VRUnderground

Major Progress, I have The Castle venue fully setup in VRU Nexus now. World entirely built in blender with no need for Unity outside of technical things for adding assets ect. We also have some really insane arcade games being worked on that are literally like Indie games in VRC.

I want to tinfoil hat for a moment and just point out a potential scenario that should at least be interesting regarding the anti-AI attack on VRChat. This is how I saw things play out. First off, anti-AI is well known and documented to be a heavily astroturfed movement. Here is what I saw play out. - Cookie clicker world was doing too well and was too high quality. This ruffled some feathers. Multiple times people began showing the Patreon and talking about it with a concerned tone. I remember clearly seeing a lot of concern over how well the world is doing financially. - I remember A content creator who often makes videos suddenly becoming super concerned. it was like 0-100. Within a span of a few days they went from maybe mentioning AI once in awhile with a concerned tone to. "VRCHAT IS BEING KILLED BY AI" - DOOM ETERNAL MUSIC!!!!!!!!!! I wont mention the name but you know who I am talking about. If you look at all previous videos they have made its been mostly chill thought provoking toned vibes. Suddenly "VRChat is being fucking killed bro trust me"... And honestly its weird when you look at their content then see the tone of this video out of nowhere. First of all VRChat is not being killed by AI, complete bullshit, if anything VRChat is more resilient to AI than most of the rest of the game industry. Mainly because the games main attraction is other people, its a social network. In 2019-2020 I probably spent most of my time in a fucking optimized BOX world than actually worlds. Cut the shit, VRChat is not being killed by AI. AI has been in VRChat for years ok. I have been using it, pretty much everyone is. But this one cookie clicker world suddenly it was fucking on like Donkey kong LMAO... Mobilize the troops guys! THEY HAVE PATREONS!!!! So shortly after the concern over the cookie clicker world surfaced something changed, a lot of people, suddenly went 0-100. All at the same time. LOL Not going to lie I find that pretty suspicious. I don't want to make accusations but I watched this shit play out right in front of me. The flames got very systematically stoked. We all saw it play out. Not saying its entirely faked but holy fuck some of the brain rot that spawned all at the same time was insane. It all looked very astroturfed and fake to me personally. In a span of like 1 week and change we saw MORE CONCERN OVER A COOKIE CLICKER WORLD THAN ACTIVE PDF FILES AND FAR WORSE SHIT. We didn't even crash out this hard over age gating! LOL... The cookie clicker world rebrands to Cheese clicker world. This was a real dead give away of how astroturfed this was. They rebranded the cookie clicker world and everything based on feedback. That should have been enough right there to calm everyone down. But of course that isn't going to solve the problem. This is an astroturfed movement to bully and attack AI creators. That's the entire point of this thing. Thus they continued forward acting like "there is 1 million more cookie clicker worlds coming out every 5 fucking seconds and you should totally be concerned. This is the end of days bro trust me." The VRChat devs actually handled this the best they could, the survey probably has a like a fucking ton of fake accounts posting on it. So when the VRChat devs went over everything and did a great job being as level headed as possible they got put into a super unfair situation. I bet you they didn't even realize how fake and astroturfed the anti-AI movement is. its a very loud minority of people suffering from heavy psychosis and paid interests. Everyone knows I am right about this. The Devs did what they could to do right by the community ect. Regardless, astroturfed fake movement needs to bully people away from using AI. They need to attack and bully the devs and they will stop at nothing to cause as much pain for people using the technology as possible. They would gladly kill the game if it meant stopping or slowing AI progress. Keep that in mind. When you join their side you on the side of a group who would absolutely love to destroy the game to meet their demands. This is war people, they want to kill our home over this. Attacking the Steam charts and shit that was a move that is an attempt to tank the game overall. That's not a friendly protest, that is an attempt to harm the platform overall. I know for a fact its not all fake, a lot of people feeling the pinch. I know anti-AI people personally and respect many of them. But its obvious when their are snakes in the grass stoking the flames. I think the VRChat devs got sucked into this bullshit and they got unfairly bullied. Anyway, ill go ahead and leave this here. This is my 2 cents. Take it or leave it.

I am going to cool down, slow my posting and then starting tomorrow or they day after begin positive posts about progress on things and updates with the discord. VRU Nexus work footage and the future of mega world creation.

Over the weekend I want to talk to some people about maybe helping setup the VRU discord to help be a safe space for VRChat and AI related content creation. I am not super amazing at discord management So I will need some help on this front. Over the weekend ill be on.

I feel like our community is being attacked by anti AI people and they even went as far as to directly bully our devs and shit on the game on steam. They attacked our home. I feel like maybe a line was crossed this time. Anyone else feel that? If you are THAT upset about AI maybe go away. Make another platform or something. Don't drag us all into your temper tantrum. Its pretty tiresome.

Might need to post positive reviews of VRChat to counteract the mob. :/

I feel like we need more sanity lately. It was mentioned that I should talk more about how to utilize AI effectively in the current day and age. I am open to giving advice and being helpful. AI is an amazing tool and can be used to great effect with VRChat world and avatar creation. Most of the top models right now can build any script or shader you need in minutes and have it work exactly how you need. Using AI to optimize avatars is another avenue that is absolutely amazing. This is especially true if you utilize the blender MCP. I have not played with it enough yet but I may give it a try and have Astra create a proper fallback avatar for my current mesh.

This seems pretty fair. I have been using AI extensively since around late 2022. Nobody had an issue back then. I have always prided myself on being at the cutting edge of technology. Many people I know have enjoyed AI for years, even complimented my work and gone to lobbies I helped create with no issue. Only recently has this become an issue which I find silly. I am considering to use the human made label because to say I am a machine is dehumanizing. Just because I use certain tools does not make the work I do less human. This is not about human authorship, it is about bullying and control. I will not allow myself to be bullied, I am not a machine. My creations have always come from me regardless of the tools I use. This is a statement to those who wish to dehumanize others. I will stand in defiance of dehumanization tactics. Just because certain tools have been used does not make someone's work less human. It is possible the "Human made" label should be "AI was not directly used" label which would alleviate this situation for me personally as I have directly used AI for years and will continue to do so. However, to claim the things I make are not human created feels wrong. The current iteration of the Nexus fully utilizes all of the latest and greatest technology to such an extent that it is transformative to world creation process in general. I have created tools that allow world creation to be done outside of Unity using a blender plugin entirely. This offers a completely new way to build worlds in VRChat. It is now possible for others to build entire worlds within my world using provided infrastructure and do it live in an open lobby filled with players. This is a really awesome feature! Over the next month this will become more public and it will show what is possible when applying the absolute cutting edge of tools to the best of my human ability. I am going to be ramping up on a new mega world experience and I am already in talks with various communities. I believe this will be an amazing experience for many.

The Castle venue is now a location in the Nexus but it will need a bit of work done. Vertex lighting is fantastic in many ways but requires a bit of attention to get right. I am making far better use of GPU instancing vs my previous versions of this world as well since it is so streamlined now. Later today I will be bringing a lot more props and decorations into the scene as well. It's pretty interesting how much of a performance jump this method has created. Mainly because in some ways it is more limited and there are stricter rules in how to do things thus it forces a lot more thought to go into how everything is built. Next month we will begin seeing a lot more activity in the Nexus for sure. I just need to get things a bit further along.

VRU Nexus Unity is not open, All I have running is #VRChat in a private lobby and Blender using my VRU Nexus plugin. - I built a single ceiling support beam then instance it as a GPU instanced object. - GPU instanced objects are properly stored as a single object in text data to save space. - I duplicate the beam over the ceiling adding detail to the scene. - I baked Vertex lighting so the beams are correctly lit. I go to my private VRChat lobby. reload the scene for all players in the lobby. We see my changes live without having to reload the world. This works for multiplayer as well. If multiple people were in the lobby they would all see this change at the same time. Again UNITY IS NOT OPEN ON MY PC DURING THIS VIDEO.