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@vxunderground Thanks for spreading awareness! We are the service they have been trying to impersonate, they even link to our discord. I just want to point out we are not associated with that at all. If you see other similar impersonations, please let us know!

@bottomlessaethe It's available in alpha, but there are a few hang ups before we can go for the full release (the free one!) Quest support barely made it in, and is still a bit shakey. It's hard to support such old hardware :x

Happy New Year all! For those testing the beta version of Hyperbeam in VRChat, we released some big upgrades to address artifacting and freezing issues! Things should be flawless now! If you haven't tested it in a while I encourage you to give it a try! Remember! VRChat isn't supported on the regular version of Hyperbeam yet. Only LSMedia and ProTV supporters currently have access, but this should be the last major update to the beta that will need testing!

If you have a Steam Controller, and want to test Hyperbeam with it, let us know! I have made some test bindings and I would like feedback! -R2 Left Click -L2 Right Click - Dpad Up for new tab Down to close current tab Left and right to select tabs -Hold R1 to use zoom mode. Dpad up and down for zoom in and out Dpad left or right will reset zoom to 100% -L4 Toggle onscreen keyboard -Start to toggle keyboard position -Right stick mouse control -Right touchpad trackball mouse control -Hold L5 to use gyro mouse control -Left stick for scroll up, down, left and right -Left touchpad clockwise motion for scroll down -Left touchpad counter-clockwise motion for scroll up

After some testing with the Steam Controller, I can already tell with the right bindings this would be a really relaxing way to use Hyperbeam! -Easy toggle keyboard -Static keyboard key positions with haptic feedback -Multiple options for mouse movement (Joystick, Touchpad, and Gyro) -Easy customization to tweak to your own liking If you have a Steam Controller, I'd love to hear your preferences on controls. Do you have a favorite button or gesture to toggle Gyro? Do you use the keyboard? Let me know!

@LtShadow_ If only our team saw this before reaching out to them about integration.

Lately, lots of scams on Discord DMs, and as a server owner I think I'm starting to see a new one. We all get reports of users who have their account stolen and are posting virus links. The natural reaction to seeing a screenshot of that just becomes. "Oh, not again.." and you ban them. Lately, I've been seeing situations where these screenshots are faked. It's not just as simple as harassing a person, they are using it to pretend to be discord/server staff with the ability to ban people. They tell staff a person is hacked, they get banned, then they reach out to that person pretending they are the one that banned them. No scam looks convincing from the outside looking in. We can all look at this and scoff it off, but given enough attempts, this sort of thing will fool someone at the wrong moment. So, if you run a discord server, do not trust screenshots. Have people use the forward feature to send you the real message from Discord itself.

When what happens? I linked you the announcement that they have joined. Hyperbeam had someone in the process of reaching out to that platform to introduce our product and try out their platform, but they didn't last to that stage unfortunately. You may personally choose to boycott a platform, but I choose to take real action to make things better and actually make changes that could save exploited children. Your post seemed to imply my few twitter comments on this topic means I haven't tried to help VRChat with their mistakes. They are a huge platform, mistakes are going to happen. Because they are willing to do things like join the tech coalition, no, I will not stop using or working with VRChat.

@OneMoreBenjamin @Shodah10 @BobbyThedog11 @BasedGoldShip @LumiiVRC "Why not put this effort on the minors being exposed and groomed in vrchat" So.. yes. I have. What have you done? Somnium doesn't have this issue because it doesn't really have users. If it had users, it would have issues. All platforms that get users eventually do.

@OneMoreBenjamin @Shodah10 @BobbyThedog11 @BasedGoldShip @LumiiVRC I suspect you are not aware of what Lantern is or all the good it does. Most general people do not because it's more of a tech industry thing. technologycoalition.org/programs/lante… hello.vrchat.com/blog/vrchat-jo…

@OneMoreBenjamin @Shodah10 @BobbyThedog11 @BasedGoldShip @LumiiVRC I did, actually. I had former co-workers introduce them to Lantern. What have you done?

@Shodah10 @BobbyThedog11 @BasedGoldShip @LumiiVRC Huge difference? Please explain the difference. This is not effective damage control. You may want to hire a PR firm. If you didn't do any of this, no one would be on the hacker idiots side. The issue here is private user data safety. That is also a very serious topic.

The statement of having the info sounds bad on it's surface, but in context it's less severe. It was said in reference to the person threating some form of attack. To the extent, I'm not aware, but I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt here. To me, it sounded like they could take legal action. When brought up like that, it does sound like people may assume he planned on leaking it publicly in retaliation. I personally don't believe that is the case.. maybe I'm wrong? I doubt it. However, none of their justifaction matches using a 'random name' for a john doe when anyone on the internet would refer to the username. The screenshot of them saying his name was dropped just makes it that much worse.

Referring to people as john doe in situations outside of legal proceedings where the user is unknown. It's a term only used when another, like a username, is not known. Why use a name instead of the clearly showing username? And why say this afterwards? Is this a joke too? Who says "Their name is dropped. They get scared and bail." referencing the use of "John Doe"? Is this a fake screenshot?

@FallacyHunters @LumiiVRC It happens, some platforms are destined to fail. I feel bad for any passionate employees trying to make something cool held back by that.

Leaking your user's registered data is never smart, even if you are "joking". They later claim it was a made up name, but in context, I don't believe it. Keep VR safe guys. Thanks for shedding a light on this before it became a larger issue, @LumiiVRC If this platform acts like this with 5-15 regular visitors daily, I don't ever see them becoming a notable player in the space without drastic leadership changes.

dumb pink fox @LumiiVRC

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Are you trying to tell me this is the reasoning for him not calling a person by their username in a voice call, as if that is a normal interaction online? Rest assured, in my decades in tech, it is not. I'm not sure what the line about VRChat is about, or what it has to do with this situation.

I've seen the video, a name was said. Whether or not it was real seem to the question. Let us ask ourselves this question, if the name was not real, why address the person by a name like that, instead of their username? The person in question has since said that is indeed their real nae. Now lets go a bit past that part where the hacker leaves. I believe something along the lines is said of "If he does anything, we have his name and address" This statement in itself isn't bad, obviously go after someone doing something malicious, but it's said right after referencing a name. Also there is the quote of you saying "his name was mentioned and he went quiet." Not a direct quote, forgive me. You can keep beating around this bush, but lets roll back to the start, why mention the name regardless? And why THAT name specifically? These questions aren't being answered. Your inability to not see why this is a problem is astounding. I am aware that two of you claim it was not a real name, but now I would like to know why it was said if it was not. Until then, I can't believe that, and it's not looking like anyone else does either.

@Shodah10 @BobbyThedog11 @BasedGoldShip @LumiiVRC As I said, that hacker idiot was from the US, that is why it was not a GDPR violation. If they were from the EU/UK, that would have been a very hefty fine. Hacker or not, you cannot distribute user private information such as a name like that.

Hey, some clarification. It is not illegal for them to have access to information you submitted to them through stripe. It is against GDPR to share that info, but only if that person is from the EU/UK. In looking into the situation, they dodged a €10 Million fine because that hacker was from the US. The US has no such protections comparable to GDPR. Instead, sharing that info just makes people not trust how you will treat their data, and rightfully so.

I have watched the video, which is why I referenced it in my original tweet. He also says something along he lines of "we have his full name and address if he does something" after saying the persons name. Hackers should be dealt with, but not like that. He clearly doesn't have much experience running a community of any sort.

By the way, if that user was from the UK/EU, that would be a very hefty GDPR fine. Privacy matters, a lot. We will continue to protect user privacy on our platform!