Open Beta

WIthin the new avatar menu, it becomes impossible to change fallbacks, whether it's a public/legacy avatar on the Explore tab, or if it's a Fallback avatar uploaded by you.

I can't wait!

Open an instance of https://vrchat.com/home/world/wrld_778e1f0e-7209-406a-ab45-e97cdd5aa267/info Look at the spot in the screenshot. There is a mystery collider, but only on open beta. If you click this, you sit sideways, and cannot leave the station without respawning. Is this related to the REFERENCE CUBE? I'm not sure. This occurs even if I start vrchat without touching the inventory menu, so... if so that's going to be a bit disruptive to testing open beta. Output log: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/81kbq65109buvuo53mpzf/output_log_2025-06-12_19-30-28.zip?rlkey=yvdv03vm5g6ccj53bek00c6wy&st=5bmm7nze&dl=0

As VRChat has just introduced its item system, it may still be trying to find its footing and determine what to and not to allow, and how to provide, items going forward. As part of this, I suggest VRChat add the ability for items to be marked as "player only". What this means is: Player-Only Items are only visible to their owner, regardless of any safety settings. Player-Only Items may access an additional set of properties of their owner, via Udon & Soba, which may not be available with "public" items. Player-Only Items may attach themselves to the player HUD, provide additional utility, interact with the VRC Camera, etc. via Udon & Soba, which most certainly would not be available to normal items. Player-Only Items cannot interact with other players. The intent of these features would allow VRChat, and potentially users in the event of UGC, to provide new "utility" items, similar to the VRChat camera or VRC Player Mirror, which aim to enhance the functionality of the VRChat client. Existing systems, such as the camera and mirror, could even theoretically be migrated to such an improved system, providing a uniform way of spawning objects, whether or not they are local to the spawning user. Other possible enhancements could be to provide a separate subsection, similar to the "Exclusive" item sections in Stickers & Emoji, for "My Tools", with a subheading of "Visible only to you", where these Player-Only Items would be stored.

The new "Bundles and packs" feature is not cool. I don't really care if they are meant to be a path towards real money gambling for VRChat or not, it is close enough of a feature that I will be super uncomfortable with even talking about the game to my friends. I am a long time vrc+ subscriber because I love this game and community, but anything even resebling lootboxes are unethical and not cool. this kind of gambling only targets people who struggle with it, not the people who can afford it.

As part of the new item system, and as a companion for Add items & Item Interactions to Shield Levels¹ and Add option for "Allow Item Interactions from" Permissions² it is recommendable that culling options, similar to avatars, are added to the Quick Menu for improved safety and performance. These options should ideally include: Limit nearest number of items to [x] Show items within [x] meters Always show friends' items [boolean] This would allow users to self manage their own experiences with items beyond safety, ensuring that items are not unnecessarily shown and allowing them to have minimal performance impact in edge cases where numerous items are spawned. — https://feedback.vrchat.com/open-beta/p/items-add-items-item-interactions-to-shield-levels https://feedback.vrchat.com/open-beta/p/items-add-option-for-allow-item-interactions-from-permissions

As part of the new item system, it would be highly advisable to add contact senders and receivers to items. This will enhance immersion and interactivity with items, and better align them with existing systems. For example: If an avatar contact receiver responds to the tag "projectile", and a projectile from an item sends this tag, the avatar will appropriately respond and trigger this interaction. If an item, lets say a torch, responds to the tag "fire", a particle system on an avatar which sends "fire" could light the torch As you can see, adding contacts, even to VRChat's own items, irregardless of UGC, would make items more immersive, more interactive, and more functional.

With the new items system, it would be highly advisable to add the ability to manage which items are shown on a player trust basis using the existing shield system. By including items as part of the shield system, under "Items" similar to drones, this can allow players to see items from players they can trust, or even limit item visibility to only friends if they so choose. Additionally, adding "Item Interactions" to shield settings would additionally allow players to manage whether or not they receive events from items (such as through contacts¹) regardless of whether or not the item is shown. This would allow players to opt into seeing items without worrying about unwanted interactions from them. The latter option would be specifically for receiving events. As an alternative to adding the latter to the shield system, it could in theory be added similarly to avatar contacts, as an item in the quick menu. This would increase the safety of the item system as a whole, whilst paving a pathway for safe management and control of user-created items if they are to ever enter into production (TBD). — https://feedback.vrchat.com/open-beta/p/items-add-contacts-to-items

Similar to PhysBones & Contacts, please provide the option to set the interactive permissions of items in the new Item system on a per-spawned item basis. I.E Anyone: Anyone can grab and interact with your item Only Friends: Only friends can interact with your item Only You: Only you can interact with your item This would include the ability to grab said item. A default setting would be added to the Quick Menu, which designates an item's default permissions when spawned from the action menu. When spawned from the inventory menu, there would be an option… Provided beneath the spawn button, as either similar to the "Avatar Allowed to Interact" element, a radio control, or dropdown; or… As 3 separate buttons labeled "Spawn for Everyone", "Spawn for my Friends", & "Spawn for Just Me" Likewise, a similar control would exist in the item management menu (shown when highlighting an item with the quick menu open and selecting it.)

As part of the recently introduced Item system, there stems the possibility of future items, whether VRChat made or not, containing cameras. Similar to the VRC Camera, cameras rendering networked players on any item should present themselves as a lens, identical to how the lens on the VRC Camera currently presents itself, regardless of item visibility, to maintain user privacy and safety when items are in use.