ARPost

JULY 16, 2020

The remote event is being organized in partnership with VRChat. Blogs and industry publications by the organization are free to access to anyone. VRChat , the group bringing the VR Awards online, is a free-to-play virtual world currently in early access on Steam , Oculus , and VIVEPORT. About the VR Awards.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It’s an impressive ‘no-install-required’ WebXR social app that never gained the sort of traction that better-backed apps garnered over the years, such as Rec Room, VRChat, or Meta’s Horizon Worlds. This includes shutdown of Hubs ‘ demo server, managed subscription, and community resources.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2020

It’s my blog’s birthday! Managing a blog is harder than you may think and it requires a lot of time and effort. A special thank you to my Patrons that donate every month some money to me to keep this blog alive (and you can support me too by going to this page ).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Since when I started this blog, I have had the tradition of wishing people the best for the Winter Holidays and for the new year, but this time it is a very difficult task because of the damn 2020. Anyway, let me try to do it the same. You are awesome and very important to me.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 25, 2017

VRChat will be releasing on Steam in Early Access on February 1st 2017. The VRChat team, which raised $1.2 VRChat also aims to offer deeper user customization with integration with Unity. A scroll through the company’s Medium blog reveals yet more ambitions, like bringing sculptures from Oculus Medium into the experience.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2022

Read Player Me allows anyone to create and customize their own avatar, which can then be imported into social VR platforms such as VRChat , Spatial , LIV , MeetinVR , and more. Image courtesy Wolf3D.

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ARPost

JANUARY 31, 2023

The Sun Goin’ Down on AltspaceVR On January 20, a blog post titled “ AltspaceVR to Sunset the Platform on March 10, 2023 ” appeared at the top of the company’s homepage. For example, the live VR comedy show Failed to Rende r began in AltspaceVR but also has a home in Horizon Worlds and VRChat. An email was also sent to users.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 3, 2023

More info (Haptic SDK) More info (Quest Pro local dimming) VRChat goes mobile One of the most popular social VR worlds, VRChat, has just announced a very important update. This can be huge for VRChat, which can so expand a lot its user base. As it is a tradition of my blog, I made a post in which I said I’m actually an AI.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In a blog post commemorating the one year anniversary of PSVR 2 , Sony highlighted upcoming content soon to launch on the headset. PSVR 2 is also missing lots of ‘non-game’ VR content—like art tools, immersive videos, and ‘edutainment’ content—as well as key social VR platforms like VRChat and Rec Room.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2021

In VRChat there were two big events of this kind: one was the official New Year’s Eve party : a 24-hours-long marathon featuring 24 electronic DJs; and the other one was the concert of Jean-Michel Jarre inside Notre-Dame that we have organized. VRChat in a nutshell. Funny link. Funny link. This Quest 2 box is sus. Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2022

VRChat causes angry reactions in its community. VRChat is one of the most popular social VR worlds, and one of its strong points is the huge community , which every day creates not only new worlds, but also new avatars, events, creation tools, and mods. In the end, VRChat decided to find a compromise to try to make everyone happy.

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Ryan Schultz

JANUARY 19, 2023

Photo by Jordan Ladikos on Unsplash When I started this blog in July of 2017, I had never intended to become a Second Life blogger. The original purpose of my blog was to write about Linden Lab’s foray into social VR, Sansar. My list of metaverse platforms remains one of the most popular pages on the RyanSchultz.com blog.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2023

More info (Official website) More info (My interview with the founder of XRSI) News worth a mention (Image by VRChat) VRChat paid subscriptions are now officially available VRChat paid subscriptions are now out of beta and are officially available in the application. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Unlike prominent VR platforms such as VRChat and Altspace VR which allow for dozens of users in one space, vTime XR specializes in high-quality conversations between groups of two to four.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Virtual worlds like Fortnite, Roblox, or also RecRoom, and VRChat are becoming every day more successful. Let's organize an online wake so that we 600,000,000 monthly active users in Fortnite, Minecraft, Roblox, PUBG Mobile, Sandbox, and VRChat can mourn its passing together in real-time 3D. The metaverse is dead!

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Ryan Schultz

JULY 29, 2022

Here’s an overview of Joe’s film, taken from his IndieGogo page : We Met in Virtual Reality is an enchanting portrait of social Virtual Reality (VR) app VRChat, composed of intimate and hilarious moments inside global VR communities. Both couples first met each other within VRChat.

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Ryan Schultz

APRIL 7, 2023

People whose introduction to the concept of the metaverse started with VRChat, Horizon Worlds, and other social VR platforms may question why I choose to write so often and so fondly about Second Life, a virtual world which was launched in 2003, well before the advent of consumer-grade virtual reality headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This system could so be employed to have full body tracking inside experiences like VRChat. The good thing about such a system is that it is affordable and very comfortable: you just wear a few bracelets and you can have full-body VR. More info (Mocopi tracking system) More info (Mocopi tested with VRChat) More info (Mocopi and HIKKY).

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Ryan Schultz

JULY 26, 2022

Yesterday, VRChat posted the following blogpost to their official blog, titled The VRChat Security Update : “Modified clients” are a large problem for VRChat in a variety of ways. In order to prevent that, we’ve implemented Easy Anti Cheat (EAC) into VRChat. EAC is the industry-leading anti-cheat service.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

More info Some news on full body tracking Full body tracking is gaining always more attention, especially from the VRChat community. Its latest innovation is letting you use the full body tracking offered by a phone inside SteamVR so that you can use it for instance inside VRChat. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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Ryan Schultz

MARCH 2, 2024

It is one of a huge backlog (over thirty) of half-finished blog posts, which I hope to complete and publish soon. Also, with this blogpost, I have created a new blog post category called Review , which I will now be using to mark any hardware and software reviews I write from now on, here on the RyanSchultz.com blog.

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Voices of VR

JUNE 21, 2023

Au started as an embedded journalist employed by Second Life to cover the evolving trends of digital culture within their virtual world, and he's continued to be an intrepid reporter of this space on his New World Notes blog tracking the evolution of various different Metaverse platforms. More on those critiques here in a bit.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 6, 2020

Before starting reading this summary, don’t forget to read my mega-post with the behind-the-curtains of the concert we organized on VRChat for Jean-Michel Jarre. More info (Facebook AI supersampling algorithm) More info (Official announcement on Facebook Blog). You can read a detailed deep dive into his experiments on his blog.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Travel blogs are played out. But what about a travel blog by someone touring the virtual world? Dime a dozen these days. Taking photos… Continue reading on AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine ».

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

With a long post on Magic Leap’s blog, in the end Rony Abovitz has admitted that the company is not going that well, and has announced a new course, that should eventually lead to Magic Leap 2. The blog post is full of the usual fluff: it could have been written in 10 lines instead of a big wall of text. Top news of the week.

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Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Here’s a sample of some of their comments: The devs at VRChat say, on Reddit, that nothing will change. Yeah, I mean, this is exactly why you shouldn’t rely too heavily on a third-party like this, because they can pull the rug out from underneath you…I am quite sure that VRChat is going to be okay.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

It seems that a big corporation like Meta didn’t forgive him for the open criticism he has expressed on stage in the last few years… More info The Android version of VRChat has been downloaded by 10K people According to the Play Store data, the beta of VRChat for mobile Android devices has been downloaded by more than 10K people in the first week.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2021

My main responsibility there is Public Relations , so I often write blog posts and respond to media requests for interviews. What’s the difference between it and similar experiences like VRChat? VRChat is a social VR for users based on User Generated Content. I am Tomoko and I work at ambr, Inc.,

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2023

More info (Twitter post that describes the excitement around this project) More info (Official launch blog post) Other relevant news (Image by Google) Chrome ships WebGPU Chrome , the most popular browser around, has just implemented WebGPU. This research, taken further, could bring many interesting innovations in the AR field.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2022

Nowadays in social VR worlds like VRChat you can have a maximum of 50–100 people together in the same room. Official Blog Post) More info (First Hand?—?Road Like last week, also this week in this final paragraph I won’t ask you to donate for my blog, but to the poor people that are facing the consequences of the war.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2024

remove VR from VRChat), but I don’t think Apple would make such a stupid move. If VRChat has to change its name just on the Apple Store, its fans wouldn’t find it, so it would make no sense as a requirement. Some people wondered if this would also mean requiring companies to remove VR from the names of their products (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2022

But it is also true that with Roblox coming to Quest, Horizon Worlds would have another fierce competitor stealing its users , after VRChat and Rec Room. NVIDIA has presented on its blog another use case of enterprise collaboration in VR that uses 5G and cloud rendering. VRChat in a nutshell Funny link. Other news. Learn more.

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Ryan Schultz

APRIL 30, 2022

The Globe and Mail had given Joe a Meta Quest 2 wireless VR headset, so a couple of weeks later, I gave him a guided tour of two popular social VR platforms, VRChat and AltspaceVR. I kinda suck at this whole reality business,” he wrote on his blog. My obscure, niche hobby has suddenly gone mainstream,” he told me.

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VRScout

JANUARY 2, 2021

This year, I set out to discover a digital reincarnation of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in VRChat , the venue for Welcome to the Other Side, a virtual concert by electronic music legend Jean-Michel Jarre. . Jumping into VRChat with my Oculus Quest 2, I used the social VR platforms search function to locate Welcome to the Other Side.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2021

More info (SideQuest VR download page) More info (Launch blog post). More info (Announcement blog post) More info (Boz announcing the news on Twitter) More info (My long editorial on Facebook and its advertisement efforts). Never trust a girly avatar on VRChat Funny link. Absolutely not. Top news of the week. Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

Spatial or VRChat), while others will simply get lost. Altspace was pretty unique because it offered amazing tools to create groups and communities, so people being part of it had many connections inside the platform. Now all these groups of people do not have a house anymore: some of them will migrate to other social VR platforms (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

More info (PSVR 2 unveiled) More info (Official blog post on PSVR 2 headset). The first one is from BBC, which made an experiment impersonating a small child and going through VRChat and being sexually harassed by adults. More info (Harassment problems in VRChat) More info (Disgusting world in Roblox). Other relevant news.

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