Watch: Doggface Video Recreated in VRChat to Promote Upcoming Inline Skating World

Just vibing and grinding in Shibuya Terminal ☺️

Having a little too much fun making the #jsrf world in #vrchat 😆

(tribute to Doggface208's amazing vid last year 😁 ) pic.twitter.com/a31pSnLvat

— Lakuza (@LakuzaVR) April 27, 2021

This is a fun VRChat-based tribute to the beloved Doggface Fleetwood Mac skating video. Which would be great in itself, but VRChat being VRChat, it’s also a video promoting an upcoming VRChat world with physics-enabled skating:

“The world itself is based on Jet Set Radio Future, a game released back in 2002,” explains Lakuza, who created and stars in the video, and is a developer of this world:.

”It’s inline skating with a heavy emphasis on grinding across objects… it'll be the first VRChat world to allow for grinding in this manner.” He’s being modest: It’s probably the first VR-enabled skating game in any virtual world that’s not specifically engineered for skating. Anyway, follow him on Twitter for launch updates.

The skating was developed by @squiddingme, the skating system was created via the Udon Sharp compiler:

“I’m not clever enough to understand how it works,” says Lakuza, “but he's basically created a system of movement options that allows double-jumping, wall-running, grinding as well as being able to control acceleration speed over time.” 

As for bringing the Doggface vibe into VRChat, he’s actually using the platform VR mouth tracking technology:

“For the drink I just modelled a bottle and stuck it to my avatar’s hand. As for the lip sync, I had the mic muted for the first half and as soon as the lip sync part began I toggled my mic on so that the lip sync would happen automatically to the song playing out loud from PC speakers.”

Lakuza, as regular readers might remember, also created the bullet time adventure game and the team-based survival horror game in VRChat which is now becoming a standalone game by his fellow community developers. All of which makes me wonder why VRChat seems to have the best and most ambitious creator ecosystem among all virtual worlds… but that’s a topic for another post.