Dance ‘til You Crash:

Desktop Users vs. Full Body Tracking

by Pan Diman

Epic dance battle of VRChat. Picture taken and presented by Pan Diman.

Last Sunday, right between the US and the European meetups, a relatively small group of people, including Moddex, who seems to be their leader, started to dance to Russian music in front of a group of users with full body tracking, who were sitting on the ground, discussing latest body tracking issues with MehStrongBadMeh, who’s a relatively new Vive Tracker user, and talking about “Power Chords,” the new music event in VRChat hosted by ZirconSwift every Monday at 6 PM UTC.

Countless minutes passed, but the desktop users (or "Snakes") didn’t stop dancing, and that’s when VRChatters with full body tracking got up and turned on their music. After Gallium, one of the FBT users, started to dance to the music, Moddex responded, “Oh, you want to dance? Looks like they’re challenging us!”

However, even though Moddex was convinced that the users with full body tracking were the ones who started it, KorroBravin, who appears to be one of them, later responded that they were the ones who got challenged, “The Snakes showed up, then Gallium and us threw down.”

Apparently, Gallium thought it went the same way too, “Big Boss started it,” he said, “Korro aggravated it (their music was terrible anyway) and the dance-off started”.

Later, during the dance-off, Gunter showed up, possibly as one of the hosts of the Sunday meetup. When he saw what was going on, he said, “I don’t know what to do. I just don’t want it to stop.” Then he opened a portal to the “Rave Robbi” world, so the battle continued there.

It is still unknown who won the dance-off, but Gallium commented, “I'd say the full-body team won, mainly because we were the only ones actually dancing.”

Gunter checks in. Image by Pan Diman.