To get started as a new player, I reccomend joining their Discord! There're lots of mentors online to help onboard :) discord.com/invite/resonite I hope you enjoyed this video!
I have to be brutally honest about Resonite's community dynamics. Despite investing over 1K hours into NEOS, my efforts as a human player felt utterly invalidated. It's disheartening to witness such a lack of inclusivity in what should be a welcoming metaverse community. Even after creating numerous public worlds and assisting countless furry and human players in adapting to the platform, the hostility towards human characters persisted relentlessly. What's more disheartening is the fact that when I reached out to community moderators for support, my concerns were consistently disregarded. This dismissive attitude only serves to perpetuate the toxic environment. It's truly disappointing to see Resonite mirror the same issues as NEOS, perpetuating exclusion and prejudice rather than fostering a sense of unity and acceptance
@@lordharryx I'm sorry you've had that experience, but the people you've had the experience with don't represent the entire community. Resonite is a place for everyone, and almost noone cares what avatar you're wearing. It kind of disheartens me to see when someone had bad experiences, overall Resonite's community is the most open and welcoming I've ever seen, and I'm happy and proud to be a part of it.
I dragged my feet on every single VR program and game till the community was basically dead I'm not going to make the same mistake here. This looks really rad
Yeah i feel the same way about neosvr, its the most advanced out there besides Resonite, vrchat had gotten boring, props dont do much, doesnt feel super realistic, its the same games and same objects in different retextures in every world, nothing new, no props we can make, still cant have an avatar that isn't humanized, because where we see will be above the actual avatar, and the community and updates and somewhat behind, or just bad right now. It depresses me how simple it seems to make an amazing immersive, fantasy, somewhat realistic social vr game like neosvr, make avatars or parts of the world react to yours, props, inventory, true immersion, true home worlds, graphics like helios, etc, yet no one has taken that opportunity. Maybe its just not the best time right now, we need more people to actually want something other than vrchat, a reason for everyone to want to move over to a new platform, but it's a gold mine opportunity, for us and for the people who create it, and don't sell out to NFT/Crypto, Currently, neosvr and resonite sound promising, and resonite even more since with neosvr it could suddenly disappear, I'm definitely gonna check them out. (I'd love the ability in vrchat to have your home world never reset anything you change, like a real house you set up, unless you click a button to reset it all back the way it was.)
That's what the old internet used to be, just people making websites and forums. That is until social media. I'm just happy that something remotely similar yet so different is being brought to the table
This is the future of VR I've dreamed of. To all the creative people making amazing things, thank you so much! Triple A games can't hope to compete with you guys!
@@ClokworkGremlin It's so cool to see people in the comments here that remember me! I'm working on a showcase video actually that I hope to have out by the end of next week, it's been nearly three years of development on this thing.
7:08 physically organizing new records to keep the sense of presence is such a fun idea and the aesthetic of the place is nice, it seems like a great way to discover new music (I know it's literally just a record store but still)
I find it fascinating that, even though this is a virtual world and they literally could have just done it all digitally, they STILL decided to make the experience as authentic and true to real life as possible. I feel like recent times we've become obsessed with creating systems that are as "efficient" as possible. Everything must be at your fingertips all the time. It's nice to see a more alternative perspective that actually sees the value in those imperfections and little tedious moments.
@@Elegiu5 the whole resonite ecosystem of devs are so talented too It felt like the early days of the web again before all the tech giants became giant
@@anonamos225 Somehow it doesn't surprise me, but saddens me when they could've done something way bigger than Resonite, oh well, corporate greed only breeds failure.
I love this idea. It bothered me how in VRChat you couldnt edit or create worlds while in vr, you had to download Unity and do it there. This is the Second Life VR weve been waiting for.
I was JUST thinking this was one more step closer to a true SLvr :'D If only Phil had kept to it and not sold off, we'd have a literal SLvr by now. Bro really missed out on the market D:
@@bakaichigo the problem with Sansar was they didn’t market it well and it was very limited in what you could do. it fell behind in comparison to plateforms like VRChat. I have heard they’re working on a second attempt but no new news after that
@@323starlight It was called High Fidelity. I worked support for it, and it shut down in 2020 due to not reaching enough users. The code was open source, and it is still maintained under the new project name Overte. EDIT: This includes the server, so you can run everything entirely yourself, ala OpenSim.
This is the spiritual continuation of Neos. The entire dev team and community ditched Neos and moved to create and play Resonite instead. Watch Thrillseeker's video if you want the full story on that one.
People used to compare VRChat to SecondLife, but this is really much closer to a VR SecondLife than VRChat, with being able to create things while in-game and all.
Thanks for featuring Wren, Crimson, and Rusty (Sloppy was there in the background of most shots too lol). This video was a great showcase of why we love Resonite so much. It will be great seeing more players experience what makes the game so unique. - Amplified
Just so everyone is aware that has trouble with their frames in Resonite, they recently implemented individual settings for max texture resolution in worlds, so that even if a world's textures are too big for running smoothly, you can adjust what is actually rendered for you specifically. I'm running a Geforce 970, its ancient, and since this settings update, my game is running smooth as can be.
That is so useful! Thank you for sharing 🙏🏼 vrchat sadly almost always runs like at 40 fps with my 2060 super at really low res, maybe I can get proper 90 fps in resonite
Things are about to get even better: there's a survey regarding if performance should be refined as the next update or the IK is improved for newer features and bug fixes. In short, regardless of which option is chosen next, the performance is only going to get better.
Thank You for checking out Resonite! This game is the home to a lot of people including me, and to see more popular creators talk about it makes me super happy.
THIS IS SO COOL! This is exactly the kind of thing I've been wanting from VRChat and missing. The level of creativity and personalization that is possible here is the same reason I've loved games like Little Big Planet for so long. Truly amazing stuff. Thank you for sharing!!
This is actually, I'm not even kidding, ONE OF THE COOLEST videos and subject matter I have ever seen. This one is going into my visualisation playlist.
It's good to see that this is what came of Neos VR. I have high hopes that this will finally be the social vr platform that will take the vr user experience to the next level that we've been craving.
I remember learning about Resonite in Raeal The Protogen's stream back in October, when he introduced the platform to his followers with two (three?) of the platform's developers. Looking back then when Resonite was largely unknown, I am glad to see it has gained popularity.
3:10 damn, this is crazy stuff. Althrough techically it's the same as if you did it in Unity, see it in "play mode", available for all others is mindblowing
Fantastic video, and fantastic game. Damn near anything you can possibly imagine, you can create in-game, and have it be FUNCTIONAL how you want it to. Easily the single best sandbox/social option available, no contest. Highly recommend for anyone to play it, VR or Desktop. (Also it's completely FREE lol)
I tried resonite and personally loved it at first, but always found it rather intimidating to set up avatars and assets. I think that thought has been holding me back from playing the game and really enjoying it.
Just finished my first day on Resonite and while I had help from people the setting up of my avatar was actually easier than I thought. Took me weeks to get my Avatar into VRChat and even then it was a big mess. Took me half an hour to get it in Resonite. It only SEEMS more complicated but it's actually way easier than how it's done in VRChat
The video turned out super great! Resonite has become an important part of my life, and while it might look daunting, the fact that you can have other people around you showing you how the tools work and even helping you with your own creations makes it probably one of the most accessible ways to learn how to create stuff. The community is super welcoming and open to help everyone, and I'm glad to be a part of it.
Thank you for giving Resonite the attention it deserves. I think what's preventing people from switching from VRChat to Resonite is that VRChat simply has the numbers. We need to tip the scale so that people start going to Resonite instead and videos like this help a lot, so thank you again. I will say that sometimes it's nice to have a dedicated "editor" to work on your avatar and not require someone to actually launch the client itself. I believe they are working on that, but I could be wrong. That being said, the ability to create content and not interact with "dead" worlds is monumental, unlike VRChat.
Finally got around to watching your two most recent videos! Phia, your videos are what introduced me to virtual reality and got me looking around down the rabbit hole. I'm eager to hop into VRChat and Resonite eventually. I want to wait until I have a virtual reality headset though, and I don't know when that will be. I look forward to more videos from you.
It most likely will be, they are currently choosing between an IK and full-body rework and performance, and it seems to be heavily leaning towards performance.
I don't normally comment on videos,but this video had me oooing and amazing out loud. I think the last time I was this excited for a vr game was for the beta of vrchat. I'm genuinely surprised and amazed about the features shown. What an amazing place.
5:35 The howlaround effect returns from the 60's! Visual Feedback systems are so cool and I'm so glad that they're present in a VR game. (the howlaround effect was originally used for the title sequences of the 60's run of Classic Doctor Who by using the feedback loop)
This needs more exposure and a simple things for simple people. Right now there are way to few people to call it a social platform. Creating an easy way for the people to grab content and use it, and advertising it (even through a passive "ay, look what I found" kind), would bring a huge competition to VRChat. There are people who may want to make stuff in VR and the ones who want to just see cool things, but that ratio is about 1:100. But if that's gotten big I'd love to see the chaos it brings with *this* many ways to interact.
Resonite already has an inventory system that allows you to collect things like props, toys, weapons, vehicles, and lots of tools. In VRChat I tried collecting avatars with as many toggles and options as possible. In Resonite I collect items instead of avatars and that's so much more fun
thanks for doing a spotlight and talk about this. i think i came across this platform a month or so ago with some of their older videos some other influencers did on it. this looks really promising and cool.
I remember Active Worlds, in the late 90’ties, that was impressive. I build a house there. I wonder if it still exists. This is so much more advanced, and way cooler. Only problem with the increased number of digital VR worlds, is that the population in each will be thinner, or that people feel they have to spend time in all of them to not miss out anything.
I see why you made the comparison to Ready Player One instead of VR Chat. My jaw dropped with both the interactivity and fidelity in Kulza's Record Shop. Something about the experience made me feel like you're actually there.
I inform myself on VR every day and have over 1000 hours in it now, thanks for the in-depth review full of fantastic creators to delve into. (Even though this is almost a documentary) It gave me chills and a spontaneous smile, thank you Phia as always for all the effort you put into it, when my valve index decides to work I would be happy to meet you, now maybe we can say that THIS is the future of VR!
Okay this looks really cool. It's a good sign that they are able to sponsor a video, it's a signal to me of potential longevity if they have some real backing. I will be installing this to create things!
This is absoooolutly AMAZING, Ive been playing vr since 2017 and seeing how everything has evolved has been absolutely MAGICAL, and I only recently got into vrc and with FBT, and now seeing these interactions gives me so much hope for vr and the core of the community truly building everything out and creating our own realities within virtual reality.
might not be a popular comparison, but I see this as close as it gets, and even out-doing Second Life, in VR. This makes me happy, and probably going to be in VR a lot more with this!
Very popular comparison, many of my old Second Life friends have migrated over to Resonite! The fundamental concept of building stuff in-game together with others is pretty similar, and it gets much less in your face (ProtoFlux is much more approachable and nicer to work with than LSL, worlds can be created on a whim and you don't have to pay rent for virtual real estate etc.)
This is an incredible video! Great showcasing and it just kept getting better and better - I'm legitimately blown away. This goes past gimmicky and "kinda works good enough" and is what I feel like we'd always hoped VR would be.
Only watched up to the record shop then immediately downloaded the game and have been playing for a few days. Made my avatar and everything and now I'm finishing the video 😅
I'm obsessed, this looks so cool! My only issue is that I've finally gotten used to Unity and customizing avatars for VRChat after 2 years of learning. That's part of the reason I bailed on ChilloutVR to go back to VRChat. I'm too comfortable, and I've dedicated waaaay too much time to learning Unity to move to any other platform.
I've tried this a few times and have never been able to find people to interact with. Almost everyone is hiding within private instances. TH-camrs and other influencers kind of get through a lot of gates that players would normally find to be closed to them. Unless something's changed or unless you can bring a bunch of friends and someone who actually knows what they're doing along, this is incredibly hard to get into.
That is actually really cool. I've been jumping between some VR games and really looked for something like this which would allow me to create custom games and stuff but unfortunately most of them started out great but then just stopped producing meaningful updates. I will definitely give this a try soon.
wow this is so cool - there's still so much for me to learn, now adding Resonite to my list. I wonder how all these brilliant people manage to do it all and create all these things - that's crazy :) Loved the record store too!
I REALLY like this game, but I always decide against playing it because of the minuscule around of player numbers who are actually in public joinable worlds. I had the same problem with Neos too. Its just too empty for me to really enjoy. If this game gains some traction, I can totally see it becoming my go to. Hopefully this does better than Neos. I am WILLING it does better than Neos.
At prime hours there are usually a handful of public worlds with >10 people in them. On a Friday or Saturday night I can hop between several of them and socialize for hours on end.
The Ben 10 character just simplified what it means to be an interactive world, and made it mush more immersive, based on the presentation Instead of going into a menu and selecting from a written list or URL as he said, they created a visual and seemingly physical representation of a game prompt in world. Without spelling it out for you, listing in a normal format that breaks immersion and telling you [Press f to select character], but because it's Interactive and you are visually stimulated aas well as prompted by what looks like a button, it appears familiar without being Obvious that it's just another menu form.
I've been playing about 21 hours so far and I'm loving it. I have no clue how to program or create but Resonite makes me want to learn how. There's so much potential and possibilities in this game
This is really what I've dreamed VR to be. However, what's to stop trolls with so much freedom? If each map has a consistent versioning and even models and coding are editable; how do you prevent bad actors from bricking your creations or worse?
Only those with permissions can modify and save over a world. Don't like changes someone else made? Don't save the world. You can also make it so that problematic users don't have build permissions or are banned from the session. Hope this helps!
@@cometkumavo Who decides permission though? in VRChat I can filter who and what I see client-side. In Resonite the entire world can be edited. Do I have autonomy over my own avatar, at least? Can I decide who can and can't edit my avatar? What about the world, who decides who can and can't edit the world I'm in? Is there a singular host that decides that? If I join a public world by another host to try to find friends, do I put my being/avatar/inventory at risk instead of just risking a crash due to another player's laggy or troll avatar? If Resonite is so powerful, open source, and can even read/write(?) files on my PC (like viewing or editing a PDF); are there vulnerabilities/risks to my system for playing? Thank you, and sorry for all the questions.
you have spectator, guest, builder, moderator, and admin permissions per session/world that gives various freedoms and restrictions. if someone acts up too much you can kick/ban them from the session, moderation tickets are also a things
@@Mekose i will see if i can awnser all your questions. Lets say you are the host of a world (by you creating it), you are the admin of it (the highest permission), you can grant other players the builder permission to begin editing/building things (default permission is "guest"). No one will be able to build by defualt unless they are your friend (contacts in resonite). If you suspect that someone is breaking the rules to bypass that permission system or is harassing you in some way, make a moderation ticket (and/or kick, ban, remove perms from that player, as you have ultimate control as admin). As for safety with your device, it is safe. There are nodes that can write to your PC, but they cannot function unless your world is in "unsafe" mode (which is beyond the scope of the question as that is a bit more technical, all you need to know is that any world you join is classified as safe, and no one can join an unsafe world). Your avatar (when you make it) will have a component called SimpleAvatarProtection, this stops players from taking your avatar away or saving it (you own that avatar). Your inventory is safe and no one can access that (there is a feature to allow other people to spawn things from your inventory, but that is not talked about a lot and nearly no one uses it (and you have to implicitly activate that, so you cant accedentally do that). Also currently resonite is not open source (yet, from what i hear).
Ngl, the record shop segment kinda made me a little sad. Don't get me wrong, it's really cool, I'm just in the headspace rn where the only thing I could think was that this is all we young people have as future prospects. Virtually nobody my age could start a real record store if we wanted to.
this feels actually revolutionary... i feel like this engine will probably go down as a progenitor of more sci-fi esque engines of the future. this truly for the first time feels like one can INTERACT with the virtual world as with reality (big example being physically passing screenshots/files around as if they're material objects).
OMG I just got a VR Headset this looks phenominal I used to tinker in Second Life years ago coding and modeling my own things this feels like an evolution of it minus the earning potential but wow, is this only available on steam or can it be installed on quest standalone too?
Former SL builder myself. Resonite is what SL wished it could become creatively but is a PC only experience because of its performance demands. They would love to support standalone VR but every attempt in the past fell short unless they drastically lowered the graphics and restricted what users could make to very simple things via external SDK like VRChat does. Once standalone devices can match a gaming PC's performance, they may retry it. They want to unlock the maximum possibilities of VR as a creative platform real-time in sim without relying on external SDK tools. It has OBS and Twitch integration and some vtubers now perform from Resonite. It also has built in web browser, media players, and some REST API/Websoket support to link to external services on the web to use in your sim. Resonite evolved from another platform called NEOSvr that was not allowed on Steam because Steam does not allow crypto ecoin trading platforms so they had to maintain 2 versions one without ecoins. Neos founders split and the dev team and engine creator quit after a legal battle over the source code rights because some crypto bros one of the founders were friends with forced integration then pumped and dumped their ecoin and almost made some people homeless so crypto is a very dirty word in the core community. Resonite does import/export standard file formats used by game engines for all the assets. Making assets for money though would be easier with blender and Photoshop and selling on stores like Turbosquid.
@@eltreum1 Thanks for that, I dont care so much about a revenue stream as that was only a bonus I used to give my stuff away in SL till my RL wife and a good SL friend ganged up on me to sell it instead lol I just miss the creativity and freedom that came with it. I will have to order a USB cable for my Quest 2 and give this a look I was truly smiling the entire time I was watching this video because of what this stood for.
I really hope the VRchat player base, or at least the ones who care more about creating, learning and immersion, and are bored of VRchat, move over to resonite.
I was once a vrc content creator that focused on avatars and worlds, and i made the switch to resonite and i love it here. So i feel loved reading your comment :3
I've been playing Reso/Neos for a few years and I really love it, it's super fun, everyone's super nice, most of the people who make things aren't like super stuck up, they'll just kinda hang out, and I *LOVE* programming in front of me. It just clicks in my brain in a way I didn't know I wanted, it's just so nice. My issue is just that there aren't enough people. I play VR to meet people and although I love Reso, I've met a majority of the people who play consistently so, when you compare the small-ish (like 130 people on average) to VRC's 29,000 or whatever, it's arguably the better place to meet people, as much as I dislike VRC, which really makes me sad because I love to make stuff in Reso :(
Resonite.... so cool, so much potential, so much stuff you can do, sadly its a very small comunity and the Entry level is a HUGE Wall is very restrictive to casual users.
Tbf the discord is a useful starting point for beginners that are interested in the creative side of VR, and I’d imagine that it would be best to learn the coding language in-game
this is SICK! i HOPE the future of VR social games is this. or all of VR gaming. Imagine this with the Sword art online "seed" concept, of one full Vr engine controlling multiple worlds and games, allowing players to transfer items and avatars across games. the potential is endless! or an digital asset store, where you walk throught the store, physically put it in your cart and when you checkout it gets downloaded to your PC!
They want to someday but is PC only at the time. They tried many times before to work on quest but it's just too limited for all the things their engine can do.
Not saying that what you showed off wasnt neat, but everytime people try to sell me on Neosnite, its always "look at this chaotic thing i can do" or "look at this object that i can take to any world" and i just find myself not caring because before seeing said chaotic thing, im already burnt out and iritated on just trying to play the game. The UI is just too complicated, the UX is headache inducing, avatar setup is a nightmare, fullbody setup is even worse, the worlds are empty, there isnt much to do, performance isnt great, instances are locally hosted so if the host disconnects, everyone gets disconnected, and so on and so on. I can see where there is potential, and praise what they do right, but SOO much is wrong that it makes me not return. Just my 2 cents that no one asked for 😅
I appreciate this kind of insight. I was curious what the platform does to combat trolls and bad actors, but having every world be locally hosted seems to be the answer. The pros is that you probably won't have to deal with many trolls destroying your creation, the cons are pretty awful though. Disconnects, having to wait for the latest version host to be online, forming an incredibly insular community that makes new player retention and onboarding an absolute nightmare, etc. I haven't played Resonite so I may be wrong; but how can you even risk playing in public worlds when anything and everything can be edited? Nobody is going to risk setting their worlds public to find new friends, right?
Over time things will get better. Currently the devs are focusing on performance (or IK, but you can vote for either first in their survey). They can only tackle one super large thing at a time.
@@Mekose If you host the instance local or a Patreon that runs their own 24/7 headless server to host rooms, you have full access control and can restrict what guests can do there including block access to the editor if you want. You can even force guests into an avatar of your choosing when they join instead of their own so they can't bring in crash avatars. Avatars can be set to protected so they can't be edited except by the owner when in a world with edit rights enabled. If you want to make a world and add it to the public domain directory anyone can host their own instance copy of it and set the rules or edit it without damaging the master copy, you don't have to be online, that only applies to instances you host local or non-public published worlds you store on your local machine vs their public cloud hosting and headless servers. It does have the beautiful desert problem indeed because many users are in their private home world building alone or restrict their instances to people on their friends list or invite only making them invisible in the world browser. The community does host some open public events to get people to mix but you have to follow their discord to see when those are or have a chance encounter while exploring. Some users comb the public running instances to pull them in to populated places and make friends after vetting them. It makes getting a foot in the door with communities hard but also makes most trolls give up after their first visit in 10 minutes seeing little to no action and go back to VRC declaring Resonite dead. It doesn't work on Quest stand-alone being PC only, so the community is typically more mature and tech savvy.
I'm far from a VR enthusiast, I can't even afford any headsets, but dang this has really gotten my imagination running wild! Especially SoundEgg/Kulza's segment really got me thinking. So many people lament the downfall of record and video stores, their old memories of searching shelves upon shelves of items for the perfect product to take home, actions with an almost ritualistic quality to them. But records and tapes need to be produced and distributed, outlets need to be built and maintained, and the products take up space at home. Streaming and digital downloads win in so many aspects. But a VR record store sounds so perfect for those who want to amble aimlessly and get pleasantly suprised just like most people could have 30-odd years ago, with none of the drawbacks of physical media. Of course there will always be a place and value for physical goods, including physical media. I'm just suddenly so excited for all the new ways that VR can combine the best of both worlds!
This intrigues me, I'm bothered by VRC's inevitable enchitification, but Resonite does allow private server hosting, which in a sense allows for less centralization. The lack of open source is still bothersome... Could be worth a checkout as a worthwhile competitor.
To get started as a new player, I reccomend joining their Discord! There're lots of mentors online to help onboard :)
discord.com/invite/resonite
I hope you enjoyed this video!
@@pdbsstudios7137I would say from the video it doesn't look very dead to me.
@@Heizena trust me, it's dead!
I have to be brutally honest about Resonite's community dynamics. Despite investing over 1K hours into NEOS, my efforts as a human player felt utterly invalidated. It's disheartening to witness such a lack of inclusivity in what should be a welcoming metaverse community. Even after creating numerous public worlds and assisting countless furry and human players in adapting to the platform, the hostility towards human characters persisted relentlessly. What's more disheartening is the fact that when I reached out to community moderators for support, my concerns were consistently disregarded. This dismissive attitude only serves to perpetuate the toxic environment. It's truly disappointing to see Resonite mirror the same issues as NEOS, perpetuating exclusion and prejudice rather than fostering a sense of unity and acceptance
@@lordharryx I'm sorry you've had that experience, but the people you've had the experience with don't represent the entire community. Resonite is a place for everyone, and almost noone cares what avatar you're wearing. It kind of disheartens me to see when someone had bad experiences, overall Resonite's community is the most open and welcoming I've ever seen, and I'm happy and proud to be a part of it.
Just please do not say "Pree-face", because it is pronounced as "Preh-fuhs".
I dragged my feet on every single VR program and game till the community was basically dead I'm not going to make the same mistake here. This looks really rad
wwait is it alreeady dead? .. thats really sad because it looks soo sick!
I think there talking about neos vr, this is resonite the successor to neos @Adnan-qg7ne
the community didn't really die tbh
it was alive somewhat during Neos' time. reso's just a hard fork because froox always owned the code
@@Adnan-qg7ne No, they just don't want to be getting on the bandwagon after it's already dead If it dies. RIP Hi-Fi...
Yeah i feel the same way about neosvr, its the most advanced out there besides Resonite, vrchat had gotten boring, props dont do much, doesnt feel super realistic, its the same games and same objects in different retextures in every world, nothing new, no props we can make, still cant have an avatar that isn't humanized, because where we see will be above the actual avatar, and the community and updates and somewhat behind, or just bad right now. It depresses me how simple it seems to make an amazing immersive, fantasy, somewhat realistic social vr game like neosvr, make avatars or parts of the world react to yours, props, inventory, true immersion, true home worlds, graphics like helios, etc, yet no one has taken that opportunity. Maybe its just not the best time right now, we need more people to actually want something other than vrchat, a reason for everyone to want to move over to a new platform, but it's a gold mine opportunity, for us and for the people who create it, and don't sell out to NFT/Crypto, Currently, neosvr and resonite sound promising, and resonite even more since with neosvr it could suddenly disappear, I'm definitely gonna check them out. (I'd love the ability in vrchat to have your home world never reset anything you change, like a real house you set up, unless you click a button to reset it all back the way it was.)
The concept of a community that creates because they're surrounded by a community that creates is just so very wholesome to me.
That's what the old internet used to be, just people making websites and forums. That is until social media. I'm just happy that something remotely similar yet so different is being brought to the table
This is the future of VR I've dreamed of. To all the creative people making amazing things, thank you so much! Triple A games can't hope to compete with you guys!
rec room already has been doing this, they literally just copied rec room
@@jordan3636 isn’t rec room the meta social thing?
@@jordan3636 you know this is not the same...
Triple Ehh hasn't kept up with the indie scene in a long time, in my opinion
@@jordan3636 Rec room is no where near the quality this is. I would know I have played Rec room alot.
Amazing video! Really appreciate the screentime lol
You would
@@Shadow__X I would!
I appreciate that you rebuilt your old avatar from Anyland.
@@ClokworkGremlin It's so cool to see people in the comments here that remember me! I'm working on a showcase video actually that I hope to have out by the end of next week, it's been nearly three years of development on this thing.
@@RustyManufacturingyour avatar was so cool man! Really well done
7:08 physically organizing new records to keep the sense of presence is such a fun idea and the aesthetic of the place is nice, it seems like a great way to discover new music (I know it's literally just a record store but still)
I find it fascinating that, even though this is a virtual world and they literally could have just done it all digitally, they STILL decided to make the experience as authentic and true to real life as possible.
I feel like recent times we've become obsessed with creating systems that are as "efficient" as possible. Everything must be at your fingertips all the time. It's nice to see a more alternative perspective that actually sees the value in those imperfections and little tedious moments.
Frooxius is a gigachad dev, the whole engine was initially built by him single handedly
he's always been a genius, i met him back on the furnet days and he's always been doing very cool things!
@@Elegiu5 the whole resonite ecosystem of devs are so talented too
It felt like the early days of the web again before all the tech giants became giant
The robots switching heads was GOAT move 10/10
You'd honestly be hard-pressed to find a robot that CAN'T swap out some of their parts around here lol
20 people's team built this, Meta should really think about what they did with horizon worlds all these years
They were building all the backend systems to harvest user data and distribute ads. Making a good game was never the primary goal.
@@anonamos225 Somehow it doesn't surprise me, but saddens me when they could've done something way bigger than Resonite, oh well, corporate greed only breeds failure.
I literally have no words. Seriously one of the most mindblowing things in VR I’ve seen in a while
….. how about riff xr??
"You look different from last time I saw you"
"I looksmaxxed" 😂
I love this idea. It bothered me how in VRChat you couldnt edit or create worlds while in vr, you had to download Unity and do it there.
This is the Second Life VR weve been waiting for.
I was JUST thinking this was one more step closer to a true SLvr :'D If only Phil had kept to it and not sold off, we'd have a literal SLvr by now. Bro really missed out on the market D:
@@bakaichigo the problem with Sansar was they didn’t market it well and it was very limited in what you could do. it fell behind in comparison to plateforms like VRChat. I have heard they’re working on a second attempt but no new news after that
@@323starlight It was called High Fidelity. I worked support for it, and it shut down in 2020 due to not reaching enough users. The code was open source, and it is still maintained under the new project name Overte.
EDIT: This includes the server, so you can run everything entirely yourself, ala OpenSim.
YESSS second life in vr
Im waiting for the day you can set up stores and buy and sell in VR.
man, this is the most advanced vr thing I've seen since Neos. looks really neat.
This is the spiritual continuation of Neos.
The entire dev team and community ditched Neos and moved to create and play Resonite instead.
Watch Thrillseeker's video if you want the full story on that one.
People used to compare VRChat to SecondLife, but this is really much closer to a VR SecondLife than VRChat, with being able to create things while in-game and all.
Thanks for featuring Wren, Crimson, and Rusty (Sloppy was there in the background of most shots too lol). This video was a great showcase of why we love Resonite so much. It will be great seeing more players experience what makes the game so unique. - Amplified
Just so everyone is aware that has trouble with their frames in Resonite, they recently implemented individual settings for max texture resolution in worlds, so that even if a world's textures are too big for running smoothly, you can adjust what is actually rendered for you specifically. I'm running a Geforce 970, its ancient, and since this settings update, my game is running smooth as can be.
That is so useful! Thank you for sharing 🙏🏼 vrchat sadly almost always runs like at 40 fps with my 2060 super at really low res, maybe I can get proper 90 fps in resonite
@@B4nan0n vrchat runs BELOW 40 fps for me in a busy instance. I have a 4090
Things are about to get even better: there's a survey regarding if performance should be refined as the next update or the IK is improved for newer features and bug fixes. In short, regardless of which option is chosen next, the performance is only going to get better.
Also running a 970... Fossil hardware gang
I was here to ask about this ahah
Thank You for checking out Resonite! This game is the home to a lot of people including me, and to see more popular creators talk about it makes me super happy.
Same here
Oh wow, it’s nice to see your name again Moonbase! I don’t know if you remember or not
@@duskdealer258 delete you’re commercial
THIS IS SO COOL! This is exactly the kind of thing I've been wanting from VRChat and missing. The level of creativity and personalization that is possible here is the same reason I've loved games like Little Big Planet for so long. Truly amazing stuff. Thank you for sharing!!
This is actually, I'm not even kidding, ONE OF THE COOLEST videos and subject matter I have ever seen. This one is going into my visualisation playlist.
3:00 woaaaah people working together on importing a model while in VR is super cool!
this is like such a wholesome version of playing pretend for adults, and getting the enrichment a lot of us dont have in real life.
It's good to see that this is what came of Neos VR. I have high hopes that this will finally be the social vr platform that will take the vr user experience to the next level that we've been craving.
This is the coolest thing I have ever seen, I have always wanted something like this. Thank you for showcasing this, I think I am going to enjoy this
I remember learning about Resonite in Raeal The Protogen's stream back in October, when he introduced the platform to his followers with two (three?) of the platform's developers.
Looking back then when Resonite was largely unknown, I am glad to see it has gained popularity.
Not only is Resonite truly EPIC, but unlike VRChat, you aren't automatically a degen as soon as you join!
Can't wait to jump in!
Also I love the lack of mirror dwellers. Everyone us doing something. Even those at mirrors aren't bored whatsoever.
3:10 damn, this is crazy stuff. Althrough techically it's the same as if you did it in Unity, see it in "play mode", available for all others is mindblowing
This actually looks really cool! Always great to see more content in VR!
Fantastic video, and fantastic game.
Damn near anything you can possibly imagine, you can create in-game, and have it be FUNCTIONAL how you want it to.
Easily the single best sandbox/social option available, no contest.
Highly recommend for anyone to play it, VR or Desktop. (Also it's completely FREE lol)
Schloppy
I tried resonite and personally loved it at first, but always found it rather intimidating to set up avatars and assets. I think that thought has been holding me back from playing the game and really enjoying it.
If you need help with anything, you can ask around and mentors (including myself) can help.
Just finished my first day on Resonite and while I had help from people the setting up of my avatar was actually easier than I thought. Took me weeks to get my Avatar into VRChat and even then it was a big mess. Took me half an hour to get it in Resonite. It only SEEMS more complicated but it's actually way easier than how it's done in VRChat
I’m sold. Haven’t been in VR in a minute but this looks like a lot of fun
The video turned out super great! Resonite has become an important part of my life, and while it might look daunting, the fact that you can have other people around you showing you how the tools work and even helping you with your own creations makes it probably one of the most accessible ways to learn how to create stuff. The community is super welcoming and open to help everyone, and I'm glad to be a part of it.
Thank you for giving Resonite the attention it deserves. I think what's preventing people from switching from VRChat to Resonite is that VRChat simply has the numbers. We need to tip the scale so that people start going to Resonite instead and videos like this help a lot, so thank you again.
I will say that sometimes it's nice to have a dedicated "editor" to work on your avatar and not require someone to actually launch the client itself. I believe they are working on that, but I could be wrong. That being said, the ability to create content and not interact with "dead" worlds is monumental, unlike VRChat.
Finally got around to watching your two most recent videos! Phia, your videos are what introduced me to virtual reality and got me looking around down the rabbit hole. I'm eager to hop into VRChat and Resonite eventually. I want to wait until I have a virtual reality headset though, and I don't know when that will be. I look forward to more videos from you.
Hopefully the next focus will be performance, then it will become my second most played game xD
It most likely will be, they are currently choosing between an IK and full-body rework and performance, and it seems to be heavily leaning towards performance.
I don't normally comment on videos,but this video had me oooing and amazing out loud. I think the last time I was this excited for a vr game was for the beta of vrchat. I'm genuinely surprised and amazed about the features shown. What an amazing place.
5:35 The howlaround effect returns from the 60's! Visual Feedback systems are so cool and I'm so glad that they're present in a VR game.
(the howlaround effect was originally used for the title sequences of the 60's run of Classic Doctor Who by using the feedback loop)
VR in general just needs more advertising. I didn’t even know this game existed and it looks amazing!!
This needs more exposure and a simple things for simple people. Right now there are way to few people to call it a social platform. Creating an easy way for the people to grab content and use it, and advertising it (even through a passive "ay, look what I found" kind), would bring a huge competition to VRChat.
There are people who may want to make stuff in VR and the ones who want to just see cool things, but that ratio is about 1:100.
But if that's gotten big I'd love to see the chaos it brings with *this* many ways to interact.
Resonite already has an inventory system that allows you to collect things like props, toys, weapons, vehicles, and lots of tools. In VRChat I tried collecting avatars with as many toggles and options as possible. In Resonite I collect items instead of avatars and that's so much more fun
thanks for doing a spotlight and talk about this.
i think i came across this platform a month or so ago with some of their older videos some other influencers did on it.
this looks really promising and cool.
I remember Active Worlds, in the late 90’ties, that was impressive. I build a house there. I wonder if it still exists. This is so much more advanced, and way cooler. Only problem with the increased number of digital VR worlds, is that the population in each will be thinner, or that people feel they have to spend time in all of them to not miss out anything.
I see why you made the comparison to Ready Player One instead of VR Chat. My jaw dropped with both the interactivity and fidelity in Kulza's Record Shop. Something about the experience made me feel like you're actually there.
I inform myself on VR every day and have over 1000 hours in it now, thanks for the in-depth review full of fantastic creators to delve into. (Even though this is almost a documentary)
It gave me chills and a spontaneous smile, thank you Phia as always for all the effort you put into it, when my valve index decides to work I would be happy to meet you, now maybe we can say that THIS is the future of VR!
Fantastic showcase! You showed off some stuff I've never even thought possible! Great inspiration for me to try harder, thanks!
wow, this is absolutely INSANE. I love your VR channel.
Resonite deserves so much credit, the development team and friends are doing such good work. ✨
Fuck yeah, I was hoping the Neos guys that split off would get back together like this.
This video is really good. I will be using this as my go to for showing off the platform.
Thank you so much for creating this.
i hope that this project will become a real competition to vrchat at some point, this is amazing
Okay this looks really cool. It's a good sign that they are able to sponsor a video, it's a signal to me of potential longevity if they have some real backing. I will be installing this to create things!
This is absoooolutly AMAZING, Ive been playing vr since 2017 and seeing how everything has evolved has been absolutely MAGICAL, and I only recently got into vrc and with FBT, and now seeing these interactions gives me so much hope for vr and the core of the community truly building everything out and creating our own realities within virtual reality.
i know a couple of the devs, but only through my friends. theyre all great. and chaos and violence is completely normal in resonite
might not be a popular comparison, but I see this as close as it gets, and even out-doing Second Life, in VR. This makes me happy, and probably going to be in VR a lot more with this!
Very popular comparison, many of my old Second Life friends have migrated over to Resonite! The fundamental concept of building stuff in-game together with others is pretty similar, and it gets much less in your face (ProtoFlux is much more approachable and nicer to work with than LSL, worlds can be created on a whim and you don't have to pay rent for virtual real estate etc.)
Absolutely loved the video, thanks for showing off all of our hard work :D, I hope this will inspire many to give the platform a try
I'm glad big vrchat creators are talking about resonite (even if it's because they're sponsored), id love to see this game become more popular
Nice covering of Resonite Phia ! looks amazing !
This is an incredible video! Great showcasing and it just kept getting better and better - I'm legitimately blown away. This goes past gimmicky and "kinda works good enough" and is what I feel like we'd always hoped VR would be.
Looking at this kind of VR stuff really makes feel like making weapons in a VRMMO could be as fun if not more than going off and fighting monsters.
Only watched up to the record shop then immediately downloaded the game and have been playing for a few days. Made my avatar and everything and now I'm finishing the video 😅
I remember how nice the community from Neos were, and I'm so glad it's not dead.
I'm obsessed, this looks so cool! My only issue is that I've finally gotten used to Unity and customizing avatars for VRChat after 2 years of learning. That's part of the reason I bailed on ChilloutVR to go back to VRChat. I'm too comfortable, and I've dedicated waaaay too much time to learning Unity to move to any other platform.
I world hopped to your studio the other day and went exploring there, I think it's cool that people can see and explore where you film
I've tried this a few times and have never been able to find people to interact with. Almost everyone is hiding within private instances. TH-camrs and other influencers kind of get through a lot of gates that players would normally find to be closed to them. Unless something's changed or unless you can bring a bunch of friends and someone who actually knows what they're doing along, this is incredibly hard to get into.
Just go to your world menu and click on active sessions there's always a few that you can join
That is actually really cool. I've been jumping between some VR games and really looked for something like this which would allow me to create custom games and stuff but unfortunately most of them started out great but then just stopped producing meaningful updates. I will definitely give this a try soon.
wow this is so cool - there's still so much for me to learn, now adding Resonite to my list. I wonder how all these brilliant people manage to do it all and create all these things - that's crazy :) Loved the record store too!
I REALLY like this game, but I always decide against playing it because of the minuscule around of player numbers who are actually in public joinable worlds. I had the same problem with Neos too. Its just too empty for me to really enjoy. If this game gains some traction, I can totally see it becoming my go to. Hopefully this does better than Neos. I am WILLING it does better than Neos.
At prime hours there are usually a handful of public worlds with >10 people in them. On a Friday or Saturday night I can hop between several of them and socialize for hours on end.
Rec room is like, “Do I not exist??”
But this is really cool I’ll definitely try it out
Great to see more coverage on Resonite! Looks like I know the act to follow, lol
Look forward to seeing your video!
It looks like the beginnings of The Oasis from Ready Player One!! This is the start of something fantastical!
That’s so cool! I love the concept of resonite
This is the most serotonin a vr video has given me ❤
That was absolute chaos and I am fascinated. But also mildly intimidated by the complexity.
Gonna have to check this out thanks for bringing it to light Phia! Lots of love from Joshosh & the rest of us! We love your videos!
The Ben 10 character just simplified what it means to be an interactive world, and made it mush more immersive, based on the presentation
Instead of going into a menu and selecting from a written list or URL as he said, they created a visual and seemingly physical representation of a game prompt in world. Without spelling it out for you, listing in a normal format that breaks immersion and telling you [Press f to select character], but because it's Interactive and you are visually stimulated aas well as prompted by what looks like a button, it appears familiar without being Obvious that it's just another menu form.
VR discovering records is amazing
This is so cool! One thing that concerns me a bit is all the griefing that could happen
Session hosts can kick or ban anyone
Not gonna lie, this looks like an improved version of VRChat, the level of customization is insane!
So sick to see you cover this!! excited to see if this starts an inflow of new users
I just spent five hours helping new users lol
So this is litterally Second Life VR.
Not even 2 minutes in and this might get me to play VR more. This looks sick
I've been playing about 21 hours so far and I'm loving it. I have no clue how to program or create but Resonite makes me want to learn how. There's so much potential and possibilities in this game
This is really what I've dreamed VR to be.
However, what's to stop trolls with so much freedom? If each map has a consistent versioning and even models and coding are editable; how do you prevent bad actors from bricking your creations or worse?
Only those with permissions can modify and save over a world. Don't like changes someone else made? Don't save the world. You can also make it so that problematic users don't have build permissions or are banned from the session. Hope this helps!
@@cometkumavo Who decides permission though?
in VRChat I can filter who and what I see client-side. In Resonite the entire world can be edited. Do I have autonomy over my own avatar, at least? Can I decide who can and can't edit my avatar?
What about the world, who decides who can and can't edit the world I'm in? Is there a singular host that decides that? If I join a public world by another host to try to find friends, do I put my being/avatar/inventory at risk instead of just risking a crash due to another player's laggy or troll avatar?
If Resonite is so powerful, open source, and can even read/write(?) files on my PC (like viewing or editing a PDF); are there vulnerabilities/risks to my system for playing?
Thank you, and sorry for all the questions.
you have spectator, guest, builder, moderator, and admin permissions per session/world that gives various freedoms and restrictions. if someone acts up too much you can kick/ban them from the session, moderation tickets are also a things
@@Mekose i will see if i can awnser all your questions. Lets say you are the host of a world (by you creating it), you are the admin of it (the highest permission), you can grant other players the builder permission to begin editing/building things (default permission is "guest"). No one will be able to build by defualt unless they are your friend (contacts in resonite). If you suspect that someone is breaking the rules to bypass that permission system or is harassing you in some way, make a moderation ticket (and/or kick, ban, remove perms from that player, as you have ultimate control as admin). As for safety with your device, it is safe. There are nodes that can write to your PC, but they cannot function unless your world is in "unsafe" mode (which is beyond the scope of the question as that is a bit more technical, all you need to know is that any world you join is classified as safe, and no one can join an unsafe world). Your avatar (when you make it) will have a component called SimpleAvatarProtection, this stops players from taking your avatar away or saving it (you own that avatar). Your inventory is safe and no one can access that (there is a feature to allow other people to spawn things from your inventory, but that is not talked about a lot and nearly no one uses it (and you have to implicitly activate that, so you cant accedentally do that). Also currently resonite is not open source (yet, from what i hear).
This looks really cool, I've added it to my steam library to try
Ngl, the record shop segment kinda made me a little sad. Don't get me wrong, it's really cool, I'm just in the headspace rn where the only thing I could think was that this is all we young people have as future prospects. Virtually nobody my age could start a real record store if we wanted to.
Such an awesome video Phia! I can't wait to explore this game more!
These player creations are insane! I definitely gotta give this a try
this feels actually revolutionary... i feel like this engine will probably go down as a progenitor of more sci-fi esque engines of the future. this truly for the first time feels like one can INTERACT with the virtual world as with reality (big example being physically passing screenshots/files around as if they're material objects).
I'd love to see Resonite show up in videos more
Most likely won’t
OMG I just got a VR Headset this looks phenominal I used to tinker in Second Life years ago coding and modeling my own things this feels like an evolution of it minus the earning potential but wow, is this only available on steam or can it be installed on quest standalone too?
Former SL builder myself. Resonite is what SL wished it could become creatively but is a PC only experience because of its performance demands. They would love to support standalone VR but every attempt in the past fell short unless they drastically lowered the graphics and restricted what users could make to very simple things via external SDK like VRChat does. Once standalone devices can match a gaming PC's performance, they may retry it. They want to unlock the maximum possibilities of VR as a creative platform real-time in sim without relying on external SDK tools. It has OBS and Twitch integration and some vtubers now perform from Resonite. It also has built in web browser, media players, and some REST API/Websoket support to link to external services on the web to use in your sim.
Resonite evolved from another platform called NEOSvr that was not allowed on Steam because Steam does not allow crypto ecoin trading platforms so they had to maintain 2 versions one without ecoins. Neos founders split and the dev team and engine creator quit after a legal battle over the source code rights because some crypto bros one of the founders were friends with forced integration then pumped and dumped their ecoin and almost made some people homeless so crypto is a very dirty word in the core community. Resonite does import/export standard file formats used by game engines for all the assets. Making assets for money though would be easier with blender and Photoshop and selling on stores like Turbosquid.
@@eltreum1 Thanks for that, I dont care so much about a revenue stream as that was only a bonus I used to give my stuff away in SL till my RL wife and a good SL friend ganged up on me to sell it instead lol I just miss the creativity and freedom that came with it.
I will have to order a USB cable for my Quest 2 and give this a look I was truly smiling the entire time I was watching this video because of what this stood for.
I personally liked the "Octo arms", which has SIX "arms".
I really hope the VRchat player base, or at least the ones who care more about creating, learning and immersion, and are bored of VRchat, move over to resonite.
I was once a vrc content creator that focused on avatars and worlds, and i made the switch to resonite and i love it here. So i feel loved reading your comment :3
@@AmasterAmaster ♡ I hope the game succeeds and everyone is happy.
I've been playing Reso/Neos for a few years and I really love it, it's super fun, everyone's super nice, most of the people who make things aren't like super stuck up, they'll just kinda hang out, and I *LOVE* programming in front of me. It just clicks in my brain in a way I didn't know I wanted, it's just so nice. My issue is just that there aren't enough people. I play VR to meet people and although I love Reso, I've met a majority of the people who play consistently so, when you compare the small-ish (like 130 people on average) to VRC's 29,000 or whatever, it's arguably the better place to meet people, as much as I dislike VRC, which really makes me sad because I love to make stuff in Reso :(
Resonite.... so cool, so much potential, so much stuff you can do, sadly its a very small comunity and the Entry level is a HUGE Wall is very restrictive to casual users.
What do you mean by a huge wall? Can you please describe it to me?
Tbf the discord is a useful starting point for beginners that are interested in the creative side of VR, and I’d imagine that it would be best to learn the coding language in-game
You do such a good job showing this platform off.
so happy that ar and vr are finally gaining traction! I'm excited to see what the next gen of actually affordable headsets are
More like Ready Player One
this is SICK!
i HOPE the future of VR social games is this. or all of VR gaming.
Imagine this with the Sword art online "seed" concept, of one full Vr engine controlling multiple worlds and games, allowing players to transfer items and avatars across games.
the potential is endless!
or an digital asset store, where you walk throught the store, physically put it in your cart and when you checkout it gets downloaded to your PC!
God I need to start playing this, but it’s not on quest is it?
They want to someday but is PC only at the time. They tried many times before to work on quest but it's just too limited for all the things their engine can do.
@@eltreum1 just more incentive for me to get a vr ready pc😎
as a learning game dev i thought resonite programming is just gonna be like rec room. but this is the future i dreamed of. this is incredible!
Not saying that what you showed off wasnt neat, but everytime people try to sell me on Neosnite, its always "look at this chaotic thing i can do" or "look at this object that i can take to any world" and i just find myself not caring because before seeing said chaotic thing, im already burnt out and iritated on just trying to play the game. The UI is just too complicated, the UX is headache inducing, avatar setup is a nightmare, fullbody setup is even worse, the worlds are empty, there isnt much to do, performance isnt great, instances are locally hosted so if the host disconnects, everyone gets disconnected, and so on and so on.
I can see where there is potential, and praise what they do right, but SOO much is wrong that it makes me not return.
Just my 2 cents that no one asked for 😅
I appreciate this kind of insight. I was curious what the platform does to combat trolls and bad actors, but having every world be locally hosted seems to be the answer. The pros is that you probably won't have to deal with many trolls destroying your creation, the cons are pretty awful though. Disconnects, having to wait for the latest version host to be online, forming an incredibly insular community that makes new player retention and onboarding an absolute nightmare, etc.
I haven't played Resonite so I may be wrong; but how can you even risk playing in public worlds when anything and everything can be edited? Nobody is going to risk setting their worlds public to find new friends, right?
Over time things will get better. Currently the devs are focusing on performance (or IK, but you can vote for either first in their survey). They can only tackle one super large thing at a time.
@@Mekose If you host the instance local or a Patreon that runs their own 24/7 headless server to host rooms, you have full access control and can restrict what guests can do there including block access to the editor if you want. You can even force guests into an avatar of your choosing when they join instead of their own so they can't bring in crash avatars. Avatars can be set to protected so they can't be edited except by the owner when in a world with edit rights enabled. If you want to make a world and add it to the public domain directory anyone can host their own instance copy of it and set the rules or edit it without damaging the master copy, you don't have to be online, that only applies to instances you host local or non-public published worlds you store on your local machine vs their public cloud hosting and headless servers.
It does have the beautiful desert problem indeed because many users are in their private home world building alone or restrict their instances to people on their friends list or invite only making them invisible in the world browser. The community does host some open public events to get people to mix but you have to follow their discord to see when those are or have a chance encounter while exploring. Some users comb the public running instances to pull them in to populated places and make friends after vetting them. It makes getting a foot in the door with communities hard but also makes most trolls give up after their first visit in 10 minutes seeing little to no action and go back to VRC declaring Resonite dead. It doesn't work on Quest stand-alone being PC only, so the community is typically more mature and tech savvy.
I'm far from a VR enthusiast, I can't even afford any headsets, but dang this has really gotten my imagination running wild!
Especially SoundEgg/Kulza's segment really got me thinking. So many people lament the downfall of record and video stores, their old memories of searching shelves upon shelves of items for the perfect product to take home, actions with an almost ritualistic quality to them. But records and tapes need to be produced and distributed, outlets need to be built and maintained, and the products take up space at home. Streaming and digital downloads win in so many aspects. But a VR record store sounds so perfect for those who want to amble aimlessly and get pleasantly suprised just like most people could have 30-odd years ago, with none of the drawbacks of physical media.
Of course there will always be a place and value for physical goods, including physical media. I'm just suddenly so excited for all the new ways that VR can combine the best of both worlds!
You can play it in desktop mode
This intrigues me, I'm bothered by VRC's inevitable enchitification, but Resonite does allow private server hosting, which in a sense allows for less centralization. The lack of open source is still bothersome... Could be worth a checkout as a worthwhile competitor.