u/RestlessDreamer32

I adore my Quest 3 and use it daily, but my initial skepticism of Meta's new VR Glasses has been pretty washed away. I have an excellent carrying case for my Quest 3 with enough room for the fancy strap, but it's still not super portable for places I'd like to bring it. The much lower FOV is what had me worried, but after watching videos from multiple people who have gotten to try the glasses, the general consensus seems to be that it's "just enough" to be playable for VR games on. That got me thinking.

The productivity stuff with improved hand tracking seems super cool and it would be really easy to just wear these around my house watching things. After using Muse a bit so far, having that as an integrated assistant has me pretty excited. The virtual keyboard on flat surfaces is apparently quite accurate from those who got to test it so far. I wasn't thrilled about the idea of the processing being offloaded onto a puck, or not having a strap behind the head, but people seem to be saying it feels more stable than it looks.

I'm not sure if looking forward to this new device is unpopular or not, but I'm quite pumped for it. I'll likely switch back and forth between my Quest 3 and these depending on the game. Anyone else looking forward to it?

I only really got into VRC after getting a VR headset and even then, only dipped my feet in. Would usually just end up abandoning instances when screechers joined. After a few months I decided to finally cave and get VRC+ to age verify and things got instantly better. There are still some bad eggs here and there, but it's a far cry from 10 year old boys shouting racial slurs every other second.

When one is young, you think it would be easier to make friends IRL the older you get, but it's actually much harder. In life, the only places I can really see people are at work, where it's also hard to make actual friends that you get to see outside of work. Since I moved, all of my usual IRL friends are now cities away. Most clubs you can join tend to already have their own internal cliques, so while you may be hanging out with people with similar hobbies, you're often times just on the outside. It's lonelier than I thought it would be.

VRC has been a really good way to fill the gap. It's like virtual bar hopping and I've even met a number of really cool people who join me and vice versa whenever I log on. We even play some games outside of VRC now. Maybe many people who play this game are also lonely and are just more open to new company. Whether or not this is truly healthy, I don't really care at this point. The game has had an overall good impact on my mental health.

How about you guys? What's your overall experience been so far? Would you say the game has personally done good for you? Or the opposite?

I started playing VRC a few years ago on standalone VR and quickly discovered the gorgeous world of PCVR, but one thing that really hampered my enjoyment for a lot of servers were the screechers. I'm good with kids IRL but dealing with them online is horrendous. It easily kills my enjoyment of otherwise fun multiplayer games that have mic support. Devil's Roulette is an example of a game that's super fun, but because the majority of the player base are screeching edgelord children shouting the N-bomb all the time (yes, it gets old), I've stopped playing it entirely despite enjoying the game.

When I noticed VRC had the option to age verify, I decided to give it a go and that was it. That was the magic key to enjoying this game. Yes, I get the privacy concerns regarding the whole thing, but at this point I didn't care. My smart phone already knows more about me than even I do anyways. Sure, there are absolutely still adult edgelords and trolls, but they're infinitely more tolerable than the kids on this game.

I don't have to worry about anyone being minors either and can feel comfortable speaking as an adult and talking about topics that wouldn't be appropriate to anyone underage. The issue I'm facing now is none of my friends are age verified and don't want to be, so whenever we play together I have to join them in normal open servers. My enjoyment drops immensely with the types of people I encounter.

Anyone else feel this way?

While most Reddit subs are echo chambers, this one is absolutely delusional. If I said this in most other places online I'd be agreed with, but here people have this permanent victim complex and act like their human rights are being violated when people criticize the use of Meta glasses.

When people feel uncomfortable about them, there's no shortage of comments like:

"That's a YOU problem!"
"There are security cameras everywhere! It's the same thing!"
"People have phones out everywhere and can be recording you! It's the same!"

And tons of other tired out excuses. Meta already doesn't have a great track record with users privacy, and there are several places don't like people recording. Yes, there's a "flashing light" to let people know, but there's no shortage of posts on this sub asking how to disable or cover it and have it still record. There's an endless amount of "POV rizz" content online from countless of creators, which gets even worse when many of the girls being hit on look like or are actual minors. These women are having videos of them being flirted with posted all over the internet without their permission for gooners. Yet people here will just say crap like "IT'S A PUBLIC PLACE!! WE HAVE A RIGHT TO FILM!! YOU'RE ALREADY BEING RECORDED BY SECURITY CAMERAS!! IT'S THE SAME!!". The difference is malls and stores aren't going to go on and upload security camera footage of strangers for funsies... But creeps with these glasses will.

Being an older guy with these is even riskier. All it takes is an accusation of recording someone's kid in a restroom and you're done for, even if you aren't. And no, it's not "the same" as having your phone out. It would be akin to someone having their phone out and holding the camera up in peoples directions, which people would absolutely take issue with.

Yet when people here go to places where they're told to take off their Meta glasses, they have full blown meltdowns in the comment sections where they're like "THEY'RE MUH PRESCRIPTIONS!! THEY'RE A MEDICAL DEVICE!!". People here act like they're the next Rosa Parks when they refuse to take their Meta glasses off. It's comical, but a common attitude here.

And guess what? I actually have a pair, but after seeing strange uncomfortable looks from people in public and being asked multiple times if I was recording people, I stopped and picked up a regular pair of Raybans. I don't use the camera, nor do I like it being there. I got the glasses solely for the music, which sounds great on them, as do phone calls, but home is the only place I use them anymore. The technology is impressive and I love using mine, but I can't deny the stigma around them, and I'm not insensitive enough to strangers to delude myself into thinking otherwise. If they released ones without a camera I'd grab them in a heartbeat.

After being on this sub for a while though, I can 100% understand why they make people uncomfortable.

I have a couple paid avatars already, and the second one straight up admitted it wasn't very well optimized. Looks adorable in game, but last thing I'd wanna do is crash out someone else's game or just have the avi blocked by people.

How does everyone here feel about it? If you really liked an avatar, would you bother to optimize it yourself?

I know I'm gonna sound super nooby for saying this, but I only JUST discovered Gumroad and the ability to purchase and upload avatars yourself into the game. Needless to say, my wishlist is massive and my wallet is hurting. I've only purchased one so far, but it feels good having such a unique avatar that feels like me.

Looking at a ton of these popular avatars, especially ones by FoxiPaws, I'm only now just realizing I've seen tons of these avatars before. But I came to the realization someone could just upload an avatar as public and allow cloning. When I've told people I've paid for avatars, they act like it's a wild concept and a waste, but are using an avatar that isn't free. Are most users really just using stolen avatars?

If a creator were to find out about this, what recourse is there if any?

My specs are as follows. Playing on a Quest 3 with Virtual Desktop.

Motherboard: ASRock B460M Pro4
CPU: Intel i7-10700F 2.90GHz
GPU: RTX 4060 8GB
RAM: 32GB DDR4-3200 (1600 MHz)
Internet speed: 94 Mbps upload, 94 Mbps download (using wired connection)

According to Google, ChatGPT, etc, my PC is supposedly powerful enough to run VRC well, and it use to a few months ago, but lately in the last few weeks my entire PC will just outright crash and require a hard restart if I as much as try to join a lobby with more than 20 users. Turning the graphics to lowest does nothing to improve the situation. Blocking all poor and below avatars fixes the issue for the most part, but if I'm going to have to look at ugly blocky avatars anyway, I may as well just play the native Quest version. My issue is a few months ago I didn't have this issue at all.

Has the game been updated to become more demanding or something? My Virtual Desktop settings are great for what I do any work perfectly in every other game I play via PCVR. Arizona Sunshine Remaster, Alien Rogue Incursion, Half Life Alyx, etc all run without issue. VRC is the ONLY game that does it.

All other remotely demanding tasks on my PC are killed and not using memory, and my settings are apparently already in the place troubleshooting online recommends I be at. I'm at my wits end because VRC was one of my only social outlets outside of my work life and I can't even enjoy it now.

My PC is around around 6 years old. Is it really time to upgrade already?

You know the Reddit power-user stereotype. The one who comments "UMMMM SOURCE???" or some shit because they disagree with what's being said or claimed.

The issue is they're not asking because they think there's a possibility that they're wrong in not believing it, but because they plan to attack any source that's given to them. If you give them anything other than some academic peer-reviewed study/journal, etc, they'll be quick to "debunk" what you say. Even if they are given an academic peer-reviewed study, it still won't be good enough for them. They'll instead seek to discredit the person who wrote the source, call it "misinterpreted data" or "inadequate", or just choose to take the source out of context as a "gotcha". Any source that argues against their beliefs are automatically wrong, and any source that validates their claims are correct.

They're not actually interested in a debate or a genuine discussion. They just want to "defeat" the person who said the thing they didn't like. Even when it comes to the subject of opinions, rather than facts.

**Lmao Redditors are already not beating the allegations. Called it.**

One common misconception about golden's is that they're happy all the time. Truth is most get sad, depressed, or absolutely devastated on the regular from the most mundane or tiny things. That's not even counting getting scared.

Recently mine got very upset that she lost her ice cube under the couch, even though I gave her another one immediately.

What's had your golden's so sad lately?