>>301811281
talking about vr and talking about vrchat are, IMO, two separate things.
though both can be often summed up by immersion.
It's one thing to play a game. It's another to actually feel like you are *in* the game.

the fact that VRC is just kind of an overglorified chatroom, is made different from making friends in something like discord or a chartroom, in the fact that again, there is physical immersion. It's not just text on a screen and/or voice attached to a static picture on their name, the person is actually there, you can wave hi, high five, sit down in a virtual bar and talk like you would irl, etc.

The immersion is what VR offers. And that's something that often can't really be explained. I had a coworker. he was fairly normie, nice guy though, the extent of his videogame playing was sports games, hearthstone, maybe some light fortnite. (and whatever classics he still had for old consoles) he got PSVR and played maybe some simple shooting gallery type games, and he loved vr. even a simple game is suddenly much more immersive when you can look around and actually move your hands etc.