I was a very early adopter of VR, playing pretty much every tech demo and game that was out there. Started in the Oculus DK2 days when it first had positional tracking, even the Tuscany demo was initially pretty mindblowing because it was a completely new medium. Autistically obsessed, I managed to get myself into an Nvidia press event where they showed off the HTC Vive and controllers with the Aperture Robot Repair demo and an early version of Arizona Sunshine. I was sold on motion tracked controllers, it was everything the Wii promised but failed to deliver in 2006. Pre-ordered the HTC Vive, spent hours every day finding every "room scale" demo and game I could pirate. I even went to University specifically to study VR game design. At the time, because you needed a PC to play VR, I was pretty much the only one in the dorms with a headset so I'd have people over every night to demo it and get reactions, everyone that played it loved it but none of them quite got my hyperfixation like "Steve" (not real name). Steve immediately borrowed $3k from his parents to buy a laptop and Vive set up for himself and spent hours a day in his own room playing VR Chat. I tried getting him on Pavlov (Counter Strike in VR), Onward (Battlefield in VR), anything that was multiplayer but actually engaging and all he wanted to do was play VR Chat. He went out to a second hand game store and got us an old Xbox kinect each for $20 so we could experimient with full body tracking which was super cool of him and I thought it was cool he was getting so deep into this! After a few months, I thought "What the hell, I'll join him and see what all the fuss is about!" so I downloaded the game and used Steam friends to join his session. What I saw was... life changing. Steve obviously hadn't noticed me join and he was some kind of anime girl avatar speaking with a voice changer, his mannerisms, his voice, his persona, entirely changed when he was in VR.