• yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca
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        16 hours ago

        You’re joking, but there are lots of people in VRChat that love spending a lot of time looking at their own avatar in front of in-game mirrors.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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          12 hours ago

          Man, I hate looking at myself in mirrors or even hearing myself in recordings. I just don’t understand people who actually like it.

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            2 hours ago

            Theres no other feedback of your own avatar except for viewing it, if i am trying to immerse my self i wanna make sure i dont look jacked up.

            Source: me, i play.

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            3 hours ago

            I mean, in VR you’re really just checking how well you did your avatar. There’s a sense of accomplishment in doing something that looks like you with a very limited set of tools. Haven’t tried it in VR, but I know the exact feeling from The Sims series.

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              2 hours ago

              I understand checking when first creating it, but I find it weird to check it after that. I don’t even make my avatar in games look anything like myself. It’s not that I’m bad looking or anything, I just don’t like looking at myself, and that includes pictures, videos, etc.

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      22 hours ago

      Within the billionaire bubble there was a lot of hype. Outside of that, not so much.

      A new platform to colonize, gathering info on what people were looking at in the virtual world and selling that to advertising made their wallets go very erect.

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        21 hours ago

        I think the biggest part was selling people fake clout for a nearly 100% profit margin. They were going to sell us virtual clothes and status in mass en masse for our very real money. Not that this doesn’t already happen in gaming but it would have been expanded greatly