[satokema]

VRChat is still the gold standard of VR experiences.

VR is still a bit niche and only VRC actually offers an easy road to creating experiences - it's way easier to get novelty junkies on VRC to checkout a world than to try to sell or market a standalone experience. Probably easiest to just run a patreon at these levels than actually sell games, too.

[GuB-42]

To be honest, I'd say Beat Saber is the gold standard.

Not the immersive metaworld thing that is so popular in fiction, but a real fun game that is not just about being VR.

VRChat has, I think, a more limited demographic than Beat Saber, and it is probably not where the future of VR is. I mean, it is cool, and I think it is here to stay (or if it doesn't, it will be replaced by something similar), but like Second Life today, I don't think it has much room for growth.

[HeWhoLurksLate]

VRChat probably has similar problems to Chatroulette / Omegle have in terms of widespread adoption

[accrual]

I agree. I dove into the deep end with VRC in 2020 during lockdowns. I felt like I lived and died in an entirely different life. The splash still ripples through my life today.

[kilroy123]

I tried it on the Oculus and found it to be a horrible experience with tons of young children. I guess the Oculus version is limited?

[haburka]

Yes it is - the majority of the content is not accessible with quest and also it only allows you in quest worlds, which are full of children. You need to plug in your quest to a computer in order to experience the decent part

[dotnet00]

It is somewhat of a common thing in VRC communities that simply blocking Quest users cuts out the vast majority of annoying kids running around.

[two_handfuls]

VRChat added DRM, which means I won't play it. Granted, I am probably part of a minority here.

[RajT88]

VRChat is the closest you can get to "Ready Player One"

[Der_Einzige]

The gold standard is Blade and Sorcery and it's not even close. If you don't like the base game, try one of the thousands of mods. I turned mine into the single most "realistic" Star Wars game I could ever play.