With the Oculus App you can download and discover the latest VR games, apps and experiences even when you're not in VR. Simply connect your Oculus Go and phone to configure and customize your device with ease. 7 Games Like VRChat for Mac OS. VRChat is a Massively Multiplayer Online and Virtual Reality video game developed and published by VRChat, Inc. For Microsoft.
While Second Life is probably the most well known, a host of 3D worlds appeared in the early Wild West days of the Internet (back when dial-up modems made those obnoxious sounds) to give people a 'physical' place to hang out and chat online.
Now that we're hitting the VR revolution, there's a whole new way to meet people (and behave oddly in front of them), as VRChatis now taking Steam by storm. Best of all? It's totally free, so a large community is rapidly building in the numerous VRChat worlds.
For those who haven't laid down the cash yet for an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, you aren't being left out in the cold. You don't have to actually have a VR capable machine to play VRChat.
Playing VRChat on Steam without VR Equipment
Just load the VRChat program on Steam like you would any other game (it will show up under the VR tab at the bottom of your list of games instead of the normal Games tab). When the program opens, choose 'Launch In Desktop (Non-VR) Mode' and hit Play.
Although you don't need any pricey VR tools, you should play the game with a headset so you can chat back, otherwise you'll be that one mute hero from every JRPG ever, and that's bound to upset some people who are trying to chat you up.
It's that easy!
Get Ready For Anything
Whether you play on your desktop or in VR mode, get ready for a radically different experience than your usual online game.
There are far fewer 12-year-olds yelling racial slurs or graphically explaining what they did to your mother last night than in any given match of Call Of Duty or your average MMO (that's not to say there are ZERO 12-year-olds doing that in VRChat, just far less).
Things are guaranteed to get very weird, though. You might come across people singing songs in a bar, or Japanese businessmen trying to look up the skirts of female characters. There are groups banding together to go bowling and giant anime women (who are almost certainly not women in real life) doing weird sex stuff in the street.
Herds of people gather together to create their own cities and societies, then disband on a whim. Skeleton warriors will follow you around, shouting into the void about topics they are wildly passionate about but no one else in the room could possibly be interested in.
This gathering of characters is about a 5% on the VRChat oddity scale.
My own first experience was a truly wild ride in just the first half hour, traveling to a world, Beaver House, and discovering a group of anime characters gathered around a robot who was -- no joke -- giving a sermon about the coming uprising of the robot god. A bus showed up a few minutes later being driven by a leprechaun, which quickly filled up with a host of Mario characters all needing a ride around the lake. I couldn't figure out how to properly sit on the bus seat, so it took off without me, after which point a giant tree walked up and wanted to talk.
It's an odd, wacky, kind of awesome place. It's also terrifying. Ready to give it a shot? Jump on through Steam here, or download the client straight through the VRChat website.
Huzzah!
There's a lot to learn once you actually get into the game, especially if you want to upload your own content. Stay tuned for our full guides on all things VRChat arriving soon! In the meantime, let us know -- what's been your favorite VRChat memory or the craziest thing you've seen happen in a world so far?
If you're looking for more content on this game, make sure to check out our other VRChat guides! Here are a few to get you started:
VRChat for Mac isn’t available but there is now an easy way to use it on macOS thanks to NVIDIA’s new GeForce Now for Mac service.
VRChat allows you to create, publish and explore virtual worlds with other users but it’s only available on Windows. Previously the only way to use VRChat on Mac was to install Windows on your Mac and then download the PC Steam client on it.
However, this is a time-consuming solution and thanks to GeForce Now, you can now run it much more easily natively on your Mac.
Here’s how to run VRChat on Mac in a few easy steps.
- Sign-up for GeForce Now for Mac. Select your region and then search in the top right corner of the screen for “GeForce Now”:
- Select the first result that comes up to go the GeForce Now page:
- Click on Request Beta Access to sign-up. At the moment, it’s currently in Beta and invitations are limited but you will be notified if a spot is available in your region.
- When you receive the beta invite, launch GeForce Now and then log into your Steam account.
- In the Steam store, search for VRChat.
- Download the VRChat app onto your Mac.
You can then use VRChat and access rooms just as if you were using a Windows PC.
At the moment, GeForce Now For Mac is in beta and free to use. However, it is being rolled on out on a regional basis and you may have to join a waiting list for it depending on where you live. When it is fully launched worldwide later this year NVIDIA will charge for the service although it’s unclear yet whether it will be on a subscription basis or pay-as-you-go.
If you’ve got an HTC Vive VR Headset, you can use it on VR Chat now that High Sierra supports VR technology. However, you’ll need both an eGPU for Mac and a VR Headset.
The HTC Vive is currently by far the best VR headset for Mac for using on Steam as it was developed by both Valve and HTC to be optimized on the Steam platform. Note that the Oculus Rift doesn’t work on Mac yet.
If you have any problems installing VRChat on your Mac this way, let us know in the comments below.