my litmus test for "is your VR metaverse app even remotely as good as vrchat" is "are furries holding actual exercise classes in it" pic.twitter.com/Pd2mFPbr0k
— Aura🥨🥨🥨 (@MOOMANiBE) October 11, 2022
Update, 10/19: VR Fitness & Biking founder Aigey just sent me background on the founding of his workout group in VRChat during the pandemic peak and continues thriving by giving people an alternate to RL gyms:
[W]e started right as isolation started due to COVID-19 specifically, our group was founded initially because I used to go to the local gym but couldn't anymore but still wanted a gym-like experience but no one was allowed to go to the gym due to social distancing restrictions at the time here in Kentucky.
Our official start up... began officially in October of 2020 and have been running strong ever since. First because no one had access to gyms but then people found the idea to be fantastic due to the accessibility and freedom to 'be as you want to be' in a workout class from the safety of your own home as well as freedom from judgement that comes with going to an actual gym location, which has helped increase the popularity without us really advertising our groups existence. All of our growth so far has come without us advertising the group at all.
Original post below:
Apropos of nothing (or is it everything?), here's dozens of VRChat furries exercising together in real time while wearing full body VR rigs so that all their limbs move. Yes, including their legs.
"In this room specifically for our 'super Saturday sessions' we average about 30 users across the globe," the host of VR Fitness & Biking, explains to me.
"[We're] working in a world built within the VRChat platform utilizing various hip, hand, and leg tracking so that movements can be seen!"
You can watch the whole session on the community's Twitch, and the collective huffing and puffing you hear makes it pretty clear they're actually working out in real life as well. And far as I can tell, VRChat the company had nothing to do with this, but is yet another organic community to emerge in the virtual world [see update above - 10/19]. I wonder if it has anything to do with Quest 2 owners preferring VRChat over paid apps, as John Carmack mentioned recently.
Hat tip: Aura, who sagely says: "My litmus test for 'Is your VR metaverse app even remotely as good as VRChat?' is 'Are furries holding actual exercise classes in it'?" Yes.
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