#CRYSTAL VR

[xxthesmittenkittenxx--2]

I created a purple crystal demon model in blender for vrchat! Was certainly a pain to make but worth it in the end. :D

[numberonebestratedstimboard]

“Ehm… my hand is getting tired.”

A stimboard of Bipple Boper for anon!!!

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[lucy-marigold]

Didn’t start out a Benrey drawing but that’s where I ended up.

[paigelts05]

The Gregory Getters [FNAF SB, Renegade AU]

https://www.deviantart.com/paigelts05/art/1064308909

Published: Jun 16, 2024

In the Renegade AU, the Tales books take place in a VR environment and nowhere else. The books were produced in-universe as sanitised lab reports of what happened in the VR environment under the guise of marketable stories.

Lots is altered and left out to push Faz Ent's narrative and discredit any attempts to uncover the filthy truth beneath the surface.

This also included the chaotic escapades of team 'Save Gregory', aka the 'Gregory Getters'. A story warped into the lab report turned tale, GGY.

After Gregory was abducted by a Faz Ent executive from where he and Cassie were hiding out in the megaplex, Cassie formed a team consisting of the only friends she had:

Rachel Collins, the athletic one with a knack for learning new technology, the granddaughter of a security guard fired during the Riot night, a date that lined up to the night after Gregory's kidnapping, and the only person other than Gregory who stuck around for her birthday party, even after it was cancelled due to the sinkhole causing an emergency evacuation of the entire raceway.

Tory Beck, a young boy with a knack for investigating mysteries. Like many of his idols, he is willing to see any story through to the end, no matter what it takes.

Elijah Bronev, the most normal kid you can imagine with a suspicious knack for using many existing proprietary systems that a random child should not be able to get their hands on. Well, normal aside from the fact that he sees all ghosts no matter how hard they hide, and he's not even possessed.

Once the dream team was assembled and decided on the team name "the Gregory Getters", Cassie knew where Gregory was being held and had a plan to get close, and it needed everyone's trust and cooperation, as she would head in first and set everything up. Everyone else was to infiltrate an hour later. Rachel took her grandpa's security badges before sneaking out of the hospital to meet up with the others at the rendezvous point, Elijah reactivated the security badges so the trio could make it into the megaplex and have the clearance to access the objective location, and Tory used maps of the megaplex to get himself, Elijah, and Rachel into the objective location: a room with headsets connected to the VR environment.

Once at the VR room, Cassie was nowhere to be found, but there was a note in her handwriting.

"I let Bill catch me on purpose. It's the only way I can get both physically close to Gregory and to a VR headset with enough backdoors to give you all these backdoors later. They are holding him in the VR environment and are using it to train him to be a killer using what some poor lady was forced to do by Faz Ent's big boss himself as training data.

I'll catch up with you in the VR environment."

So the trio took the plunge, and found themselves in the VR environment.

Cassie's character was a mysterious blonde girl in a pink sweater, Rachel's character was Crystal, Tory's character was Tony, and Elijah's character was Ellis.

Cassie decided to use the name 'Amelia' to keep both her own identity and the identity of the character that she was using a secret.

Once in the VR environment, Cassie explained the second phase of this covert operation: bring Gregory back to reality causing as little suspicion as possible in the process. That meant that they couldn't expose what Faz Ent was training Gregory to do without sufficient evidence either, as it would be taken as either a madman's ramblings or slander, and both would put unwanted eyes on them. But Cassie assured the team that they had plenty of resources: because Faz Ent's VR environment's user base is mostly techies and business majors, they had to have settings to grant themselves extra skills to do the jobs that they either were not permitted to train in, such as detective and journalist, couldn't train in, like medium, couldn't be bothered to train a business major in, like hacker and tinkerer, or couldn't be bothered to train a techie in, like businessman.

The list of possible 'Jobs' was vast, and covered almost all walks of life, from teacher to mafia godfather to mall kiosk employee, and also doubled as a shortcut for giving non-player character AIs the optimal skillets for various jobs, and even included the ability to have what Rachel referred to as a 'Sub-Job'.

It was definitely one way to make sure that this virtual world felt like an actual world and not a vertical slice of silicone valley.

It reminded Rachel of a retro game she had been binging, and she immediately set herself up with tinkerer as her primary job, and hacker as her secondary job. Tory set himself up as a journalist detective as that's what he was good at in the real world. Elijah set himself up as a hacker medium as his ability to see ghosts didn't transfer to the virtual world, and the medium's job outfit was a gaudy enable as oposed to the office clerk or factory worker business casual he expected, and picking hacker simply felt optimal.

Why the journalist job was full of abilities that drain and freeze foes in combat as oposed to actual investigatory skills was beyond what any of the four Gregory Getters were aware of.

Cassie didn't disclose her selection, or if she selected anything at all. She just said that due to the character that she was using, she already had what she needed.

All they had to do now was get Gregory to lure 'Tony' to a megaplex and get him alone. 'Crystal' and 'Ellis' were vital to this, as they'd work on 'agro management', ensuring that Gregory would take note of 'Tony's' investigation, and ensuring that the 'investigation' bore logical fruit. From there, all Tory would have to do is use the skills from his 'journalist' class to freeze Gregory so that Cassie can work whatever magic she had planned to save him from this VR environment.

With Gregory, no, GGY was more accurate, lurred to the megaplex of this VR world, Tony sacrificed his character to freeze GGY in place, and as the auto-log-out-on-death that Cassie had secretly set all of the Gregory Getters equipment with logged him out, he watched as Cassie, Rachel, and Elijah put an end to GGY.

Everyone else logged out the proper way a few minutes later, after Cassie manually logged Gregory out herself.

They succeeded in saving Gregory from the VR environment, but that was only half the extraction complete. Faz Ent was now looking for her and Gregory, and as his rescue rendered him unconscious, there wasn't much Cassie could do. So Cassie stashed the hardly conscious Gregory inside of Freddy's stomach hatch as it was the safest place to stash him; Freddy would be on stage soon, so he'd not be found for at least a while and have time to wake up and acclimate to being awake in the real world so she could safely retrieve him later. However, Freddy shut down on stage upon seeing Rachel, Tory, and Elijah fleeing the building. Cassie was then forced to flee herself, unable to retrieve Gregory due to the commotion.

She met the rest of her team empty handed at the rendezvous point, a graveyard five miles north of the megaplex, an hour later. She explained that she had to hide Gregory inside of a shut down Freddy that was preparing for a show, and that she'd have to go into hiding for a while. The gunshot graze on her leg was evidence enough that she'd made the right call.

This rescue mission and Faz Ent's hubris in attempting to recapture Gregory triggered an event that would later be dubbed "The Breach".

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If this has a good reception I might make a fic to flesh out these events more. If it has a bad reception, I'll make the fic out of spite anyway.

Also, whilst I do have a style for colouring things in the VR environment, this peice does not use that style because it was coloured before I decided on that style change that signifies the VR environment. Though if you want something diegetic, Cassie is really good with makeup and has, on several occasions, suggested dolling everyone up to look like thier VR environment counterparts in order to give the execs that worked on those projects a heart attack.

[torifloop]

i really do love vr and model painting cause i can then upload to vrchat and do things like this (top row is ToriFloop, first one is Kobold!ToriFloop) (Second row is Maki the PoolToy Manokit) (third row is a public retexture i recently published, I'm calling it LapisGold)

[angelic-stimz]

vr-la stimboard!!

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[virtualrealitynewstoday]

Pimax 創新突破：全新 Crystal Light 與 Crystal Super VR 頭顯及 Crystal 無線適配器登場

近日，Pimax 於虛擬實境技術領域內，推出了兩款全新的有線 PC VR 頭戴顯示器：Crystal Light 與 Crystal Super，進一步擴展其產品線。此外，為既有的 Crystal 用戶帶來新的無線適配器，勢必為 VR 體驗帶來更多自由與可能性。 Crystal Light：普及高端體驗 Crystal Light 主打高解析度體驗，每眼���到 2880 x 2880 像素。採用的 QLED（可選 Mini-LED）面板提供了生動的色彩與深沉的黑色。其刷新率支援 60、72、90 以及 120 Hz，滿足不同使用者的需求。該頭戴顯示器提供 58-72mm 的手動 IPD 調整，並採用固定式注視渲染技術 2.0。內建的追蹤系統（支援 Lighthouse 外部追蹤）以及 35 PPD 的玻璃非球面鏡片，提供了寬廣的視野與清晰的沉浸感。雙麥克風與 3.5mm…

[overwritexr]

[pop-blossoms]

YESSSS

TODAY MARKS THE DAY THAT I BEAT SPOOKY BEAT ON EXPERT MODE AND CRYSTALLIZED ON HARD MODE WOOOOOOO seriously, i only started playing beat saber maybe a couple weeks ago. i'm addicted and i love to see the improvement. i remember going to try spooky beat on hard and it seemed impossible. but i kept practicing and now I BEAT EXPERT MODE same with crystallized on hard, the patterns seemed sooo complex but i DID IT.

[that-vampire-loser]

The foxes and something random they need for comedy

Andrew: noise canceling headphones (annoys the hell out of wymack because he’ll be talking to andrew, assuming the music is off, and Andrew will hit pause and go “what?”)

Kevin: wii sports with exy on it (he’s constantly playing exy, even if he’s in the dorm)

Neil: trampoline (he’d love it, come on) (it’s like one of those tiny indoor ones and it annoys Andrew because neil will literally jump as they’re having a conversation) (our boy needs constant movement)

Aaron: a giant skeleton (a gag gift from andrew) (it’s prominent in his Nicky’s and Matt’s dorm) (they decorate it for every holiday) (on April fools he dresses it in a bikini and puts it in Andrew’s bed, with a note even this is hotter than neil) (andrew Neil and Kevin hold it hostage for weeks until Aaron’s group comes begging for it)

Nicky: a nerf gun (he terrorizes everyone with it) (however, he was not prepared when aaron and andrew come back from Walmart one day with two of their own) (they get nerf guns banned from Fox tower)

Dan: an airhorn (she uses it to get the foxes attention during practice) (she gets wymack one for his birthday)

Matt: vr headset (he loves it so much) (he’s constantly bumping into things around the dorm) (aaron and nicky are just annoyed but can ignore it, until Matt trips and falls on aaron, then they hide out in Andrew’s dorm)

Allison: crystals (she’s a witch tell me im wrong) (she puts them everywhere—Renee’s pockets, all over the dorm and the locker room, she gives one to neil, who puts it in Andrew’s car) (andrew likes it) (she and andrew go crystal shopping together) (also you can’t tell me andrew doesn’t like rocks that’s just something i see him enjoying. He doesn’t necessarily believe that they do anything, but if they do what’s the harm) (anyway, they bond and it makes Renee happy)

Renee: a bicycle (she rides it everywhere) (the girls get a little basket for it)

Those last two were more sweet than funny but still

[mattapparentlystumbltourneys]

Virtual Character Tourney - Round 5 - Bracket B Finals

Propaganda below (May contain spoilers!)

Dr. Coomer propaganda:

Dr. Coomer is the EMBODIMENT of a old and broken AI. Silly man, just a very old guy who has a crisis over realizing that he's in a game because he went out of bounds. He runs into the same trap/enemy constantly because of one area at the beginning of the game, explodes anything with the word explosive on it, cannot stop greeting the player, recites the entirety of the 2012 Wikipedia article for chairs because was was sitting in one, and is basically a permanent tutorial npc. Someone fix this man's code please.

he is so sentient it hurts

he's a broken tutorial npc who becomes aware that he's trapped in a game and repeatedly tries to escape. he wanted to be a boxer instead of a scientist. he wants to live in super punch out for the super nintendo entertainment system but instead he's stuck in half life. you wouldn't leave him in half life, gordon? fucking half life? let him ou-- HELLO, GORDON!

Ultraman X propaganda:

X canonically lost his physical form and lives in Daiichi's phone. His presence caused Daiichi's phone to turn gold, instead of the standard-issue silver the rest of XIO's employees have. It's possible for XIO's scientists to send powerups to X because he lives on Daiichi's phone. There's also a couple episodes where X gets trapped in cyberspace and Dr. Gourman and friends have to design something for Daiichi to help him escape. (Dr. Gourman is the first to notice Daiichi is secretly Ultraman X. Also in the crossover movie, Daiichi and X got separated and X couldn't live on Daiichi's phone so he jumped to the nearest computer (which belonged to Naomi from Ultraman Orb, air date 2016) and began pulling up photos of Daiichi in a "Have You Seen This Nerd?" sort of way. The enemy goons saw Naomi and her cryptid hunting gang putting up missing posters for Daiichi and tore them down bc they had him captured at their crystal witch's base, a creepy haunted house. Eventually when Daiichi and X reunited as man and lil alien on his phone, they were so happy they ignored everyone else in the room. They were grateful enough to fight alongside Naomi's sad space cowboy, Kurenai Gai, in battle.

He's used the phone's vibration function a few times to try and get people's attention, and he doesn't like being turned face-down because he can't see. In order to take on a physical form he has to essentially fuse with his human partner Daichi. (also they get a power up form after Daichi nearly Dies to save him and it's rainbow themed.) While X is very chatty and enjoys talking with his partner, he's often a formless voice while they're fused.The exception being one occasion where he looks like an entire network. tldr this alien is gay he is very polite and deserves your vote.

[prokopetz]

hey! I'm getting back into Tumblr and I only remember your Tumbls and one other so I'm interested to hear who you would suggest following for fun content. Nerdy, funny, any one you like seeing on your dashboard!

Sure thing. I actually don’t follow that many blogs on Tumblr – there’s usually fewer than a hundred active entries on my “Following” list at any given time – and a lot of them are people who wouldn’t appreciate the extra attention, but I have a few I can plug.

Tabletop RPG creators

There are surprisingly few RPG creators on Tumblr, at least openly – though I'm sure there are many more who prefer to keep their Tumblr identities separate from their work! Those whom I follow include:

@jennamoran – Dr. Moran likely needs little introduction for most who follow this blog; creator of Nobilis, Glitch, and Chuubo’s Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine.

@jdragsky – Founder of Possum Creek Games, and creator of Sleepaway, Wanderhome, and the forthcoming Yazeba’s Bed and Breakfast.

@nekoewen – Creator of a truly vast number of smaller games, most notably the West End Games Ghostbusters retroclone Spooktacular, and also 100% to blame for my obsession with d66 tables.

@open-sketchbook – Author of many of my favourite games, including Double or Nothing, Unbelievable Macho Bullshit, and their current magnum opus, Flying Circus.

@orbitaldropkick – Putting them under tabletop RPGs may be burying the lede, as they’re also the author of Kill Six Billion Demons, but we know what we’re here for. Lead designer of Lancer.

Artists

These are mostly (but not exclusively) folks I’ve worked with in the past on my own tabletop RPG projects; many currently accept commissions if you’ve got a project of your own the works:

@artbyprophet – Contributing artist for Costume Fairy Adventures.

@artkaninchenbau – Contributor to Cerebos: The Crystal City and cover artist for Gaming with Godot.

@catbatart – A frequent contributor to various tabletop RPGs, including a forthcoming project under my own banner that I’m not ready to discuss just yet.

@dizzimitzi – Contributing artist for Costume Fairy Adventures.

@fungii – Contributing artist for Costume Fairy Adventures.

@mimimariet – Contributing artist for Costume Fairy Adventures.

@mooncalfe-art – If you’re into older tabletop RPGs, you may know her as one of the original artists for Exalted; otherwise, her graphic novels like Shadoweyes and Wet Moon are probably more familiar.

@pencilbrony – Cover artist and graphic designer for the forthcoming Space Gerbils [working title].

@theshitpostcalligrapher – Their main thing on Tumblr is (as the name suggests) calligraphic renderings of trending shitposts, though their full repertoire is much broader. Cover artist for To Serve.

@tredlocity – Creator of the webcomic Val and Isaac and occasional tabletop RPG artist, though I haven’t worked with them personally.

Video Games

Some video game creator blogs, some blogs about video games:

@hollowtones – A streamer who’s participated in several popular projects, including Half-Life VR but the AI Is Self-Aware, though on Tumblr she’s probably better known for a certain post about frogs.

@orteil42 – Creator of Cookie Clicker. If you’re familiar with that game’s sense of humour, you know what to expect here.

@ponett – Creator of the forthcoming Super Lesbian Animal RPG.

@snapscube – A voice actor best known for “abridged” versions of popular video game cutscenes. You know the “Dr. Eggman pissing on the moon” meme? That’s from their podcast.

@suppermariobroth – Oddball and often deeply obscure trivia about Super Mario games, as well as related franchises.

Other

@seatsafetyswitch – Frequently surrealist microfiction, with a strange preoccupation with shitty old cars.

[takiki16]

Hey so I am starting to get into Jupiter Ascending fandom (a couple years late but what can I say). I was thinking of writing a fic. Do you have any resources for JA extra information?

Thanks in advance. Also I am loving your fic (it's how I started getting into the fandom lololol). can't wait to reread!!!

HOOOOOOO BOY!!!!

I'm paging @bemusedlybespectacled, @gallifreyburning, @vr-trakowski, @sorrelchestnut, @florentinequill, @fuckyeahjupiterascending, @vrabia, and honestly ANYONE ELSE who wants to chime in here, bc HOOOOOOO BOY!

(I made that sweet puppy in fucking 2015 on my dying laptop in the travel study dorm in DC, JUPITER ASCENDING HOW I LOVE THEE)

The eternal fucking tragedy of Jupiter Ascending is that the wider world doesn't love it like we do. Does it have every single thing that turns my crank, id-wise? Sure! Does it have gorgeous over-the-top sequined costumes and extravagant set pieces that remind you at every minute that this movie specially thanked Swarovski Crystal in the credits? Sure! Does it have theeeee single most pinpoint reading of MY PERSONAL FEMALE GAZE that Channing Tatum has ever done? (sorry mister Magic Mike, but you do not even come CLOSE to "may I kill him?" in terms of sexy) SURE! Was this movie a commercial or critical success? Absolutely not 😔

There isn't, as far as I'm aware, an art book. There isn't an official novelization. There isn't even an actual script posted to the usual internet databases that isn't just an automatic shitty talk-to-text rendition of the movie dialogue. There are concept art paintings and old cast interviews floating around, and this auction website where the Wachowskis auctioned off some of the props from the movie, but as far as canon resources and extra material beyond the movie itself there isn't much. A quick duckduckgo search would probably be more helpful to you than anything else, if any of the websites still have the articles up - it WAS eight years ago, and doesn't that just break my fucking heart.

My corner of tumblr LOVED this movie. In 2015, there were TONS of posts gathering interviews, posting concept art, making cosplays, all the signs of a small but healthy fandom ecosystem. However, we call this the blue hellsite for a reason - not all of those resources are still there, and the ones that survived time and incompetent archival site coding are probably difficult to find. I would definitely recommend trawling the JA tags of all the blogs I tagged at the start of this post, as JA introduced me to two of my longest and most beloved of all mutuals. ALL of their insights were key to A Fine Chain.

There is also my own jupiter ascending tag and my more specific jupiter ascending meta tag, although I don't know how bored you are lol. The general JA tag is 105 pages - I would almost recommend just starting at page 105 and working forward from there since it chronicles my descent into kinky space angel werewolf brain rot pretty nicely. There are also my ao3 bookmarks for JA.

I WILL SAY that it has been 8 years, and I have changed into a very different person than the one I was when I first saw this movie. I don't REGRET the first few chapters of A Fine Chain, or any of my breathless meta posts, but I do think that if I were to write any of them over again, I'd hope that my writing style has matured and I'd have lots more extra material to draw from. Actually graduating from law school, writing long fic in another fandom, and generally percolating more as a person has given me lots of new perspectives on JA that make it more interesting even as I still enjoy it (for example, HBO's Succession is ODDLY RELEVANT and I wish there were more JA fanwriters to take advantage of that fact).

...I hope that was helpful? I will ETERNALLY mourn the fact that this fandom wasn't isn't bigger - we haven't even broken 1k on ao3! But EYE MYSELF am here to discuss JA stuff as long as this weird spurt of creative energy sustains me, and my inbox is always open!

[whosamawhatsit]

So tomorrow is a total solar eclipse

I'm sure most of you have heard about it in one form or another already and we've all seen that airbnb map circulating around. But for the rest of the world and most of the US not in the totality path, did you know you can still watch it live?

Here's the youtube link for NASA's live broadcast.

Looks like it's scheduled to start at 1:00 PM UTC (here's a timezone converter for your convenience) but youtube should also give you the option for notifications. And because NASA is NASA, they're also going to have Q&A and science facts sprinkled in.

In addition, there are also indie groups like Slooh who will also be streaming the event on youtube and their website. Slooh is typically membership-only, but the stream is free for everyone via youtube. Unlike NASA you have to be a member to submit questions for their Q&A.

I recommend keeping one of these streams open even if you are in the eclipse path as you're going to want to keep your eclipse glasses ON UNTIL THE SUN IS FULLY COVERED. When I went with Slooh for the 2017 eclipse they gave us a countdown until it was safe to remove glasses, and fair warning when the totality had passed so everyone could get their glasses back on. Here's a Forbes article with a bit more information, but the TL;DR is you should wait until it gets dark before taking off your glasses and as soon as it starts getting bright put them back on.

And for those who aren't in the eclipse path and can't make it to either livestream, don't worry! If the 2017 total eclipse is anything to go by there's going to be plenty of documentation you can catch up on the next day, or even just a few hours after the event passes. In fact, one of the local Utah colleges managed to send up a weather balloon with a 360 camera to get a crystal clear view. Here's a link to the regular video they posted and here's a link you can watch from your phone for a VR experience. Smarter Every Day also filmed the 2017 eclipse including capturing the ISS passing by for a once in a lifetime photoshoot, as did Veritasium sans ISS photos. Both are science channels and go a bit more in-depth on what it's like to actually be there. I'm expecting both channels to cover this eclipse as well. SED already has some pre-eclipse info videos out which I'm not linking to but are all over the channel if you have time to browse around.

It's not quite the same but there was a partial solar eclipse in October of 2023 which OSP managed to cover. Red's video is tons of fun though so I'm including it.

Happy eclipse watching! Hope this helps.

[hollowtones]

godron we have to steal the time crystal

in half 2 but the ai they need to travel to distant past to stop breny and the Tyrannosaur Lords but theres no computers or VR back then so coomer etc all die. Badly.