Making Sense of VRChat, the "Metaverse" People Actually Like on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2022–2025.
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People Make Games explores VRChat, the social virtual world that many consider the metaverse people actually like, interviewing users and covering its communities and uncertain future.
Recommended as a mini documentary that explains VRChat's culture and contrasts it with Meta's Horizon Worlds.
“There's a great video[1] on VRChat”
3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
People Make Games did a mini documentary on almost exactly what you're asking: ▶ this video Its three years old so things have slightly matured.
in “VRChat: “There are more Japanese creators than all other countries combined”” · View on HN
There's a great video[1] on VRChat and how its current state seems to encapsulate a lot of the article's ethos but for emerging metaverse tech. I suspect that if Meta is successful with their metaverse efforts it will be a repeat of the Geocities -> Facebook transition. [1] ▶ this video
in “What is the web revival?” · View on HN
VR Chat is Second Life 2.0. Horizon Worlds is shaping up to be VR Chat 0.8. People Make Games interviewed people in VR Chat [0] and gave great examples of how behind (intentionally in some cases, in terms of not having lower halves of avatars) Horizon Worlds appears to be. [0]: ▶ this video
in “Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO” · View on HN