistic answer is, “Because it’s full of otaku geeks with a weird waifu fetish”, watch this video which suggests the actual story is much deeper and far more fascinating than that. Created by “Strasz”, who’s becoming something of an anthropologist of VRChat on YouTube, his insights are based in part on a survey of over 200 hardcore VRChat users, heavily skewed (at 85%) toward people who access the virtual world through a VR headset. His thesis for why so many VRChatters play as female anime avatars, he tells me, boils roughly down…
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Co-founder of Valve believes brain interfaces will create games superior to reality
Brain-computer interface technology, or BCI, is the future of immersive gaming says Gabe. Gabe Newell says the future of gaming may lie in brain-computer interface technology, or BCI for short. In an interview with 1 NEWS, a television network in Newell’s home away from home, New Zealand, the co-founder of Valve talks about his vision of what gaming might look like once powered by BCI tech and it sure sounds immersive at a level us mere mortals could hardly imagine—or existentially scary. Take your pick. Valve is currently working on an open-source BCI software project, he tells 1 NEWS, which would allow game developers to begin interpreting the signals within…
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Microsoft Could Bring You Back From The Dead… As A Chat Bot
by Barry Collins Microsoft has filed a patent which raises the intriguing possibility of digitally reincarnating people as a chat bot. Instead of using the conventional method of training chat bots using conversations and material from a wide sample of users, Microsoft’s patent – as spotted by Ubergizmo – raises the possibility of creating a chat bot from the output of a specific person. The system would use “social data” such as “images, voice data, social media posts, electronic messages [and] written letters” to build a profile of a person. MORE
