AltspaceVR

This was like the professional version of VRChat. I went to an academic talk, Joha VR, back in 2021 and met Kent Bye. Walked up to the stage and spoke with him for an hour. That was the experience that made me learn how much VR could be and add that was missing from other digital communication. It's a shame it didn't last, the XR space has consolidated so much and a lot of the possibility space is just gone.

Before even trying out Neos VR and getting crypto rugpulled by them eventually, I was a frequent on this during the "Rift DK1" era; Well, technically, the Rift DK2 existed during that time, and there were a lot of chill VR developers (no annoying kids) on during that time. Because I was trying to avoid annoying people on VRChat publics, I later went back to this a few years later (during the Quest era). I randomly joined a Cards Against Humanity lobby and there was some kid with a Quest in the game. During the usual convos, I mentioned that I was playing this with a Oculus Rift. The kid with the Oculus Quest said something along the lines of "you're playing this with a Rift? You should be playing this with a Quest." As soon as I heard that, I left and never came back. Probably for the best or worst, depending on the circumstances. But I guess it turned into some event thingy instead of a social thing like VRChat because NBCUniversal bought it or something in 2017 because it was about to shut down and that's when they added Quest support and then Microsoft bought it and added some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ spyware or whatever and then it pooped the bed in 2023. Anyways, it's dead now. It's a paperw…

It was pretty fun playing cards against humanity in VR back in 2017.

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I remember playing this game on the Gear VR with the S8 bundle back in 2017. I made a lot of great memories with this game and had a great time with people too. Rest in peace AltspaceVR.

Sex was possible