Watch: Neos VR May Have the Best UI & Feature Set in All Social VR

While VRChat attracts quite a lot of attention thanks to its smart and inventive community, and Rec Room for its high usage numbers and valuation ($1.25 billion, the Wall Street Journal just reported), both of those heavily-funded social VR platforms still seem to be over-shadowed on the feature and UX front by Neos VR, a metaverse crowdfunded on a much smaller budget and developed by Solirax, a tiny studio with less than 10 people on the team. 

"You can literally drag-and-drop almost any kind of files and it will work, like 3D models, images," virtual world explorer Luca tells me, by example. "It's easy to use on desktop mode, and things are just not that hard to learn, it's just the kind of seamlessness I've never seen or experienced on any other VR platform." (That's Luca above, visiting the notably furry-heavy Neos.)

Luca considers Neos' basic usability about on par with VRChat, "but when it comes to more complex stuff, like changing certain settings or figuring out the content tools, NeosVR's UI just feels more intuitive:

"Changing locomotion mode, uploading models and images, setting up media for other people to listen [in Neos] only requires drag-and-drop directly into the window as well, and it would literally spawn where I drop it. The menus are more immersive (almost all of them are in-world objects that other [users] can see, making it easier to collaborate with people) whereas in VRChat there are more of the usual 2D menus that only you can see."

Here's a specific, illustrated example of Neos' powerful UI/feature set:

"Here's a guy showing or teaching some people about certain building tricks or techniques with an axe -- we all could see his building (or editing) menu, it's like that with other menus."

That certainly seems more like the mental image of the metaverse I've had in my mind for at least the last couple decades. (Except maybe not as furry-facing.)

More virtual world explorations from Luca here. More on Neos VR on New World Notes below:

• NeosVR Makes User-To-User File Sharing An Immersive Social VR Experience
• Watch: NEOS Social VR Adds Highly Detailed Mouth Tracking With Reported Latency Under 100 Milliseconds
• Immersive Power Of Mouth Tracking In Social VR