Recap of VR Exploders Meeting in VRChat
Published: September 22, 2020 by Dr. Pat Franks
On the third Friday of each month, members of the VR Exploders Group (no, that’s not a typo) explore a different virtual reality platform. Last week, on September 18, 2020, they met up in VRChat to compare notes on the experience.
Since a 2019 survey of users of both Virtual Reality and Virtual Worlds revealed that 64% of respondents want a platform to encourage educational purposes (not predominantly social/gaming), the group keep the education use of the platform foremost in their minds.
Although we will be going back to explore further, one of the explorers had this first impression:
- There are very little interactive tools and the interface was difficult. The social hubs are numbered and, if crowded, you are sent to a different hub;
- My first impression is that VRChat is for social fun times and not very useful for educational purposes. I was on my Oculus Headset, and it worked pretty well. Voice was a problem and we were all really glad to have the Discord channel.
If any of you use VRChat and have had different experiences, we’d love to hear them!
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VR Chat
Well I remember me, Val, and Marie having a little trouble friending and teleporting each other. I don't think voice was a problem at all, in fact I think using Discord is a distraction at first. If someone didn't remember to mute their mic in-world there was an echo because we were all in Discord on voice. But being able to friend and TP someone is essential. I friended Marie right away, but she couldn't TP me. I think it took Sidearm a couple tries to teleport me successfully. So that's the part that I think is kind of a deal killer. Val and I were both on Oculus Rifts and I know Sidearm was on a desktop. I can't remember what Marie said. What device were you on Pat?
Even though I prefer better avatars, I did kind of like my crazed bunny driving a robot. I'll post a link to my picture below. I had my neighbor calling and knocking on my door right at the end and had to jump out before we could all get a better group picture!
https://drive.google.com/file/...
Oculus Rift
I found the experience using the headset better in VRChat than some of the other VR environments I’ve tried. Since I missed the group tour, I went in alone so not sure about voice.
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