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Kingspray is in dire need of a patch. Even in the Steam beta it's got a few bugs, its tutorial doesn't work properly, its menu is confusing, and I still can't tell you how grab movement works. Despite these faults, it's the best graffiti simulator in the VR format to this day, and capable of letting you produce truly incredible works of art.

To get into this, you need to want to experience a few limitations inherent to spraypaint as a medium. Your canvas is typically an uneven surface (the rooftop level is my default). Spraypaint drips when sprayed too harshly, and the game's inclusion of trigger pressure and distance from the surface as drawing factors can make it difficult to make decent strokes (but those things can, of course, be used in other ways). You get access to a full palette of colors, alongside a variety of spray tips you can use to coat surfaces in different patterns and levels of intensity. The result is an art program that encourages you to stand, crouch, reach, and compensate for the human form's physical limitations (optionally using ladders and platforms) to make the images you want. Viewing the transparent full-resolution PNG it creates is anticlimactic compared to a screenshot or a video, because the art is connected to its physical size in front of you, which gives you an idea of the effort required to produce it.

I have an occasional fantasy of creating a bunch of art in Kingspray and importing it into the Steam reissue of Jet Set Radio; it'd take a lot of effort, but I appreciate that it seems to be possible either way.

I've heard three apps are good: VRChat, ChilloutVR, and Neos. I've only used VRChat, and despite its problems (Easy Anti-Cheat and bad CPU utilization), even when it's bad it's good; I've been dealing with video card troubles over the past two weeks and I've still been happy to show up for this.

With custom avatars you have total control over your appearance (proportional to how much effort you want to put in); you can converse locally and face-to-face with friends without pandemic risk/from the comfort of your home, and in a queer furry context, it approximates the fantasy of getting to visit a world filled with animal people and make friends by having natural conversations with them. There are some people I only know as their fursona, and they only know me as the 5000-triangle tortoise with fursuit eyes doing a Chowder Man dance in the corner -- but that's also the identity I fought to put together for myself, so it's basically ideal.

The worlds are remarkable as well, many of them are places where people express their personal vision of reality as a place to hang out in (CooperTom's worlds are a pretty good starting point for this), others are art installations or places where Unity-engine features are used to demonstrate awe-inspiring effects. I've visited worlds from works of fiction just to stand inside them and get a sense of their scale; I've seen the Argentum trade guild from Xenoblade 2 in person, as well as the Phantasy Star Online lobby and a 3D recreation of Snowdin Town; they just let you do that here, and it rules!

A disclaimer: I do not visit public worlds, I only create private instances of worlds I want to visit and either explore on my own, invite people I know, or go to meetups organized by others. So for the social aspects I think you'd need existing VR friends or an 'in' to a community, lest you otherwise end up in a world filled with edgelords and spoiled children. Bear that in mind and you'll probably have a good time.