The digital self becomes both performer and audience in a communal release of the Dionysian id. The purpose of this project is to be used as a starting experiment for my upcoming thesis on the topic of desire and space. I really hated like I do in my physical life the idea of approaching someone and asking them on a date.
From a guy who was just going around and singing on top of his lungs to the guy who was saying some really awful and some really illegal stuff. The question is at the end β how much of that is it just part of their every-day personality?
Do they hide it, and then feel more free to express it inside vr-chat, or are they just the same outside? How much does virtual space free us? Does it change us? Coming back to topic of desire - despite the absence of the real human body, I did feel pulled toward certain avatars and people. It seems that just like wearing certain clothes, or sporting a different hairstyle, it does speak a lot about a person behind the chosen avatar!
They all confirmed that they had valuable relationships inside the virtual space, or that they believe in friendships created there. I decided to reuse an old character that I created using Gravity Sketch during my first semester. The first step was to edit it in Blender so it is as less complex and clean for the purpose of meeting the standards for vr-chat avatars:.
I recorded my time inside vr-chat using Xbox Game Bar there are other possible methods and edited the videos inside Premiere Pro :. All the glitches, all that was not working well just entertained us even more! Another point is that in vr-chat it feels more public to go on a date then in real world, and inside, many more people interacted with us and engaged in what we were doing. Usually, in physical space people try to mind their own business and are afraid to interact.
