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little vid i made last year to show non-VR folk what FBT was

three Vive 3.0 trackers with a Quest 2.

it's really good and makes VRChat so much better. it's kind of wild spending so much on basically a single, ostensibly free game but VRChat's kind of magical like that. maybe the only games-related thing in recent years that feels truly futuristic to me. it's not just a bi-decade console refresh with 10% more vivid graphics, this is a New Fuckin' Thing (NFT lol) and creatives and queers (i repeat myself) are making it their canvas.

this level of tracking (six points) instantly made me want more accuracy (knees! elbows!) but i can't justify the cost so far. i was hoping full body tracking would be more accessible by 2023 but covid supply chain disruption, bugginess, and other issues threw a wrench in a bunch of the emerging competition.

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PhormTheGenie
@PhormTheGenie

Full Body Tracking with VRChat is a revelation, I swear. I tried it once, and I couldn't ever go back. In fact, I needed more! It just feels so fantastic, and also, as you said, it's possible to find an environment of creatives (and queers).

I really wanted to learn how to belly dance in VR, seeing the way some folks can move. So I bought more trackers.

Then they dropped the EAC update and I got skeeved out (but I think we discussed that prior).

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@wave

What have you ended up doing? It almost sounds like you stepped away from VRC.

I was real annoyed at the modpocalypse. And it wasn't great how VRC handled the sudden anti-cheat. However I was genuinely surprised how quickly it then implemented many of the most important mod features into the main client. Made me wonder why they couldn't have just added such QoL and even accessibility features years ago?

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I confess that's exactly what I did. I haven't been on VRC since the ambush-launch of the EAC update.

It's mostly my being stubborn and unreasonable, but I just don't trust EAC in any way, shape or size. I'm super glad that all the QoL and accessibility features got implemented natively, but needing to have something with hooks as deep as EAC just made my skin crawl. And on another level, the suddenness of the move, as well as the insistence it was for player safety (spoiler: It wasn't - crashers and rippers are still prevalent, because they had nothing to do with modded clients and everything to do with malformed user data) made me feel like something else is going on at VRChat headquarters. And it smells bad.

That being said, I'm the one who made that decision, and my VR equipment has gone unused since. So maybe all I did was play myself.

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I respect your acting by your principles.

I will say the expression "don't let perfect become the enemy of good" comes to mind, given that there simply is no other platform right now offering what VRChat offers (and I include the large, vibrant userbase when I say that).

If the choice is stay away due to anger over corporate decisions or hold that feeling but still let myself enjoy the good parts, I choose the latter, in part because there are no great alternative offerings and I don't want to miss this (as always, ephemeral) moment.

Again though, totally respect your having that stance.

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It's less principals and more paranoia, I confess. I fear EAC just exposes a larger attack surface on my system than I'm comfortable with - which I've heard deemed overreaction. I can't deny that. That being said, I wasn't exactly fitting in around VRC as it was.

Regardless, you're right about "don't let perfect be the enemy of good". VRC is the only thing that ever let me get that close to experiencing a "right" body, and tracking made that amazing. The community and the creativity on display there is second to none.

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if you decide to return, lmk and we can say hi! if nothing else we can diss on shogo / love on TLU

i also don't really have much going on in there so far. i hang with a coworker sometimes but they are even more socially anxious about speaking to randos than me, lol.

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