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Actually, yes.

Outside of my regular group of friends, I've met people who were regulars within AltSpaceVR which has now closed. They've now shifted to Horizon and avoid VRChat which is full of kids or people pretending to be a mouse in a race car.

Horizon has given me the ability to make friends from other parts of the country and the world. People that are actual friends, not just people I talk to online.

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I do think Horizon would fare better with the same tech (features/capabilities) but a different look to it. I've hung out in it a bit and certain spaces kind of evoke the old feeling back when I was in college and hanging out at an apartment or around a campfire and just quietly listening or chatting with other people bullshitting with each other. And I also got to go to a 'club' where people were dancing around a DJ another time.

I'm a bit too old to feel comfortable doing that in person anymore. So it was nice to have that feeling again, as fleeting as it was.

Too bad it has to be in an environment that looks like it came out of the PS1 era with the blandest art direction possible.

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