Developer Update - 6 June 2025

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Welcome to the Developer Update for June 6. We’re a day late!

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Today’s featured world is Solstice Cliffs by Anonine.

Announcements

Pride Month is Here!

Last week, we announced our all-month-long Pride celebration!

You can read more about it here!

For over a decade, VRChat has been a place where its users can explore their identity, meet others, and find community. It’s no wonder, then, that so many LGBTQIA+ folks call VRChat home.

This Pride Month, we thought it was time to support that community directly.

First, we’ll be partnering with Trans Lifeline, a trans-led nonprofit that offers direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis. We’ll be hosting our first-ever charity fundraising campaign, where VRChat will match all Gift Drop purchases starting June 11, donating up to $50,000.

We’ll also be dedicating the entire month of June to spotlighting the creativity and joy of our LGBTQIA+ community by highlighting their groups, worlds, and creations. This will include a brand-new Pride Hub World, with Pride Floats built by our community.

No matter who you are, there’s a place for you in VRChat.

Please note that you can earn the Pride 2025 badge and special surprises at the end of June by gifting VRC+ or purchasing a Gift Drop AFTER the campaign starts on June 11. Keep an eye out for when we go live!

2025.2.2 and the Avatar Marketplace are Live!

The Avatar Marketplace is now live!

You can read the full release notes here.

The Avatar Marketplace is a brand-new feature that lets you buy avatars from within VRChat. Simply open up your Avatars tab and click “Explore.” You can browse through a bunch of high-quality avatars, uploaded by VRChat creators.

See an avatar you like? Click it – try it on! Like what you see? Cool – buy it with VRChat Credits and now it’s yours!

This release also brought a bunch of fixes – including a speeded up download process for worlds, fixes to server-side analysis speed, and more.

2025.2.2p1 Was Also Released!

We released a small bug fixing patch yesterday. There’s nothing to big in this one – just a very typical quick-release patch taking care of some of things that broke in the major release.

You can read the full changelog here.

Furality Panels with the Devs!

We have TWO Furality panels with VRChat developers this weekend.

If you don’t know what Furality is, it’s one of VRChat’s largest conventions, welcoming 20,000+ users last year. Furality’s action-packed schedule includes an unforgettable non-stop Club experience, award-winning themed environments, stunning live performances, a huge variety of panels and meetups, an incredible Dealer’s Den vendor space, and so much more! Register here for a ticket.

The first panel is TODAY at 4pm PST led by the Community team (starring Tupper, Strasz, and Flare). You can watch this panel for free on Furality’s Twitch account.

The second panel is a general Developer Q&A featuring several furry developers at VRChat. This is on Sunday at 12pm PST. You can also watch this for free on Furality’s Twitch channel.

For both panels, you can submit questions for Q&A consideration on the Furality Discord.

Web Updates!

Some updates from the web team:

  • There are ten new login page backgrounds featuring some fantastic VRChat worlds, collect them all!
    • Psst, don’t worry, the horse is still there, lurking :eyes: :horse:
  • Updated a few stray Marketplace pages to include references to the Avatar Marketplace.
  • Improved some behind-the-scenes handling for different states a Marketplace seller’s account can be in.
  • You can now reset your profile icon or profile picture from the edit profile dialog.
  • Fixed an issue which prevented access to the license metadata files associated with JavaScript bundles.
    • If you know, you know.

Creator Roadmap Update Coming Soon?

As you’ve probably noticed, we haven’t updated our Creator Roadmap in a hot second!

Generally, we try to align these with our internal planning cadences. That means that when we discuss the roadmap internally as a team, we’re then able to report back to the community with our most accurate plan for the next few months.

We, unfortunately, missed the timing for our last roadmap update, as a few folks have pointed out recently.

But don’t worry! It’s not going anywhere. We’re currently planning the next roadmap update now! We thought we might be able to squeak it out a little early – hence the Dev Update delay – but alas, there was still a little more planning to be done.

So you can look forward to that in our next Dev Update, on June 19.

Conclusion

That’s it for this week! We’ll be back June 19.

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Congrats on the release of the avatar marketplace! I hope you’ll further address the Canny with almost 500 upvotes asking you not to put a store in front of our faces on every game session, especially if we already support you with VRC+ and aren’t the target market due to lack of DRM-free Unity files.

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Avatar Marketplace has been awesome! Already 12 sales within just the first 4 days!!!

Still hoping we’ll get the ability to provide source files at some point :eye:

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I second this.

I understand that you need to make money to keep VRChat going, but forcing the marketplace down players throats, especially your VRC+ users, is predatory.

We already support you financially and are not the target demographic of the marketplace in the first place. I do not think that alienating your supporters by basically shoving advertisements in their face will work out in the long run.

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You guys should be proud of your selves. I meet so many people who say VRC gives them a safe place to be who they are and find the people who love them for them. All of you make that possible. I have even met people who were not very LGBT friendly when they first came to VRC but with time they learned people are just people, some are kind and some not so much. Though VRC is not perfect, It’s a place that sparks conversation, creates exposer to people who might not have ever gotten it other wise and gives the option to be among like minded individuals. I think this is an important part of what makes VRC so amazing. I feel VRC is on the right path and look forward to what the future brings to this platform.

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Will the Creator Roadmap include accessibility tools for the SDK? For users who don’t want to go in-depth with the Unity Engine, and make it easy to create worlds and set up avatars? Like SDK2’s Trigger or nonscripting tool that isn’t too node-based, or maybe a better animation system than Unity’s horrible version of it?

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The update is great, although I like editing avatar so will not use the Marketplace.
However, can you return the ‘reset height’ of the avatar in the avatar menu?
That was something I used a lot and it is very tedious if I need to change and reset every time.

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Please fix the bad UI for the avatar section… This worries me even more for the future of VRC when you think it’s a good thing to make the UI worse for users. I wrote more about this on X and YT.

Also I’d like to know why for a very long time I’ve been having issues with Oculus Rift and VRC. Maybe you don’t know but I would at least like to have a confirmation that it hasn’t lost support somehow. Support hasn’t replyed in a long time and after several replies haven’t answered this question.

And why have group creation not been released for everyone yet? Did you change your mind about this too?

I’d also like to again mention the idea of VRC+ Lite. A much cheaper alternative that either gives you every feature but limited in capacity or where you can pick a number of features only, maybe with two tiers of different kinds of features. It’d be my first subscription to something digital after Nintendo online. I’m sad I can’t get basic features that cost money now, did not think that would happen.

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bump on the Marketplace tab thing.

my muscle memory is ruined!! and it’s not the same every time I open my menu because it only resets which tab is selected on game start.

this stupid change has actually convinced me to never use the avatar marketplace.

CHANGE IT!!!

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RELEARN IT!

Yes, it’s a kind of ad for now. But I feel that this per-session cancellation is not such a high-cost thing in this free-to-play application.

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It is if you are paying to support the platform. As such, I’ve already canceled my recurring subscription of over two years until this is changed.

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With the avatar menu change, am I correct in that I don’t see where the Fallbacks are? Like i was wondering what my current fallback is, but clicking around the menu I couldn’t find where to choose it.

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Correct. The Fallbacks section was removed from the avatar menu in-client though I believe you can still choose from the website. This is part of the process of them deprecating fallbacks in favour of impostors.

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I really do not want them to get rid of fallback.
I preferring people seeing my fallback that I created than a jagged, barely coherent imposter.
I always change to my fallback to speak to people who can’t see my normal avatar so.

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