Virtual reality is an odd thing. On one hand, headset sales were up 92% last year to 11.2m units, and Meta has more than 6x the job openings for Oculus than for Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp combined.
On the other hand, VR is a joke. Literally. A medium known as VR comedy — consisting of oddball interactions between people in the metaverse — is now trending, with ~30m views on TikTok.
The content is pretty ridiculous. One clip of a VR courtroom is about as orderly as you’d expect.
One popular group, Hummy’s VR Comedy, has 457k TikTok followers and 14.6m YouTube views. Their most popular TikTok is a quirky conversation with a banana man in an elevator.
Another group, Merry VR Pranksters, describes itself as “3 guys who do voices/characters and mess with people in VR.” Some clips include:
Our thoughts: The bits are funny — but they’re especially hilarious when you consider the interactions are between legless avatars controlled by real people, all of whom are speaking into a 1-pound hunk of plastic strapped to their heads.