Still no VR MMO like Ready Player One, SAO, or TOME

Facebook Horizons is coming soon

actually two VR mmos are out
store.steampowered.com/app/943150/Nostos/

Both of them are awful and proves why VR mmos shouldn't be a thing.
Besides MMOs aren't design correctly for the strain on the eyes of wearing a headset all day.

>Why would they ever develop such an expensive and risky project
Because that sort of technology has applications beyond virtual reality.

There's no point/it's too risky in investing in VR MMO when only a single digit percentage of all PC gamers own a VR rig.

this. How would you deal with all the in-game windows and stuff. Mmos are all about multiple skills, macros, micro-managing tons of shit during raids and pvp etc... How would all that translate into something bearable when put in a VR system ?

addendum: I mean, it could take some time, but we may be able to find a workaround those things

What is VRchat?

Well a VR MMO won't exist in any valuable manner until VR tech can read your thoughts and translate that into commands, and in that instance you can literally just think "use X."

You can't, it's just simply not possible for a VR mmo

It will, just not in our lifetime.

At least post the webm

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Full body dive tech with physical feeling? Not in our lifetime. Full body motion tracking MMO? Probably within the next decade.

>Full body dive tech with physical feeling? Not in our lifetime.
Technology is advancing pretty quick. I mean it could happen, we'd be like sixty-years-old, but it could happen. Just don't tell anybody you're an old timer when you're blowing dicks with a female avatar.

VR chat is very limited. Players can't interact with each other in any meaningful way outside of prop manipulation. Haptic feedback and the ability to interact with other players avatars is a necessity to reach the level of complexity present in RPO which won't be a thing for a very long time. At least not to the same scale.

At least VRchat doesn't rely on constant nostalgia-wank or bland OCs.

>Wanting to get trapped in a video game like SAO

Is this sarcasm? Because there's a lot of that in VRchat in the form of worlds and avatars designed around nostalgic games movies and memes not to mention an abundance of "bland OCs".

In VRchat you can pretend to be an anime girl or run around as a midget Knuckles talking in some weird accent and harass people.

Automatically better than any shit from Ready Player One.

small indie companies can't make mmos. We need some kind of new controller design that lets you use all fingers on multiple buttons though.

Super unlikely. First they need to figure out how it works in general. Then the technology needs to advance far enough to be affordable and compact enough so people can buy it. Then a game developer needs to figure out how to make a game out of it. The bigger the game in scope, the more complicated it gets.
But most importantly, it would probably take decades until governments, ethical commissions, etc. would allow the technology, because they first need to confirm it's totally safe to use.
That's ignoring that most countries probably don't even have the internet infrastructure to support an MMO of this scale and building that would take another decade or two.

all those stories about consciousness becoming trapped in the game network and the body becoming catatonic are precautionary tales meant to scare people from developing that kind of technology

Sure but people don't fantasize about RPO for it's lack of customizable and creative characters. They fantasize about the fully functioning interactive worlds which VR chat hasn't even scratched the surface of yet. Also if we're being rational here the only reason RPO didn't have the concepts you just mentioned is because they were branding the movie for a specific demographic. That's why you only see iconic characters with the exception of a few OCs for the main protags/antags. I f we were to extrapolate the functionality of RPOs world and give it the customization of VRCHAT it would be the best VR game in existence.

If you knew a game like SAO could come out and will trap you inside until you finish all the 100 floors would you play it?
Keep in mind if you die there you get killed irl too, and that means you can get killed by bullshit ways like traps, autistic boss attack patterns, or getting gang raped by a guild of PK's.

Funnily enough, like RPO and SAO

There is already technology out there that can translate thoughts to inputs though. It's shit, but it's been around for over a decade.

youtube.com/watch?v=fn9eBJFvSuA

I'd forfeit my body immediately, fuck this boring reality.

>windows
pop out in from of you
>stuff
what
>multiple skills
Each finger can trigger a skill
>macros
Faggot
>micro-managing tons of shit during raids
all of the above

More and more people are starting to see that as an upside though

This

By all legal rights the game would never be shut down either, it'd become a haven for trapped minds with endless support. Shutting it down would be akin to mass murder.

So what about A Township Tale?

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Question is how could they utilize the bodies of those who submit to the program? Would they harvest the organs of the volunteers and provide them to the hierarchy of society? Would scientists find a way to utilize human bodies and essentially turn them into batteries to provide a surplus of renewable energy like in the matrix?

It's somewhat cool, but for a real full-dive we need to understand our brains much better, so it's possible make more complex inputs like moving one of your fingers a little bit. And the most difficult part will be to send the output directly to our brain.
Not to ignore to sheer computational power to simulate a real world. It's really something that sounds easy on paper, but the more you think about it the more you realize just how far away we are from it.
I'll be already happy enough if I can just experience great VR porn games during my lifetime.