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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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The wild world of VRChat is a joyful antidote to these dark times
by Joseph Volpe Want to soar around a floating iridescent tree in a neon-lit, Tron-inspired atrium with one arm outstretched like some virtual Superman? Or perhaps you’re the type who’d prefer to hang around an “Ancient Art Museum” offering dating advice to strangers engaged in strained virtual romances? Maybe you just want to park your avatar in front of a mirror at “The Void” club and chat up cute femboys and girls on the off chance you’ll get a lap dance and experience the phenomenon known as phantom touch. Or you could explore The Great Plateau from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and quite literally become Link. …
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HBO Launches ‘Westworld Awakening’ VR Game
Ever wanted to enter the world of “Westworld?” Now you can — except it won’t exactly be like you might have imagined it. Instead of being one of those guests living out their fantasies, you will be a host, slowly coming to grips with your life being an elaborate illusion.
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‘No Man’s Sky’ VR Review – A Wonderful, Deeply Flawed Space Odyssey
By Gabriel Moss – Aug 19, 2019 Beyond the known world is a galaxy of infinite exploration and endless possibility. That is, of course, until you meet your end at the whim of an angry detachment of Sentinels, or breathe in too many atmospheric toxins and collapse on the surface of some backwater planet. With over “18 quintillion” procedurally-generated planets to explore, there’s heaps to see (and flee in terror from) in No Man’s Sky VR. While No Man’s Sky developer Hello Games has called the new BEYOND update the ‘2.0’ version of the game, No Man’s Sky’s brand new VR support feels like ‘1.0’ in many key respects, jarringly…
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LAVR Tag is the incredible arena-scale laser tag game
LAVR Tag creates an untethered VR experience that could be the next big thing for the Oculus Quest and VR. The Oculus Quest provides an untethered VR experience that, in many ways, can’t be delivered through any other headset. The lack of wires or external sensors and the fact that it doesn’t require a PC or phone to operate opens it up to liberating VR experiences. Games like SUPERHOT VR and Sports Scramble are incredible on the Quest thanks to the fact that you can run around without any worries of the wires that have historically encumbered VR gaming. Now, MANUVR Entertainment is taking that to the next level with…
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