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  1. rec room has finally fallen. 2016-2026. im gonna miss it so much. #recroomshutdown #recroom

  2. Gizmodo: VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow. “This week, Rec Room, a popular VR meeting place and metaverse of sorts, announced that it would be shutting down on June 1. The reason? Business, of course.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/04/gizmodo-vr-just-took-another-massive-body-blow/
  3. Gizmodo: VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow. “This week, Rec Room, a popular VR meeting place and metaverse of sorts, announced that it would be shutting down on June 1. The reason? Business, of course.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/04/gizmodo-vr-just-took-another-massive-body-blow/
  4. It started to go downhill shortly after they added non-VR mode and filled it with microtransactions, but I’m sad to see that it’s completely dying… Paintball and Laser Tag were so fun, I loved playing those, messing with my avatar and stuff, and Rec Room was one of the first games I played way back when I got my first VR headset. It’d be cool if someone made a VR-only and open source spiritual successor to Rec Room’s great days…

    blog.recroom.com/posts/schools

    #RecRoom #VR

  5. It started to go downhill shortly after they added non-VR mode and filled it with microtransactions, but I’m sad to see that it’s completely dying… Paintball and Laser Tag were so fun, I loved playing those, messing with my avatar and stuff, and Rec Room was one of the first games I played way back when I got my first VR headset. It’d be cool if someone made a VR-only and open source spiritual successor to Rec Room’s great days…

    blog.recroom.com/posts/schools

    #RecRoom #VR

  6. #RecRoom will be #shuttingdown on June 1st, 2026, due to #financialdifficulties and challenges in the #VRmarket. The platform will no longer be accessible after this date, and several features, including account creation and token rewards, are already disabled. Players can download their data, including photos and a final report card. blog.recroom.com/posts/schools blog.recroom.com/posts/schools #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #XR #VR #MR #AR #BeyondPictures

  7. #RecRoom will be #shuttingdown on June 1st, 2026, due to #financialdifficulties and challenges in the #VRmarket. The platform will no longer be accessible after this date, and several features, including account creation and token rewards, are already disabled. Players can download their data, including photos and a final report card. blog.recroom.com/posts/schools blog.recroom.com/posts/schools #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #XR #VR #MR #AR #BeyondPictures

  8. Im soeben im @nomosverlag neu erschienen Sammelband "Democratic Culture in the Metaverse", herausgegeben von @MatthiasQuent, ist auch ein Beitrag von mir über "Platform Design, User Creativity, and Aesthetic Governance in Social VR".

    Ich vergleiche die Entwicklung der beiden größten kommerziellen Plattformen, #VRChat und #Recroom, insbesondere im Hinblick auf ihre Modelle der ästhetischen Regulierung von virtuellen Räumen und Körpern.

    DIe ganze Publikation ist #OpenAccess und kann hier heruntergeladen werden: nomos-elibrary.de/de/document/

  9. Sigh think I just got vote kicked of a #RecRoom laser tag match for using the normal-way-of-moving-in-vr feature (aka teleporting).

    I hate that this game’s been going downhill ever since it stopped being vr-only. I don’t suppose there are any alternatives to it right?

  10. Made some TMNT pixel art in Rec Room tonight. Now I have a giant Michelangelo from the NES game to put in my room!
    #recroom #VR #TMNT #PixelArt

  11. #Meta have created an app "Meta Horizon World", in 2021 it was "released" and region-limited to North America. 3 years later it is a fully tested product but now strictly restricted to France, Spain, Iceland, Ireland and UK.
    But France and Spain are part of #EU, so why restrict it to only two national ISP regions and not to the whole EU?

    On the other hand, do I need another #RecRoom or #VRChat with children running around yelling the worst words they just learned?

  12. 🔐 A deep-dive into the gaps in safety design across #SocialVR platforms like #VRChat, #RecRoom & #HorizonWorlds reveals social VR risks that feel like real-world harm, inadequate safety measures, and intricate bystander behavior.
    🚨 Read about this wake-up call for the industry in this #CSCW2023 work: tinyurl.com/vr-safety-cscw2023