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Nobody's There: The First Failed Metaverse
wherein i say "there" three thousand times in one video
caw: straszvr
discord: discord.strasz.tv
twitch: twitch.tv/straszgaming
sources/music: strasz.tv/nobodys-there-the-first-failed-metaverse
0:00 Introduction
2:05 Part 1: What's There?
11:32 Part 2: There's Money
22:14 Part 3: There's Failure
32:36 Part 4: Nobody's There
a big thank you to everyone that patiently waited for this one. this past year was one of the toughest of my life, and making videos about things no one cares about was something that just fell to the backburner. hopefully the next one will be much sooner. love you all.
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Active Worlds: The 27-Year-Old Virtual World You Haven't Heard Of
Просмотров 27 тыс.2 года назад
alt text: the only metaverse that ever mattered caw: straszvr discord: discord.strasz.tv twitch: twitch.tv/straszgaming additional reading music: strasz.tv/active-worlds-the-27-year-old-virtual-world-you-havent-heard-of/ Like this video? You can thank the folks that donated over $3,000 to my trans rights charity stream! The highest goal tier was making a new video essay in two weeks...
Help me raise money for trans rights!
Просмотров 6 тыс.2 года назад
I will be doing a charity stream on February 3, time TBA (but likely to start around 8 - 10 PM EST). Here's the catch: you get to control what that stream actually *is*: Here is the poll - please fill it out: forms.gle/MDy9Q6da59zPmrm86 Please follow me on Twitter (or join the Discord) to keep on top of the details: Twitter: straszvr Discord: discord.strasz.tv
No One Knows What the Metaverse Is
Просмотров 12 тыс.2 года назад
alt text: i am from 1992 and what is this caw: straszvr discord: discord.strasz.tv twitch: twitch.tv/straszgaming sources: strasz.tv/video-10-sources/ 0:00 Intro 1:55 Part One: That Book 7:24 Part Two: No Context 20:59 Part Three: Not My Meta 29:49 Part Four: What Now? thank you to White Bat Audio for providing music for this video, also thanks to EvilToaster for being rad and helpi...
Full Dive VR Isn't Happening in Our Lifetime
Просмотров 35 тыс.2 года назад
alt text: strasz comes back after 4 months to rain on your parade caw: straszvr discord: discord.strasz.tv twitch: twitch.tv/straszgaming sources: strasz.tv/video-9-sources/ 0:00 Intro 1:53 Part 1: The Basics of Full Dive VR and BCIs 6:03 Part 2: The Medical, Ethical, and Philosophical Challenges of "Full Dive" VR 15:12 Part 3: Practical Challenges 20:48 End
Here’s How to Join a Virtual Reality Rave
Просмотров 36 тыс.3 года назад
Alt: spending thousands to reenact those goth kids dancing under that bridge After making my list video, I kept having people reach out to me, asking me basically the same question: how do I join a #VRChat rave? Well, this video is the answer. This will take you from zero literally not having VRChat installed and knowing nothing about VR to partying and hanging out. Index 0:00 Intro 0:40 Gettin...
The Virtual Underground: An Introduction to VRChat's Rave Scene
Просмотров 167 тыс.3 года назад
alt: anime girl party time let's goooooooooooo Join the Discord: discord.gg/VuwQ2tSFr7 Hit up my stream: twitch.tv/straszgaming The Virtual Underground is an hour-long tour of VRChat’s thriving, underground music scene.In this documentary, Strasz discusses what makes the #VRChat rave scene so special, featuring interviews with some of the most prominent members of the scene, including BarryBlue...
A Defense of the (VRChat) Mirror
Просмотров 19 тыс.3 года назад
alt title: part one in a series on defending eboy culture Seriously though, just let people enjoy the mirror, man. Index: 0:00 Intro 2:22 Seeing / Feeling 11:09 Seeing / Together 16:03 Credits Footless Jo's video on mirror therapy: ruclips.net/video/1ytw4GMz88Y/видео.html Sources: H. Henrik Ehrsson, Charles Spence, Richard E. Passingham, “That’s My Hand! Activity in Premotor Cortex Reflects Fee...
Identity, Gender, and VRChat (Why is everyone in VR an anime girl?)
Просмотров 543 тыс.3 года назад
Alt title: Seriously though, why is everyone so cute on this program Like my content? Want to talk about the video at length? Join my Discord: discord.gg/VuwQ2tSFr7 I have so much more to say on this topic. If this video does well, I might host a stream Q&A or something. Index: 0:00 Introduction 4:56 Chapter 1: The Basics 17:28 Chapter 2: The Community 28:11 Chapter 3: Anime Girls 37:02 Chapter...
The REAL Reason VRChat is Magical
Просмотров 18 тыс.3 года назад
alt title: emotions and friendship :C So, this is a short one. Extremely so, for me. I've actually been working on a (very) long video, that'll likely dwarf the original VRChat is Magical video. It's the video I really wanted to make about VRChat back when I was first starting out, but knew I couldn't just like... come out of the gate with it. I wanted to get it done by the end of the year, but...
We've gotta talk about Seraphine...
Просмотров 6 тыс.3 года назад
Alt title: Ehhhhhhhhhhh maybe, uh, don't? I promise a new VRChat video is coming soon. But I had to just get this out there! Index: 0:00 Part 1: Introduction 3:12 Part 2: Marketers aren't cool 8:00 Part 3: Creative responsibility 16:22 Part 4: i don't even, man 18:12 Part 4: Final thoughts OTHER STUFF: You can find Stephanie's Medium post here: step-nie.medium.com/the-problem-with-seraphine-58d...
Speedrunning in Classic WoW is Bad
Просмотров 2,5 тыс.3 года назад
Alternate title: Players will 100% figure out how to flex on each other, especially in MMOs that are old enough to drive. Join the Discord! discord.gg/VuwQ2tSFr7 Index: 0:00 Introduction 1:30 Chapter 1: The Challenge of World of Warcraft Classic 10:37 Chapter 2: World Buffs Speed = ??? 17:08 Chapter 3: A New Meta, A New Difficulty 26:24 Chapter 4: Final Thoughts 32:32 Credits MUSIC: Music Credi...
Here's Why VRChat is the New (Old) Internet
Просмотров 55 тыс.3 года назад
#VRChat is magical it's also the new (old) Internet. Here's why. Discord: discord.strasz.tv Tweet: straszvr This was previously titled "VRChat is Magical: A Video Essay," but I changed it to better describe the thesis. Index: 0:00 Introduction 3:13 Chapter 1: Explaining VRChat 7:10 Chapter 2: Virtual History 15:13 Chapter 3: What Was Lost 25:58 Chapter 4: The New, Old Internet 36:14...

Комментарии

  • @RoseRelisnot
    @RoseRelisnot 11 дней назад

    22:32 The way he said "I wanna be cute too" is just- 😊

  • @alyssinwilliams4570
    @alyssinwilliams4570 12 дней назад

    if I had *any* sort of 3d modeling skills (or... visual arts skills enough to learn 3d) i would strongly consider recreating a couple of my FFXIV characters as avatars 🥲

  • @alyssinwilliams4570
    @alyssinwilliams4570 12 дней назад

    dysphoria can at times be cripplingly painful mentally and emotionally 😭

  • @KMNXMUSIC
    @KMNXMUSIC 13 дней назад

    can you do it with side quest

  • @thatguyfromnz2029
    @thatguyfromnz2029 15 дней назад

    Thanks for psoting this I was a citizen on Alphaworld for quite a while as a kid. This brings back so many memories. Everytime after school i would get on and spend hours on there playing. Went back on the other day to try and find my house, unfortunately i coudnt. Used to have some friends on there, to this day would only just like to meet them again and see wat they are up to.

  • @HoradrimBR
    @HoradrimBR 15 дней назад

    I never got why a non-trans/femboy/etc would use as his internet face an anime girl. Why do that? For me, the ideia was to put some character relatable and aspirational, as much as I think there're good anime girls, they could never be aspiracional to me, ever. There's nothing there for me to use as an internet mask. Outside trolling or some kind of gender disphoria that naver made sense to me.

  • @virtualworldsbyloff
    @virtualworldsbyloff 19 дней назад

    Interesting, I use SL a lot but something that achieved this in 1995, WOWWW, Visionary

  • @Autisynth
    @Autisynth 21 день назад

    right? why can’t they just be flipping Minecraft villagers or some crap.

  • @Swamp_Hound
    @Swamp_Hound 21 день назад

    This has been something ive been meaning to watch/listen to forever, really well done. Thanks so muxh for all the hard work you put into it

  • @gael44444
    @gael44444 21 день назад

    Amazing video!!! Just btw, Judith Butler uses they/them😊

  • @targetkiller4927
    @targetkiller4927 21 день назад

    Tbh, its cus good guy ones are hard to find

  • @jazzdirt
    @jazzdirt 22 дня назад

    31 (3 years ago) you youngster... I'm 47, also spend some time in VRChat sometimes... Which leaves me with one question... If 31 is ancient in VRC.. What does that make me?

  • @PILMAN
    @PILMAN 24 дня назад

    I was on active worlds from the mid 90s to very early 2000s. I went by PILMAN and my brother was Blaine. We ran the world Flood which was based on a Pokemon RPG. Lots of fond memories.

  • @eptitranxisticementionscers
    @eptitranxisticementionscers 28 дней назад

    THE DEMON OF BABYLON DISGUISES HIMSELF WITH THE COAT OF THE RIGHTEOUS

  • @Youllou
    @Youllou Месяц назад

    It has been a rough 4 years of me trying to understand what I wanted to do with my gender. I know for sure since 4 years that I'm not of the gender I was assigned at birth. But, because I never really felt disphoria I always felt like I wasnt fully trans or that I dont have the right to be trans. Hearing you validate the fact that trans identity doesnt limits to disphoria is a bless. Thats an amazing video and is still so valid 3 years later

  • @sethreign8103
    @sethreign8103 Месяц назад

    This won't age well within the next decade 🤣

  • @pinklightninggacha
    @pinklightninggacha Месяц назад

    Transgenders use anime girl avatars in vrchat too I know that cause I do

  • @marcel_one_
    @marcel_one_ Месяц назад

    An pretty affordable option for full body tracking is SlimeVR. Open source to build Yourself and also buyable from slime directly.

  • @3333218
    @3333218 Месяц назад

    Cis Male here. I've always used girly and womanly avatars in videogames, even as a child. Ever since I was given the option to pick Chun Li, in Street Fighter. I'm repusled by the notion of "I want to look at what I'm attracted to", personally, as I'm Demisexual and my gaze at feminine characters isn't sexualized. For instance, I find sexualized fanservice to be irritating, annoying and a bit disgusting. In virtual worlds I tend to feel more comfortable whenever I'm playing as a girl or woman Avatar. And ever since first playing Phantasy Star 1, I tend to use "Alis" as a nickname in games. Alis being the main girl protagonist of the game. I find myself using feminine avatar portraits all the time as well, for similar reasons. In meatspace, I'm not very manly. I'm also autistic. I'm mostly myself when I'm cute around friends who let me be cute, although being cute all the time is equally tiring, and I feel judged whenever I'm forced to be either cute or uncute to be perceived as truthful. It seems people won't accept that I can be both. Growing up with toxic masculinity means I was also forced to pick up some nasty social habits, accordingly. And some of those are very hard to get rid of. My autism, together with my social inexperience, makes it hard and tiresome to present myself to others in a way that correctly sets up their expectations of who I am and therefore who they'll allow and expect me to be. I often exaggerate or miscalculate my measurements of how to present as myself to others. I'm very interested in trying VRChar after watching this. If only I had the means to do so. It seems like the kind of place where I'd be able to discover more about myself and my identity without the concerns of how people will perceive me or having to fit within a certain box in front of others to be allowed to behave the way I'm most comfortable most of the time, even if that excludes behaving like other expressions of myself that don't quite fit those boxes all of the time.

    • @NatalieRath
      @NatalieRath 29 дней назад

      Happy for ya

    • @3333218
      @3333218 29 дней назад

      @@NatalieRath Thank you! 🥹🥰

  • @BryerTheKing1
    @BryerTheKing1 Месяц назад

    I'll never understand it...

  • @SanyaBane
    @SanyaBane Месяц назад

    You say MMO avatar is not the same as VRChat avatar. But it's same for me 🤔

  • @SanyaBane
    @SanyaBane Месяц назад

    >>"why anime girls?" >>moves >>Megumin figure behind on the shelf

  • @ImpalerVR
    @ImpalerVR Месяц назад

    Honestly, the one time I tried VRchat, I picked an anime girl avatar because all the other default option looked stupid and this is what I've seen most people wear in this game so why not. Kind of weird when some french guy said to me "hey, woman", despite my voice.

  • @Jakepearl13
    @Jakepearl13 Месяц назад

    I may not be an anime girl myself (I’m a robot fox with arm blades in vrc) but I respect those who are.

  • @MyrddinREmrys
    @MyrddinREmrys Месяц назад

    cofmeta (Metatropolis) has some fun things still.. I suggest Destinations and Rest Area1 and the micro-grid area near gz. Destinations is at .. 86.71N 75.93W 2.13a 5 It would be really neat to see AW rise again with whatever could be done to enhance and improve on it without any further losses of the past.!

  • @samueljaworski5737
    @samueljaworski5737 Месяц назад

    I remember guessing object names and just trying anything .rwx. even as a 10 year old I downloaded a 3D modeling tool and built my own objects

  • @livebyhonor
    @livebyhonor 2 месяца назад

    IMHO it has nothing to do with transgender but rather "everyone finds the female body more pleasing" men, women, the people that say they aren't attracted to women even find the female form more appealing than the male body

  • @frogzet502
    @frogzet502 2 месяца назад

    I swear if im in a normal sized avatar that i base off of my own Height im more of myself but as soon as i make myself smaller im straight up a child

  • @dronesama949
    @dronesama949 2 месяца назад

    I'm so glad I had a drink before that mindf*ck

  • @NezumiiroGray
    @NezumiiroGray 2 месяца назад

    Everytime i see tupper i just think "thats cirno from touhou" and then someone is like no thats tupper lol

  • @unaalimana6161
    @unaalimana6161 3 месяца назад

    In real life I am Luka Adrian Capurro, nice to meet you. Within VRchat I am Princess Twilight Sparkle (or Twily for short.) 🗿

  • @lunaraurora8308
    @lunaraurora8308 3 месяца назад

    _Me, a woman, using anime boy avatars to experience the opposite_ (Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail avatars cause they tend to be really good quiality)

  • @SCDarkZide
    @SCDarkZide 3 месяца назад

    Just as a sidenote from a VR-outside, it is really heartwarming to see how much more expressive you become once you use your VRchat avatar. It may be in part due to your arm gestures being easier to see due to the different body proportions, but I don't think it's just that. Either way, esapecially from Chapter 3 onwards it really drives home the point that virtual worlds are truly meaningful to you as you just seem to communicate in such an immersed and natural manner. I keep bouncing around the idea of building a SlimeVR set of full body sensors and you only make it look so much more appealing. Also, the rage expressed towards your English Degree was hilarious.

  • @shmoopyroo2650
    @shmoopyroo2650 3 месяца назад

    im non-binary and realized i was that when people called me they while i was in an alphonse elric avatar and i felt good hearing that and this was after years of feeling confused and ig not realizing non-binary was a option? i didnt feel like a girl or a boy and didnt have the vocabulary to express and explain it. that was when i was 17 and im now 21, im out and have an accepting and loving family so im quite fortunate and so grateful for my situation. VRchat has helped me alot with that, its help me meet some amazing people who are much better then any friend ive ever had before, i understand myself on a much deeper level and i can be myself without fear of being judged or bullied for just being me. of course ive experienced hate there but thats to be expected and a reminded that VR isnt a complete escape. i want to help my sister who is trans to play VRC and help her experience more gender euphoria

  • @loool_bruh519
    @loool_bruh519 3 месяца назад

    This was Runescape for me hahaha

  • @Exocrotic-yn2ck
    @Exocrotic-yn2ck 3 месяца назад

    Thanks god i am not like this. My avatar is an irl male with a fez hat and a beard dressed in 19 century clothes

  • @lynx873
    @lynx873 3 месяца назад

    I use original avatar from a any different games like Pokemon i use red and serena or ash and may sometime Dragon ball i use goku, trunks and android 21 Fortnite i use so many characters like black knight, midas and ruby. Different avatars for different anime and game

  • @jigzyonline2
    @jigzyonline2 3 месяца назад

    Wtf is trans rights. We are doomed.

  • @ltankhsd
    @ltankhsd 3 месяца назад

    Degeneracy.

    • @gael44444
      @gael44444 21 день назад

      Go read your bible

    • @ltankhsd
      @ltankhsd 21 день назад

      @@gael44444 Yeah, you sure got me there.

  • @thomaseubank1503
    @thomaseubank1503 3 месяца назад

    17:57 Atlantis! Man it has been so long! Now you have shown my favorite two worlds, Mars and Atlantis. My parents played this and sometimes I would hop on or my friend, cousin, or sibling would play and we would get so lost. I remember a weird thing on mars that was like a levitating people mover or something.

  • @tapewerm6716
    @tapewerm6716 3 месяца назад

    Because they don't want any normies to take part, period. It's like walking into the wrong bar or restaurant and getting "the look" from the regulars. It's far from inclusive and diverse. Quite the opposite, actually.

  • @curcapsicum
    @curcapsicum 3 месяца назад

    "Because I wanna be cute motherfucker" Literally insanely accurate for something a cute egirl avatar would say in vrc.

  • @EricAshAdam
    @EricAshAdam 3 месяца назад

    i left SecondLife a few years before just getting started in AW in 2019-2020 and left a few weeks later. My shitty laptop couldn't run SL. Was a little awkward learning to build stuff. I ended up in Twinity and stayed there for a while. Ishould go back and check on my stuff.

  • @Minteal-_-
    @Minteal-_- 4 месяца назад

    Well, this aged like milk.

    • @mr30u79
      @mr30u79 2 месяца назад

      No it hasn't lol.

    • @Minteal-_-
      @Minteal-_- 2 месяца назад

      @@mr30u79 Yes it has lol.

    • @mr30u79
      @mr30u79 2 месяца назад

      @@Minteal-_- So you have a full dive vr headset then? This is groundbreaking

    • @Minteal-_-
      @Minteal-_- 2 месяца назад

      @@mr30u79 I thought you’d reply with the same comment again, so I thought we could go in a loop

    • @Mahoromatic
      @Mahoromatic Месяц назад

      ​@@mr30u79This video doesn't account for the rise of AI, which is what will ultimately allow for FDVR

  • @trevorwilliams3501
    @trevorwilliams3501 4 месяца назад

    Disagree with a number of things said. Not going to write an essay. Just want it to be known there is disagreement since nobody else seems to be speaking up in the comments. Some (not all) positions taken in this video are flawed. Some things are ignored with a simple "I'm not speaking about everyone". Someone's going to ask for specifics, so I'll give one example pre-emptively. Male and female are not a matter of personal internal measures as suggested around 37:55 minutes. They're biological facts. They're not subjective.

    • @LMV123
      @LMV123 3 месяца назад

      Elaborate

    • @trevorwilliams3501
      @trevorwilliams3501 3 месяца назад

      You can argue "man" and "woman" are social constructs - even though I'd argue against that too - because these terms only describe humans but "male" and "female" are observed across species. There's no such thing as a man bear or woman bear, but bears and every other animal are male or female. If you point, as someone did, to some fish somewhere that changes sexes all the time, it makes actual, natural physical changes. It doesn't have cosmetic surgery, take medications, or dive into virtual reality. Also, it's still capable of natural sexual reproduction as the sex it changes to after it changes. It's not female with male anatomy (or a facsimile of female anatomy). It's female with actual female anatomy. Beyond that, if you narrow the discussion back down to just humans, no matter how someone identifies, if they want to reproduce, sex has to be acknowledged. Identify however you want, but if you're a male (even if you "identify as female" or nonbinary) and want to have children, you have to find a female partner (even if she "identifies as male" or nonbinary). The identifies don't mean anything in this. Even if silently, they have to acknowledge sex is a fact.@@LMV123

  • @Gonebyebye888
    @Gonebyebye888 4 месяца назад

    "colors dont have a gender" German enters the chat

  • @MadDogRyan
    @MadDogRyan 4 месяца назад

    Yeah BCI have come a long way 2 years after this video came out, the boom in AI and BCI development has been way faster than I could have imagined, Full dive is looking more and more possible every day

  • @ShinNouzenn
    @ShinNouzenn 4 месяца назад

    Its like creating artificial lucid dream

  • @comradeScallion
    @comradeScallion 4 месяца назад

    Miss ur channel 😪

  • @Evan345gdf
    @Evan345gdf 4 месяца назад

    Really great to see a leftist talk about men’s issues! Especially without needing to justify it in relation to women’s issues which often ends up undermining and downplaying the struggles men do go through. The left needs to follow your example and show more care towards men in ways other than shallow performance measures. Well done!