VRChat World Puts You in a World Within a World Within a World... But We're Not Sure How

Quite the mind-bending VRChat world....
World - Thad Recursive Room, by Thad Gyther pic.twitter.com/WsRNo4iHSt

— Rcbif (@rcbif) January 19, 2023

The trouble with writing a book about the Metaverse is you end up too busy to write about what's currently happening across the best metaverse platforms.

Which takes me to Thad Gyther's Recursive Room in VRChat, which puts you in a world within a world within a world. Watch the video above to see what I mean.

"It's really well made," my best VRChat source affirms. As for how it's made, we can only speculate at the moment:

 

"I know it's likely using a similar concept to the people that make non-Euclidian portals in their worlds, it's very similar concepts, just in this case it's a portal that also scales," they speculate.

"Oh kinda like a VRChat mirror effect but where he scales the mirror large or small?"

"Kind of. A portal is a mirror that doesn't flip - and has an offset. and possibly a rotation... and in this case, a scale. But there's lots of other considerations to make sure everything layers in the way you'd expect. I wish I knew how this stuff is done, I want in on the fun."

Me too! I've reached out to Thad but have not yet heard back. But in any case, you really don't need (or want?) to know how it works to enjoy it yourself -- here's its listing on VRChat.

And yes, I devote over a whole chapter to VRChat in Making a Metaverse That Matters, with deep interviews with the founders.

Comments

[lovelymammoth]

this is actually trully amazing, because it gives a weird sensation of being a subordinate and a god at once. It reminds me Fisherman's Tale experience where it has a similar mechanic https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/2299967930057156/