Also you missed furries from your audience group, there is overlap but it is a pretty distinctive group that is actively drawn towards VR for creative expression.

But it is definitely limited by hardware and while it is constantly growing, its growth is dependent on there being a supply of relatively cheap hardware.

The official instance and full time dev is funded by a cheaper discord nitro like premium sub.

It very recently became public and since that makes people think it is vibe coded I recommend reading the making off blog post https://blog.fluxer.app/

It isn't yet 1:1 with discord, no phone app yet, but it is by far the most discord like discord alternative (closer than Stoat), but open source and selfhostable.

I keep that running on a VPS, but with with proper firewalling you could probably run it on the same machine.

Annoyingly you can't create a person that way yet with immich, but that's where digikam helps.

Also, I would never discuss something I am buying with an LLM, the moment advertising starts being used to influence its output it will be the same as discussing the product with the product page (which of course is only positive) and ignoring negative reviews.

But I suppose AI could in theory reach the point where it understand the story/theme and gameplay of a game while designing a world.

But when anyone can generate a huge open world, who really cares, is the same as it is now, gotta make something that sticks out from the crowd, something notable.

The closest to compute shaders we have are camera loops using render textures and AsyncGPUReadback which has been limited to only handle inputs and outputs in the form of textures.

Also the reason why it is even done in shader is because the scripting language in VRChat is 200X-1000X slower than normal Unity scripting, with no async or way to do threads.

The more technically impressive worlds don't just use the VRChat provided object syncing or interactions, they create their own systems tailored to the world, but Udon, the world scripting language, is sluggishly slow, 200X-1000X slower (according to VRC themselves and I know is true from experience), compared to ordinary scripting inside Unity, which means the only ones able to make their own systems are not only good at coding, they are really good at optimizing, on a generally amateur creation platform like VRC those people are very few.

They are trying to recreate Udon to be more performant, but small company and their first attempt was discarded after the sole employee working on it was let go.

Network delay could be considered another thing holding back mini game creation, but even if the network stack was better, you have people all over the world, latency will always be an issue.

Of course it is bad for the international community that all nation's people aren't connected but since the US really wants to become isolationist may as well look on the bright side.

And personally I don't consider the world exluding the US as an echo chamber, even just the EU is far from an echo chamber, it is a continent of many unique countries, US concerns are heard over here in the EU a lot even if a whole lot of it doesn't matter over here and just causes polarization.

But for situations where a company simply won't use Anubis because of its branding then they do sell a unbranded version.

https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper

VR and AR headsets on the other hand have several good usecases, they just aren't for everyone.

Social VR, more fun exercise and the media watching experience is quite nice, especially on planes and in general nice on the Apple Vision Pro.

But you can proxy traffic using a VPS really easily, which is basically the reverse of exit nodes.

I think that sounds like a good source.

And while that mask fell off, a similarly hard to argue against reason that they bring up is the russian state, which no one here likes, so it isn't like they actually pulled off the mask, just swapped it for something almost equal, assuming they stick to that reason.