- You look like a leprechaun. - (leprechaun) [Bleep] off.
- (chuckles) That's not nice.
- It feels like...
an open world. I feel very free here.
♪ (ragtime intro) ♪
- (FBE) So today, you're gonna be reacting
to something a little bit different. - How different could it be?
- (FBE) So we normally have you react to games
on the React Channel, but today we're going
to have you experience something that is not fully a game
in the traditional sense, but it's called VRChat.
- VRChat. Voice recognition?
- (FBE) So everyone you see will have their own avatar
or character that they use to chat with other people.
So any character you see moving in this environment
is a real-life player playing somewhere in the world
that you can go to talk to. - Oh. How fun.
- I think it sounds like fun as long as people are nice.
- I'm excited to try it out, because I'm just thinking
about that cartoon called "The Jetsons."
We're getting there.
- (FBE) So you can customize avatars but with us filming all day,
in the interest of time, we'll just have you be
whatever avatar it defaults to. - Okay.
- Oh, these are my hands. - (FBE) Yup.
- Doggone. That is really something. - See, there's a pool down here.
What am I wearing? Do I have swim trunks on?
- Hello. Does she hear me?
She's not answering. Can I talk to her?
- (FBE) Oh, you're looking in a mirror.
- Oh, that's me? (laughs) I'm a girl.
- (FBE) What we're gonna have you do now is we're actually
gonna have you go into one of the different worlds
starting with an open mic night. And you can perform
for whoever's in there. - Okay.
- (FBE) These are all the different potential worlds
that you can visit, but if you look down,
the one that we're gonna take you to
Is called Open Mic. It's in the bottom right corner.
- There's Uganda again.
- (Don) Do you know the way?
- I'm in a room. - We're going through the doorway.
Hot diggity, I got it! It says Open Mic.
- No one's here. Who am I gonna sing for? Come on.
It's a lot safer to sing here than it would be out in public.
- I see a woman on stage, one down in the audience.
- This looks like I'm entering some place
set in Las Vegas. - (player) Hello.
- Hello. Can you hear me? - (player) Yeah.
- I can hear you. Where are you?
- (player) [Bleep] you. - Oh, he wasn't very nice.
- How are you? - (player) Hi.
I'm fine. How are you?
- Oh, it's nice to talk to you. You have a very deep voice.
You look a little more feminine that perhaps your voice
would be higher-pitched. - (player) Just a skin, dude.
- Hello. I'm getting ready to sing some of your favorite songs.
♪ Amazing grace ♪ - (player) Okay.
- ♪ How sweet the sound ♪ - (player) What up, dude?
- You like that? - (player) Yeah, that wasn't bad.
- Give me applause if you like that.
- (player clapping) - (laughs)
- (player) You look like you have a hard time moving.
- This is the first time I've ever done this crazy stuff.
- (player) I assume so.
It's just like going out in public except everybody's a cute anime girl
or a weird-ass miscellaneous creature.
- And what do I look like?
What are they seeing when they look at me?
- (player) You look like a smart, sophisticated woman.
- (laughs) That's funny.
- You look like a leprechaun. - (player) [Bleep] off.
- (chuckles) That's not nice. Don't you wanna just talk?
- (player) You scruffy bastard. - I don't think they should
use the game to, you know, (laughs) curse at somebody
they're looking at. - ♪ Mary had a little lamb,
little lamb, little lamb ♪ ♪ Mary had a little lamb ♪
♪ Fleece was white as snow ♪ You like that?
- (player) Yeah, that was pretty cool.
- (player) Yaay.
- (player) It's open mic night. - Ugandan Knuckles,
I have a question. Is this a paid gig? (laughs)
- (player) No. - No?
Then get me outta here!
- There's a lot of people talking, huh?
- (player) ♪ I know you see ♪ ♪ Somehow the world
will change for me ♪ ♪ And be so wonderful ♪
- That one guy that's just singing that needs to
keep his day job. - I'm trying to follow my friend.
Oh, where did he go? Oh, there he is!
Are you from Earth?
- (player) Yes.
- Oh, that's good. - (player) I guess you can
narrow it down from there. (chuckles)
- (laughs) - Wanna hear me sing again?
- (player) Sure, Sarah Palin. - (player) Is that Oprah?
- No, I'm not Oprah.
- (player) Somebody came up to me and was like, "Do you know the way?"
And I was like, "Uh, yeah. Yeah, I know the way."
- Wait a minute. - (player) What you gotta do,
is you gotta go to McDonald's and order everything.
- Oh. - (player) And then you've gotta
think about your life decisions of asking me if I know the way.
- Is there a punchline here? - (player) Yes, it's the McDonald's.
- That is not the punch-- Where'd you go?
- (FBE) So now we've switched rooms. We're in the bowling alley.
- Okay. - I see one dude
and a doctor and giraffe, it looks like.
What are you? Oh. - (player) It's an anime rabbit.
- Oh, it's a wabbit!
- Hello. How you doing there, big boy?
You got... Don't turn your back on me!
- There she is. Yeah, I wanna talk this person.
- (player) You're talking right now. - I can't hear you.
- (player) Can I just point out the fact you just
called me a girl? - I can't hear them
is the problem.
- Oh. - (player) Are you from React Games?
- Yes, I am. - (player) I saw you react
to the character I have.
- (Don) Is that a real artist?
- Can you show me how to bowl?
- (player) Oh yes, I would love to. You just pick it up...
- Uh-huh. - (player) ...with your mouse
or whatever. - Okay, give me another ball.
Okay, got it. "Release to drop."
Land! (bangs table)
Oh! Oh. (laughs)
- We got the little... what do you call it?
Uganda Knuckle. - (player) You must have Ebola.
- (Rock snickers) You must have Ebola.
- Whoa! Little Uganda Knuckles looks like he's taken
some bowling balls and he might be going in your lane.
Grab one. Okay, turn around.
Ow! That was not nice!
- Oh, there's a bunch of people back here.
Oh my goodness. Look at this.
You better watch out for me. I don't know what I'm doing.
- What is your purpose here today?
- (player) I'm here to preach about...
- Do what? - (player) ...pornography.
I'm here to preach about pornography.
- Preach about pornography? - (FBE chuckles) All right,
let's move on. - Okay, carry on.
- (FBE) So online chatting has been around
in its primitive form since the '70s.
Do you think that this is a worthwhile milestone
for chatting with people online?
- Uh... no. Why need to chat that way?
Why can't you just chat the regular way?
- I definitely do. it feels like an open world.
I feel very free here.
- (FBE) So one of the game's other main features
is that users can create their own worlds
and chat to each other within them. So there are new things
being created all the time to do together virtually.
- Well, I would like that.
- This is really good for people who don't wanna
go out and socialize, 'cause they can socialize
in their own space.
- (FBE) So finally, knowing that this is just the beginning
of this technology, what are some pros and cons,
in your opinion, of a game like this?
- I'm trying to think of the pros. It's not something I would ever do.
- You've got people that you don't know
and people that it doesn't matter
what they say to you or not, their reactions can be appropriate
or inappropriate with no accountability.
- So often people say mean things whereas here, I felt like
it was a more social experience. - This might be good therapy
for someone who's having depression. It's a chance to get out
of the world and get into something else.
- The pros to me outweigh the cons.
Although I wasn't great at it, I enjoy being in that virtual world,
being someplace in my home, in a studio, in the hospital.
I could literally get lost
in their world and enjoy it.
And would I ever come back?
I don't know.
- Thanks for watching this episode of Elders React.
- Big thanks to Taven Webb for watching last week.
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just like Aby Clynes. - Hey, guys.
Ethan here from FBE. Thank you so much
for watching this episode of Elders React.
Are we good? Are we good on everything?
All right, I'm going back in. Ooh.