the daikon legged girls

VRchat has no right having as much community support as it does

>>90306
it has a pretty strong monopoly in terms of becoming the little girl, as you can see from the OP

this thread reminded me to check a channel i haven't looked at in a while and they've barely uploaded anything since i last looked

>>90306
It was definitely at the right place at the right time. It's interesting to see the tech and creations, but I'd feel too weird to use it. Maybe if there's a text-only server so I don't need to listen to people talking.

>>90327
Needing voice is the killer for me, and it's the same for everyone I've talked to on the chans as they're all recluses too. Interactable chatroom seems to be a niche that has a lot of potential. Like gmod with tons of plugins to watch stuff, play games, chat, sit on people's heads, etc. but doesn't cost a chunk of change and need something like steam.
VR is also another turn off until it's cheap enough since I could probably count on one hand the users here that has a whole VR setup. But in a perfect world it would be really cool.

>>90331
It's a bit weird how 3D chatrooms were a huge "coming soon!" technology that was hyped up by a lot of different people back in the late 90s. Even regular news would show a story on the future awaiting us in a few years. There were attempts to market in Second Life later on, but to very mixed results.
Voice really does kill it, yeah. For people with the right combination of social-ness and 3D expertise it seems amazing, but I can't count myself as one of former. Well, that and it's Unity which is usually associated with mobile stuff so it's not an engine I'd want to spend time learning.
I did like how the online cons that Japan was doing during covid (maybe still today?) usually has an offline world where you could walk around to visit the NPC vendors without seeing other people.

>>90337
Honestly with AI you'd think there'd be some revival or innovation in the idea. Voice to text sounds like a great application to combine with VR to make interaction more seamless. I mean, we are already used to reading subtitles, so putting subs on other people could be easy to get used to. Imagine some yukkuri or miku babble to plays from your character to give the audio cue you're speaking, and your conversation partner reads the sub or chatlog if it prints to it. You could talk without using your keyboard in VR. With how much effort has gone into some of these maps it's almost a shame it's stuck behind that tech barrier, you could get really immersed with it. In a perfect world anyway.

>>90342
There are already some vtubers combining STT + TTS to avoid voice reveal. The same can be used in VR too.

>>90331
I thought the game had support for people who don't have a full VR setup, but I would imagine you would miss out on some of the wackier things you could do like dancing. I downloaded it a while ago - I adore the concept of 3D chatrooms and some of the applications I've seen like selling virtual clothing - but haven't tried playing it.

>>90331
>Needing voice is the killer for me
There's a sizeable "mute" community on VRChat. Very common to see people using the chatbox to talk to people instead of speaking verbally. If you just don't want to have other people hear your voice, there's also a "speech-to-text-to-speech" program that's very popular called "TTS Voice Wizard"; can be hosted locally and uses Whisper for voice recognition and combined with voice synthesizers like TikTok, which provides a free voice synthesizer with many different voices. I've done both and people are very understanding.

>VR is also another turn off until it's cheap enough
VR IS cheap! A used Quest 2 by itself is ~$100-$150, and the Quest 3 is around ~$250-300 used. Both are capable of playing VRChat without a dedicated PC. The headset itself does all the processing.

Full-body tracking with or without a PC is also possible using SlimeVR trackers. A third-party set is ~$100 (Check marketplace-forum), and official trackers are $200. The server for connecting the trackers doesn't need a PC either. It can be run on the headset itself! You can even DIY them because the entire project is open source.

>>90331
VR is one of those technologies where it's clear there's some great potential in it, but nobody really figures out how to use it so all you can really use it for is niche tech demo "this is so cool" stuff and getting your rocks off to slightly different porn styles. It would probably be as big as genAI if it didn't have expensive hardware requirements.

>>90349
Ah, yeah TTS would solve the difficulty talking and hide accents and stuff, huh? That's a good idea. Maybe a server where it's mandatory would be a cool idea.

>>90355
Well, that's good to hear. Still feels like a social barrier has to be broken through, but it's a shorter one.

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>>91849
the terminal stage of foxoplasmosis: becoming the little fox

>>91851
dear god…

>>91849
This is what VR was invented for. Now you can be the little girl!

>>90331
vrfag here
for quite a while i was a mute too, but eventually i got tired of typing everything out in game and i honestly felt like i was wasting anyones time who bothered to interact with me, so i took the dive into using my voice and over time i got alot more comfortable with it
>>90342
i know people that use voice to text in game now, it works quite well but doesn't it seem like a pointless middleman? you're speaking anyways
>>90355
slime trackers suck bro.... unless you get the most expensive ones which can be pretty good actually (i own them)

A shut-in I talk to says he uses it for school.