VRChat

“It is impressive but still suffers from the barrier to entry problem.”

“some of them are very complex & are telling stories by their environments that could be comparable to standalone VR games”

“the new user experience/children yelling slurs situation makes it hard to even bring up to general audiences”

“VRChat has been a godsend of socialization and authenticity”

“a core VR experience that continues seeing average player count increases YoY”

“alive and very active, doing verz innovative and almost marvelous things”

“Just spend one night in VRChat and everything Meta did will look like Plato's cave shadows.”

“One thing that VRChat did lack and horizons had is an in-app builder though.”

“VRchat is impressive. It predates the metaverse boom, and it's not a big-world system.”

“The only thing I regularly used a VR headset for, was to join clubs and socialize in VRchat during covid lockdowns.”

“VR Chat continues to grow, driven by young people who worked through the problems.”

“very little headroom for user-generated content in systems like Horizon Worlds and VRChat”

“You should give VRChat a try, the predecessor and more successful version of Horizon Worlds.”

“we've had several mature implementations over the years - VRChat, Second Life”

“unfortunate bad practices of the platform reportedly taking a sizeable cut”

“worse than VRchat, a product by a company many many times smaller”

“Then VRChat got big and seemed to be better than Horizon Worlds for… everything.”

“VRChat is just plain better. It doesn't look like a Nintendo 64 game”

“VRChat just being the plain superior product in almost every regard, especially for social spaces”

“VRChat is reaching record popularity and user counts with tiny fraction of the budget Facebook wasted”

“VRChat in comparison is more popular and doesn't feel like a soulless corporate husk”

“They could basically just dumped a much less money into VRChat”

“VRChat is thriving and some other similar envronments being quite popular as well.”

“This can be seen possibly as even more invasive in this case”

“Beat Saber & VRChat succeeded not because of tech, but because they solved for "embodied meaning”

“Not perfectly, there's a lot abuse of gravity or the lack thereof”

“VRChat has immense worlds compared to anything in Horizon.”

“It was great, I made friends, I spent time socializing for its own sake on a daily basis for hours.”

“the system that are shaped in this form is set up to be a money pit”

“If you put on a headset and go in VRChat right now, you too can have the same experience.”

“generally VRChat is like a masked ball with a combination of alcoholics, repressed perverted losers, obnoxious personalities and children”

“The dozen or so times I tried it, I had the above experience. I deleted it and never looked back.”

“can be tricky if you don't have access to the original email anymore”

“On one end you have Second Life and VRChat, which should absolutely have a no kids policy.”

“VRChat requires very detailed Unity knowledge. You really need to be a developer for that.”

“there is value in maintaining long-distance relationships with a sense of presence”

“VRChat is one of the most socially dysfunctional online platforms I've ever used”

“the scripting language in VRChat is 200X-1000X slower than normal Unity scripting”

“it was always incredibly jank and barely functional”

“VRChat is way better at finding the edge of what's possible”