You'll be in my thoughts...

Europe!

What's your region?

Still hoping for a earlier than expected Steam Controller and Steam Machine here.

Don't do that..... don't give me hope ....

That's awesome news though, congrats! Here's hoping my 2027 reservation arrives sooner than expected as well.

Hopefully, full jailbreaks happen eventually. These would be massively more useful (and private) with SteamOS on them.

As someone who spends a lot of time on VRChat, the important context this artical leaves out is the fact that while 95% of survey respondants said they'd like some kind of AI Labeling, there wasn't really any concensus for what that labeling should include or what it should look like. Should a VRChat world be labeled as an AI world if it just has some instructional text that was AI translated from Japanese to English? If AI textures were used? What if textures were AI upscaled, but not completely AI generated?

VRChat's response to the situation felt actually like a very reasonably nuanced take and I'd encourage people to read it straight from the source rather than just how some news aticle interprets it.

The original post from VRChat can be found at: https://ask.vrchat.com/t/where-were-landing-on-ai-in-vrchat/49178

I cannot imagine how big of a issue it would be for me to bake a giant slice of bread larger then my house so I can lay down on it outside.

I would become that lady with 500 raccoons in the back of her yard, and with hungry hoards of mice that are so dense they become a fluid.

The whole reason I thought the experience seemed fun and novel because realistically its one of the only ways to semi experience that.

I mean, pretty much ever since steam opened the gates for NSFW games they’ve dominated new releases.

You don't need vr for that

It's basically the same as Second Life or Roblox. Tons of rooms, all a bit different. Some are full on games, some are just places to meet and talk to people. NSFW content in public rooms is against the rules, but that doesn't mean people don't break it; once saw a dude running around with a Goatse PNG as their avatar. Never seen anyone actually doing ERP or anything beyond obvious trolls like the goatse dude. I'm sure there is a lotta people who do, but they at least keep it in private rooms.

They just never really showed up on my steam page until more recently. So it feels like they're really becoming a thing now I'm guessing.

I'd see them before ai occasionally but they where just candy crush clones and you unlock anime boobs. Now i think theyre making actual games. Like months ago steam recommended me porno store manager or something like that because I was playing grocery store simulator.

You must not be paying much attention to the NSFW game market.

There was a lot on steam even before AI.

I can only speak from a outside perspective, and I never stepped a foot inside. I'll admit it looks fun in some regards. The only thing I can remember off the top of my head seeing that I would really want to so is the giant slice of bread on the ground you can sit on.

Something about that really clicked with my brain and I wanted to know what's that like ever sense.

Most of the people I know IRL who play and create content for VRChat a lot, are actually asexual.

I view vr chat as a nsfw game.

I toggle on nsfw games on steam not because I play them, but because I don't like people hiding options from me. I never seen a nsfw game show up until recently after ai has came out, all of them are ai from what I can tell, and the users there seem to love it. They all get positive reviews but if there's a ai generates thumbnail in any other game they'll often hit mixed review.

So to me this doesn't seem surprising with vr chat. And yes I know vr chat isn't a nsfw game there's probably much more to it. But from what I can tell the only people that play it regularly bang each other in there.

I'm guessing the nsfw genre is kind of like country music, where people who aren't the best can go to become legends within their circle, then later branch out.

Also no judgement, if anything I was playfully picking on you guys that play vr chat and nsfw games.

I'll have to keep that in mind, thanks

You want to slam your controller into your TV? Because that is how you slam your controller into your TV.

Beat Saber does have a "the blocks come from all directions" play mode but it's not very fun. Rather, it adds nothing.

If you want "any and all directions" gameplay, Superhot is amazing.

Just like many games, to get the most fun out of it you need to install the community mods.

The BeatLeader mod/leaderboard and custom sabers increase the fun factor by like 1000. Join a clan and have fun with friends!

I also appreciate silly mods like Nya 😁

It seems awesome for flight/driving sims, though without a motion sim rig those kind of games are unplayable for me due to motion sickness issues. I still have an OG Vive, which I don't use very often, but every time I put it on it feels like entering a magical world. I mean I agree with you that there aren't a lot of games that are suitable for the VR format but at least for me VR in itself never feels old.

If it was any good there wouldn't be a chicken and egg situation. People would flock to vr if it wasn't a steamy pile of dog shit.

Possibly one of the reasons why the Steam Deck rocks? Standardization helps.

Man I wish they could have come out with the new vr device in 2023.

LLMs are already making the porting trivial. Most of the new releases heavily rely on coding agents.

But yeah, that's really where the fun is. So many games are already good and are even more immersive in VR. I'm currently playing Jedi Outcast. And I think for Doom 3 VR is the definitive way to play.

Edit: This enormous list of what has been released in the last 41 days was just posted on the Flat2VR Discord: https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://gist.githubusercontent.com/elliotttate/62874c06da42b6942587038711742bb2/raw/5f4f74bdd401543b0d82488b8a9c82fba9ad07b5/index.html

It even has recent games like Silent Hill Townfall.

I can't even imagine trying to play beat saber on a wii, haha
It'd be a funny port, though. Wonder if someone will try.

You mean stuff you'd get through the oculus PC app?

Both! Quest native versions launch directly on the Frame through Lepton (Android emulation) and PC titles launch through RiftLift (Linux) and Revive (Windows) via streaming.

Like Dreams.

With shadPS4 making such big strides it would not surprise me if it works on PC next year. Would also not surprise me if somebody builds a community server for PC like they did with Super Mario Maker and the Souls titles.