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Making Sense of VRChat, the "Metaverse" People Actually Like

People Make Games · 510.6K views · 2022-05-17 · 37:36

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Overview

People Make Games explores VRChat, the social virtual world that many consider the metaverse people actually like, interviewing users and covering its communities and uncertain future.

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Recommended as a mini documentary that explains VRChat's culture and contrasts it with Meta's Horizon Worlds.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2022–2025

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VR, AR & spatial computingInternet culture & memesGaming culture & analysis
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vrchatmetaversevirtual realityonline communitiessocial platforms

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cagenut · 2025-12 · Recommendation

People Make Games did a mini documentary on almost exactly what you're asking: [VIDEO] Its three years old so things have slightly matured.

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AlexandrB · 2022-05 · Recommendation

There's a great video[1] on VRChat and how its current state seems to encapsulate a lot of the article's ethos but for emerging metaverse tech. I suspect that if Meta is successful with their metaverse efforts it will be a repeat of the Geocities -> Facebook transition. [1] [VIDEO]

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lapetitejort · 2022-06 · Reference

VR Chat is Second Life 2.0. Horizon Worlds is shaping up to be VR Chat 0.8. People Make Games interviewed people in VR Chat [0] and gave great examples of how behind (intentionally in some cases, in terms of not having lower halves of avatars) Horizon Worlds appears to be. [0]: [VIDEO]

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