We need your valuable insight with our study about user experience in social VR towards designing safety enhanced social VR platforms.

The study is conducted by a group of researcher at the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom.

If you are interested and willing to share your experience, We would like to invite you to participate in our online survey. https://uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eJXpu7KMV6mNveu

Thank you for taking some of your time! Please comment if you have any questions.

Hi guys, I am a post doctoral researcher from the UK, and I am interested in learning about user experience with safety features of diffrent social VR platforms.

If you are a general user of social VR platforms, and interested in sharing your experience, I would like to invite you to participate in our online survey. https://uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eJXpu7KMV6mNveu 1

This only takes a few minutes to complete. The study is approved by UoG CoSE ethics committee. As a token of appreciation, you will have the chance to win a Amazon gift card.

Thank you for taking some of your time! Please contact me if you have any questions.

Don’t hesitate to share, I would really appreciate it as I need more user insight!

Hello there! This post is for academic purposes. If this is not appropriate, moderators may delete it.

I am a university student, and I am currently conducting a small term research assignment related to one of my undergraduate courses. Virtual reality social platforms, especially VRChat, are incredibly popular ways of socializing and community building in the modern age, sometimes functioning in tandem with or even superseding physical socializing in reality. I would like to learn more about the social factors, both online and offline, that contribute to this.

Below is a short survey and questionnaire (roughly 10-15 minutes) asking for basic statistical information and brief individual experiences regarding VRChat. All answers are entirely voluntary and anonymous, and no individual or specific answers will ever be revealed. If you choose to fill out the survey, you only have to divulge information that you want to. There are no incentives for filling out the survey as I do not have any means of providing any. However, your help and time would be greatly appreciated, and I thank you in advance for your consideration.

https://forms.gle/LFuYPxd8xoiW3N8NA

Pretty much the title. Is anyone aware of any social VR apps where I can watch my own social network content (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok) with my friends (also in VR)? Horizon home watch parties can watch a few Facebook videos, but only what is "trending on Facebook", not my own videos/content. Bigscreen VR allows mutual watching of YouTube videos, but not Facebook/Insta. Any ideas? Thanks very much!

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Hello everyone,

I am a PhD candidate at Galatasaray University and I am seeking to interview AltspaceVR users and creators (e.g., world-builders, designers, and event creators) to gain insight into their experiences on AltspaceVR. Additionally, given the recent developments surrounding the shut down of AltspaceVR, I am keen to understand the impact this decision has had on you, your community, and/or your professional endeavors.

I am seeking individuals who are at least 18 years old, fluent in English, and have prior experience using AltspaceVR. Interviews consist of open-ended questions and last approximately one hour. Participants will be compensated with $10 Amazon e-gift card.

Interviews will be conducted on either Zoom, Discord, or AltspaceVR, depending on your preference. Participants who wish to be interviewed within the platform must own a VR headset that is compatible with AltspaceVR.

If you are interested in participating in the study, please review and complete the form:https://forms.gle/pcWGFJKkAEFhnC9m7

Hello everyone,

For my postdoctoral research at VU University Amsterdam, I am developing a research program on the potential psychological benefits and risks of VR use among frequent users. As more and more users are using VR, many questions arise about how it can affect how we feel and our subjective wellbeing (either in a good or bad way). For instance, in previous research, we have already explored how VR can help connect people, among other positive outcomes (particularly, in covid-19 times).

Currently, we are exploring potential "weird" experiences that users might have. If you are a VR user (e.g., you use often, or occasionally, a VR application like VRChat, AltspaceVR, Horizon Worlds, etc.- -, for leisure or work), a little of your time can be of great use to help me conduct my research, and, in general, to us to better understand these questions!

The survey is anonymous and only takes about 5-6 minutes to complete. In addition to collaborating with academic research on this topic, those who complete the survey can participate in a raffle for three Amazon gift cards ($50.- each) (as a small gesture to say thank you for your time)

Thank you a lot in advance! And, of course, if you have questions, feel free to DM

To learn more, and to take the survey, please use this link: https://vuass.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3WRQIWaeuB0I8XI

Hi! We are a team of researchers from the CUGAME Lab (https://computing.clemson.edu/cugame/index.html) in the School of Computing at Clemson University, USA! We first want to thank your tremendous support as we have successfully recruited participants from this subreddit and have interviewed many of you before! If you are interested, you can read our publications about social VR based on those interviews: https://guof.people.clemson.edu/research.html

Currently, we are doing a new research project about peoples’ experiences with harassment in social VR (e.g., AltspaceVR, VRChat) and how harassment can be mitigated in social VR. So we’d like to recruit potential interviewees again! Women, LGBTQ individuals, and ethnic minorities are especially encouraged to participate. However, harassment can happen to anyone, so anyone who has had such experiences and wishes to share should participate. The project is being led by Dr. Guo Freeman, Assistant Professor of Human-Centered Computing (https://www.clemson.edu/cecas/departments/computing/people/faculty/hcc_faculty.html).

If you have personally been harassed, witnessed someone else being harassed, or have been accused of harassing others in social VR, and you are 18+ years old, please fill out the following interest form:

https://forms.gle/UbyuoFTemR9nNJLp8

A researcher will get in contact with you after the survey is completed.

Interviews can be conducted via voice/text/video chat through Zoom, Discord, Skype, or Google hangouts based on your preference. An interview may take around 1.5 hours. Interviews are safe and your privacy will be protected -- we will NOT collect any personal information except some basic demographics such as age and gender. The data from this research study may be published, but you will not be identified by name or your online username or email address.

We will offer you a $50 Amazon gift card via email once you complete the interview. Feel free to email us at kelseas@g.clemson.edu if you have any questions. We look forward to hearing from you!

So, I requested this avatar in August. Good price, good looking. Problem is, the last update I got on it was OCTOBER! I'm sick of waiting and the creator has been on too many hiatuses. I'm wondering where I could find someone to make me a new one? Looking for websites and even creators to be recommended.

^^^ Research Alert ^^^

If you use any social VR apps like VRChat, Altspace VR, etc., I need your help in understanding the role of social VR in your social activity as part of my research. It would be very helpful if you could take a short 10-minute survey below. Thanks for your time :)

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdcxqqeKXc5aoYmnj-THxjQ0QIv3QY4bWRyGHZyQMLJc3F5RQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

Hi everyone!

I am currently writing my master's thesis at a German university and would like to find out whether people who use social VR for the first time have a different impression about it than people who know it for a longer time.

If you are a social VR user please fill out this survey: https://www.soscisurvey.de/SVRmaSS21/?q=ONLINE

Feel free to ask any question or make suggestions.

Thank you very much in advance!

Hello everybody!

Thanks to everyone that has already participated in our survey on Self-Disclosure behavior in Social VR! We want to share some preliminary demographic data with you. These give you an impression of who already participated, but do not spoiler you and leaves you unbiased in case you want to participate.

We will leave the survey online for two more weeks and hope to get an even more diverse sample: Participants from different regions and Social VR platforms. Thus, if you are interested in the topic Self-Disclosure and did not participate yet, there is still time

Here you also find the link to the original survey request. Again, feel free to reach out in case of questions or discussion points!

Survey Link: https://limesurvey.ecg.uni-due.de/index.php/322544?lang=en

Original Request: Have you ever thought about how you disclose personal information in Social VR? : SocialVR (reddit.com)

Thank you very much!

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Hello everybody,

I am currently mentoring a master thesis that is related to a survey I conducted last year. Maybe you remember my last survey, I included two links at the end of this post.

In this thesis, we want to find out if and how you talk about personal things in Social VR and which influencing factors in VR affect your sharing of personal information. These questions belong to the research topic Self-Disclosure, which investigates diverse aspects of revealing personal information to others.

Especially in the last year, digital communication methods have become crucial for many people, and Social VR is one such digital medium. However, We don't want to explore Social VR in the context of COVID 19, but rather more generally, and we'd like to solicit your support for this.

The survey should take maximum about 15 minutes and works on PCs, tablets, and smartphones. To participate, you must be at least 18 years old and currently using a social VR app (e.g., Recroom, VR Chat, Neos VR). Most questions can be answered by placing checkmarks. Occasionally we ask you to enter free text answers.

This is the link to the survey: https://limesurvey.ecg.uni-due.de/index.php/322544?lang=en

We host the survey on our university server and do not collect any identifiable data. Your participation is anonymous.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me or leave a comment here.

Thank you very much for your participation! If you don't participate, thank you for reading the request, maybe you know someone who could be interested in this survey.

PS:

Here is the link to my previous survey request: https://www.reddit.com/r/SocialVR/comments/gmq2xd/update_on_social_vr_motives_study/

Here is the link to the results of the last survey: https://www.reddit.com/r/NeosVR/comments/jrtqpe/results_your_social_vr_activities_and_motives_for/

The last survey was published this March (2021) at a leading international VR conference (IEEE VR). As was the case then, once the current survey results are analyzed, we will look forward to share the results with the community.

Hi everyone! I'm conducting a survey into social VR for my master thesis communication sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and am looking for social VR players!

The survey takes about 5 minutes. By completing the survey, you:

• Can participate in the raffle for one of the two $50,- Amazon gift cards
• Provide an insight into the social VR and its effects for academic purposes
• Help me to complete my thesis!

The following link takes you to the survey. Thank you very much for participating!

https://vuass.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV\_43fk9NGqCrp2tgi

For people who use VR for dancing

^^^ Research Alert ^^^

I need your help in understanding the role of VR in dancing as part of my research. It would be very helpful if you could take a short 5-minute survey below. Thanks for your time :)

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSccXnv6J1vzhNdL9ECaZztCeetXeaF_XeAdAjDc-SfbTLMcEw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Visiting the Wonderful Worlds of ケセドCHESED in VRChat:

https://ryanschultz.com/2021/04/22/visiting-the-wonderful-worlds-of-%e3%82%b1%e3%82%bb%e3%83%89chesed-in-vrchat/

Hello, is there any virtual reality platform where I can find research groups, and new connections to socialise?

VRChat Launches Wolf3D’s Ready Player Me Avatar Creation System: Create a Humanoid Avatar from A Selfie in Just Minutes!

https://ryanschultz.com/2021/02/24/vrchat-launches-wolf3ds-ready-player-me-avatar-creation-system/