DISCORD as a Text Chat solution.
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KungFury
Let avatars link their Discord profile if they wish to be contacted or chat in real time via text .On click to be prompted with the direct chat window with that avatar on discord so you can leave messages or chat real time while in VRCHAT desktop mode .
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Tupper - VRChat Head of Community
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Closing due to age, please make a new post if it is still relevant.
PhaxeNor
Just to update, Discord Gamebridge was discontinued back in March. They are now focusing on Rich-Presence
Would still be awesome to have Rich-Precense
Chdata
Being able to link your discord has the benefit of you being able to actually keep in touch with friends out of VRChat. People can just disappear from VRChat as it is now, unless you verbally trade Discord IDs.
Zarniwoop
Going further with this, I think Discord integration would be perfect for voice calls inside VRchat. It's been talked about before having voice calls instead of, or as an alternative to text PMs between users.
To be able to voice call a user you first need to connect your VRC account with your discord account and be on the VRC discord and the receiver obviously needs to do the same. When a call is established everyone elses voice dims and you see a hologram of the other users avatar in front of you at all times. The voice call would go through discord.
Kouki Elska
I honestly think it's just best that they implement an in-game public chat for worlds, because I think if they only implemented a way to text-chat by private messaging someone within the same room, it would leave conversations in the online world exclusive from other people in the same public world.
Plus, text-chat users probably know the frustration of not being able to talk to groups of people immediately in-world, whether from being ignored, the person not using Discord, or the person not understanding what you want.
I think it wouldn't help with participating in group activities either, especially if they're actively doing stuff like moving around, since everyone is likely to be ignoring Discord if they have to alt-tab or otherwise put any effort to see it.
That is the thing in VRChat, it's worlds where everyone in the area is included in everything happening immediately in that world, and this could make the community seem more anti-social than it really is, if the only option to text-type is in private.
tupper
There's actually several integrations that you could tie into Discord from VRChat.
Gamebridge: https://discordapp.com/gamebridge
Rich Presence (less work, more interesting features): https://discordapp.com/rich-presence
Rich Presence in particular offers a lot of cool ideas. You could join on someone in a world and launch VRChat directly to that world, or invite someone to a world from Discord if they're offline.
MehStrongBadMeh
I guess I would like this solution more if there was an easier way to use Discord in VR.