According to steam I'm several thousand hours into my VR usage if I add up a few of my favorite 'games'.
I completely agree with you that it reminds me of the very early internet. Like the late 90s, when bbs's and prodigy and compuserve and aol and "the internet" were all a jumbled mix.
If you haven't yet make sure to check out Rec Room. Its in a very similar space to VRChat and FBHorizon, but their gimmick is they've invested heavily in "maker" tools so that users can build their own "rooms" (levels) including customized 'game' logic. Its really a VR IDE they just don't call it that.
I tried Rec Room and everyone sounded 11 years old. There was one guy standing there talking about killing himself. Was that atypical of what you find on there?
To be fair, I did play basketball and ping pong with a few of them before I left. It felt like I was politely entertaining someone who was depressed and needed a friend.
Not really, I remember usenet and other young technologies being populated by older people.
I literally mean they sounded 11 or younger. Voices not yet having gone through puberty, by a decent margin of years. Several remarked that I was using a voice mod to make my voice deeper. I left feeling uncomfortable.
I completely agree with you that it reminds me of the very early internet. Like the late 90s, when bbs's and prodigy and compuserve and aol and "the internet" were all a jumbled mix.
If you haven't yet make sure to check out Rec Room. Its in a very similar space to VRChat and FBHorizon, but their gimmick is they've invested heavily in "maker" tools so that users can build their own "rooms" (levels) including customized 'game' logic. Its really a VR IDE they just don't call it that.