With the recent quarantine and distanced learning requirements that the government has declared everyone is found with a lack of social intercourse. For many individuals, they rely on there schooling and work to provide the social interactions that we as humans require as a species. This has become painfully obvious when having to interact with your family for the next 2 months with no escape.

Now as a gamer, and introvert in most circumstances, this quarantine does not feel as impactful as it may for the extroverted individuals. One aspect that has felt impacted is the constant hovering of family members in my personal circle. Much of my daily life consists of playing games in a discord call or doing work in a discord call, pretty much I am always in a discord call. Normally this is enough socializing to make me feel adequate, but lately it has felt like I spend to much time sitting in my chair just moving my fingers to type or click a mouse.

This is where Virtual Reality comes in. Recently I have gone back to playing VRChat which offers infinitely customizable avatars as long as you can model it in Blender or Unity. For many this is some Anime Cat girl or Popular internet meme made 3D. You can do almost anything in the game from Playing mini games with friends to watching movies or just chilling in front of a mirror. The game offers several different maps made by creators to accommodate any activity from Bars, Dance Clubs and even a Bowling Alley. Playing the game feels like going out and partying with some friends.

Recently some larger streamers such as Chance “Sodapoppin” Morris and Felix “XQC” Lengyel have taken to playing this game on stream making it gain more exposure which has seemed to bring more and more users of the twitch culture to the player base. Even if you don’t have any online friends you could easily enter a lobby in the game and find someone to join within minutes even as a mute if you are using a vr headset.

https://vrchat.com/