VRChat Not Only Has Avatars With Legs — The Community Has Full-Body, Group Workout Sessions!

my litmus test for “is your VR metaverse app even remotely as good as vrchat” is “are furries holding actual exercise classes in it” pic.twitter.com/Pd2mFPbr0k

— Aura🥨🥨🥨 (@MOOMANiBE) October 11, 2022

Apropos of nothing (or is it everything?), here’s dozens of VRChat furries exercising together in real time while wearing full body VR rigs so that all their limbs move. Yes, including their legs.

“In this room specifically for our ‘super Saturday sessions’ we average about 30 users across the globe,” the host of VR Fitness & Biking, explains to me.

“[We’re] working in a world built within the VRChat platform utilizing various hip, hand, and leg tracking so that movements can be seen!”

You can watch the whole session on the community’s Twitch, and the collective huffing and puffing you hear makes it pretty clear they’re actually working out in real life as well. And far as I can tell, VRChat the company had nothing to do with this, but is yet another organic community to emerge in the virtual world. I wonder if it has anything to do with Quest 2 owners preferring VRChat over paid apps, as John Carmack mentioned recently.

Hat tip: Aura, who sagely says: “My litmus test for ‘Is your VR metaverse app even remotely as good as VRChat?’ is ‘Are furries holding actual exercise classes in it’?” Yes.