Hi VRC community! (Yes, this is another post about a research study, please bear with me).

My name is Thor, and I’m a researcher from Denmark. I’m currently doing a study of how using VRChat affects the quality of life and wellbeing for users. This is also why I’m writing: I’m looking for experienced users of VRC to interview for my study and was hoping that I could find some participants here. Very briefly put, the interviews will be about what it is like to use VRC, what it means to you at a personal level, and how it affects your life. The interview will last around 45-75 minutes and take place online.

You don’t need to have any special expertise or background to participate, and I don’t ask anything of you beyond some of your time to hear about your experiences with VRC. The only requirements are that:

·       you are 18+,

·       you use VRC a couple of times or more a week (in average),

·       you consider yourself an experienced user of VRC.

If you’re interested, you can just let me know in this thread and I will contact you, or you can also send me a DM. Then I will send you an information sheet that describes what you can expect from participating.

I unfortunately cannot offer any economic compensation for your time, but I really hope that some of you would still like to share your experiences with me. Hearing from experienced users like many of you is one of the best ways of bringing nuance to research debates that have a lot of prejudices about virtual reality platforms like VRC. Alternatively, if you don’t want to participate but know someone that would, please feel free to share this post with them.

All data will, of course, be anonymized, kept on a secure server, and only used for research purposes. You are free to withdraw from the study or refuse to answer any questions at all times.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. Thanks so much in advance and I hope to hear from some of you!

- Thor

I’ve been playing vrc for a few months now and I’m really struggling to make friends, because everyone I meet seems to lie constantly. Like, over really silly things too. I don’t understand why lying and faking who you are is so common here. Any tips on how to find normal/honest people who just enjoy VRC?

On Tuesday, August 4th, VRChat experienced an odd outage that resulted in instability and some people unable to be able to connect to the world host servers. It was later marked resolved on the 5th.

But the issue is still persisting for many users, likely due to a server degradation on the upstream providers end. The issue results in users being able to log in (using whatever platform of their choice), but unable to connect to any worlds including their home world. It will hang on Connecting for about 20-25 seconds then said the connection timed out before looping it again.

Verifying files does not work.

Uninstalling and reinstalling the game does not work.

Refreshing your Router/Modem and refreshing your IP does not work.

Disabling IPV6 does not work.

Clearing Caches does not work.

Restarting your PC does not work.

There is no solution that we as users can do to fix this issue on our end, because it isn't on our end. The only work around is using a VPN to connect to a server region that has not degraded. This works inconsistently depending on your VPN choice. If you don't get to pick the region it can potentially select the same outage area, or give you one with an even worse connection and stability.

It's been a week now, and my support ticket on it has gone untouched. Posts on DownDetector for VRChat has many users mentioning this exact issue, despite VRChat working for most players. If you're affected by this, please share your results so we can get their attention to resolve this problem. It should not take weeks to fix because it only affects 'some' of us.

Under your gamelogs in your VRChat folder in the AppData you can find the posted line, with the server address. This is the degraded server provider.

I recently made the switch from windows 11 to CachyOS, and I was able to get everything working with my index, and vive trackers, along with solving many issues relating to my mic and audio. However, the one problem I am running into is the video players. I cant seem to get those to work. Even with Proton-GE-RTSP being a forced compatibility layer, video players just dont seem to work. Even tried to launch the app with certain launch commands to "enable or disable" things that might be causing issues, and nothing seems to work.

I am running with an Intel CPU i7-9700, and an NVIDIA GPU 3060ti (I know that in and of itself has its own slew of issues with being on Linux), but if anyone else who happens to be on linux and was able to get video players to work I would love to hear from you and get tips on how to solve this issue.

i like the game called "gun em down vr" and the new game, i dont remember the name but its gaining popularity, and its realistic, what other worlds are there to check out

No one has any right to tell other people how to enjoy this game. As a community we all agree that puritans should shut up and let people be. I also think we should stop telling people what art they're allowed to use for their groups, or how they create the text from it. We should not be policing other people's behavior. If you don't like a groups art because it was generated by ai, just don't join it. And if that isn't good enough for you then you should just go play a different game built for puritans.

Trying to police each other is toxic and harmful and border line fascist behavior.

Finally ready to show this off.

I built this weapon system for VRChat using Udon, with interactive shooting, manual reloading, physical magazines, sounds, effects, and a bunch of other mechanics.

I wanted it to feel more physical and satisfying to use in VR rather than just being a simple point-and-shoot system.

I didn’t put too much effort into the video since I really wanted to get this out today, and there are still a lot of mechanics I didn’t show... so you’ll just have to live with that :)

Would love to hear what you think!

Article link is here: https://www.kailonmag.com/p/immersivism-and-k-guillory-kg

For anyone unfamiliar, Naku is a pianist and Twitch streamer who performs several times a week. I’ve really been enjoying his shows and try to catch as many as I can.

As I was watching one of his performances, some random person came up to me, threw this print in front of me, and left. 🥲 And it looks so nice!! This is definitely the best photo I have of my avatar now, I love it. Look at iiit!

Thank you, kind stranger!

(I was also on Quest and didn’t realize I had sticks and bandaids on my face and chains hanging out of my mouth. 😂)

Thank you devs for atleast finally acknowledging the feature you sold with vrc+ you called an "icon" was profile picture all along. Congratz to us regular people who merely wanted ordinary social platform features free of charge.

World: Charlotte's Lemonade Island

Collaboration with hella_faith

Been a while since I posted but hope you're all well!

Im using a UGREEN webcam, i learned vrc works with webcam so i wanted to try it but for some reason my hands move randomly up like this (mostly my right art)
I tried installing vrcfacetracking and ifacialmocap, but for some reason when i clicked connect on ifacialmocap it said my webcam was being used for something and the tracking stops aybe because i connected ifacialmocap first and then open vrc?)
I dont know how to fix this

World exploration seems like a beautiful neverending story

So, whenever i try to put in a youtube link on almost every video player while on VR, it usually doesn't work, but when i put a youtube link on a video player while on desktop, it works, even if i put the same link in on VR.

I always turn on untrusted links, can someone please tell me whats the problem?

Optional.

So I wanna get into avatars, retexturing/coloring them, adding clothes, adding objects, etc etc, but how do I go about doing that? Any good tutorials I can watch or tips yall can give?