Feature Requests

Will it be possible to see a list of users in the instance before joining it? For example the ones you're invited to and the public instances as well? It could be as a drop-down list when viewing the instance in the menu before joining it.

Chatbox currently gets disabled when entering a silent area in a world (disabled voice chat). World creators should be able to flag voice chat and the chatbox separately incase voice chat is unwanted but chatbox is wanted.

Instead of making Cloning for everyone, maybe an avatar creator or someone using an avatar can set the avatar for friend cloning only

https://docs.unity3d.com/2022.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Graphics.CopyTexture.html Graphics.CopyTexture is one of the few ways that Unity allows you to draw to Cubemaps without the use of a Custom Render Texture. It also allows direct access to mip levels, allowing world creators to construct Custom Reflection Probe shaders with correct metallic and diffuse mips. Third, CopyTexture can be placed anywhere in the render chain similar to Blit, ie. after an individual camera renders, vs a Custom Render Textures that only update at the start of the frame. This also makes handling Texture Arrays and texture cropping far easier.

Surveys are incredibly useful for gathering information on user experiences. There have been some discussions about ways to let users give feedback to world creators, but what if VRChat provided global surveys querying feedback on various user preferences when it comes to worlds, avatars, controls, and more instead? I'm sure this type of information would be useful to VRChat but it would also be incredibly useful for creators, students, and researchers if everyone were granted access to view the results. VRChat relies on user created content, so giving world and avatar creators ways to view survey results based on feedback beyond their immediate communities will help us tailor our content directly to the average player's preferences. This could also help create some uniformity across world experiences, and help developers create more relevant tools to assist creators. Surveys could include hardware and controller questions to help creators understand specific needs and preferences based on those factors. One survey could query questions about per-world created UI design, how they prefer to open in-world menus, how much they like or dislike seeing floating menus and dialogue in the world, etc. Another survey could feature preferences when it comes to post-processing, with questions confirming how familiar they are with the various features of it, what effects they like, what effects they don't like, how strong things like bloom or noise can be before becoming detrimental to the world... Other surveys could query avatar preferences such as clothing, audio link, toys/gimmicks, etc... Perhaps eventually users could submit their own surveys they'd like to have queried based on a set of guidelines that one of the VRChat teams could review, requiring x-amount of surveys completed by the user first to ensure to an extent that the questions haven't already been covered by a different survey. Incentives could possibly include limited time access to VRC+ exclusive features, like x+ hours/uses of stickers or custom emojis, or a badge that evolves like the VRC+ Gifts depending on how many surveys a user has completed. To keep information and results relevant, perhaps answers could expire after x-amount of months, allowing users to re-answer the surveys to account for potential hardware changes or new features and to continue increasing their badge count over time without needing more and more surveys. If other methods of giving users ways to provide feedback directly to creators is implemented in the future - having a broad range of surveys available to cross-reference would help creators quantify positive or negative feedback before deciding whether or not to cater to it, as well as perhaps also supplement and enhance the type of feedback users give. Thoughts?

Allow people to automatically filter avatars and worlds marked with an epilepsy warning would be great for safety and creators may feel safer to go harder on effects such as lightning.

So, I am tired of trying to hunt down my friends in a world whenever I join a world with them, it'd be nice if I could request if I could teleport to their location in a world. Of course you could allow a world maker to disable this feature in order not to break parkour challenges etc.

Because of the new eye tracking features, it would be very useful if there was a float parameter that's 0 when eyes are open and 1 when the eyes are closed. This can be very useful for avatars that use more than two bones for blinking or material swaps.

It would be beneficial for us to have a social status set to “invisible,” where we would be seen as offline, and, just like the red DND status, we could only join in on others when requesting. Sometimes we need moments to ourselves, and sometimes other people don’t understand that red means “I’m busy.” Aside from also preventing services from Discord reporting that we’re in VRChat. Say we’re working on world projects, debugging, streaming, having private moments with close friends, I believe the ability to be invisible and appear as offline would help further the security and personal well being of some players. For a few of us who are introverted, some people will bug you despite being red, and it can be irritating. It’s not that we don’t care, it’s that we need to get some stuff done. I understand that there are potentially negatives to this, but I feel the positives will outweigh those by quite a bit. Invisible statuses have been seen in other messaging services in the past, such as ICQ and others. I’d ask that you consider it. If this has already been suggested, let me know, Justin “Sonicgott” Reese

Basically a feature that would add to the avatar culling system. Makes avatars switch into their impostor versions at a distance, and then at even further distance completely cull.