Add a Virtual Reality Category
Virtual Reality discovery is limited on Twitch. Indie titles are spread across multiple categories, with arguably the only unified VR category being Beat Saber.
Since 2016, the VR playerbase has increased by approximately 30% per year on Steam alone, this does not take into account the million+ headsets sold by Oculus-Facebook, Sony, and users on their respective platforms during this time. (Source: https://www.vrlfg.net/Charts)
We are proposing a general Virtual Reality category to support all VR titles, from Half: Life Alyx to Pavlov VR to the smallest and newest VR indie titles.
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GoofGuy commented
Hey Twitch, Partner here. In my own experience of creating VR content, there has been next to 0 promotions of game categories either directly by twitch or the game companies to promote VR gaming.
As it stands, it is in its infancy except for VRchat, which marries both flatscreen and VR users together.
There would be a great boon to twitch to take the lead with a Specific VR Category for a catchall for all games that are VR supported or VR ONLY games.
Just make it clear to exclude VRchat users for this category. The Games themselves that are either VR supported or VR only can be clearly set as a requirement in the title of the livestreamer.
Simple, Forward thinking and includes all games and players to be and celebrate community first TOGETHER.
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Youju commented
+1
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jerahnova commented
Yes I would certainly appreciate having this category. Not only is it a relevant topic for twitch that encapsulates their own variety of games that is what I'm looking for but also as a content maker myself. I would find myself streaming a whole lot more often, if virtual reality in general could be the implied subject matter in my stream. We need more eyes on this.
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Temlec commented
Hello, a VR category would be much appreciated I think. Many streamers share vr content and few viewers manage to find them because few people know the names of vr games.
However interested in seeing vr streams it would be cool to be able to stream more easily and find these same streams just as simply by a simple VR or VR games category. -
Choo_HeHimLVL3 commented
Virtual Reality does not have as many big games, and as a result using specific game categories (which often do not exist) limits discoverability a great deal. A virtual reality category would help resolve this issue by taking this broad group of games with just a few streams dedicated to them and collapsing them into a single category.
The VR tag unfortunately is not effective because it is used by a large number of other streams such as VTubers, PNGTubers, and VRChat users using a monitor.
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Rocksors commented
Twitch has enough problems with discoverability, this would be a huge boon for those of us that want to stream VR games. There's almost no point streaming VR unless its vrchat or beatsaber at this point.
Please add this, it's such a small change that could have such a big impact. -
vrgamer4life commented
If Twitch wants to encourage small developers, this is how you do it for VR. VR is still a growing ecosystem, and many games may not warrant their own category due to simplicity or lack of depth. (I have no idea how a game gets listed). But effectively hiding their visibility is just wrong. Tags are not the same for discovery. And aren't respected as well when content changes.
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ReaperOpsTV commented
I am a streamer and I think it would be great if there was a virtual reality category. Just a channel for all virtual reality games to be located for easy identification.
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Taki7o7 commented
still nothing, twitch is so lazy ^^
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Sledge_MgGee commented
JUST DO IT
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Yomarda commented
Would be nice to have a V-tuber category as many use the VR tag which makes people actually streaming harder to discover. There's also a few I've seen streaming nothing to do with VR with the tag which adds to the problem.
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BlitzVR commented
This would help out the VR community in so many ways. We can not only discover new games and streamers, but we can also get discovered as well.
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DasBambus11 commented
In my opninion this is a really good idea, but I think we have to do a lot to reach this.
The number of VR useres is increasing a lot in the moment and it will increase a lot in the future. -
pers0npers0n commented
I might actually use twitch if there is a VR category
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HeyItsFinnVR commented
Like duh? This should be a no brainer
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TheGamesTavern commented
would this also work as a tag? as games can be normal and VR played. Just a thought.
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jeditobiwan commented
yes please!
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Starry_Mic commented
This wouldn't be a problem if you could search by tags, but even if you allow users to search by tags you will have people tagging their streams as "VR" when they aren't.
I agree with Ruirize when he says that VRChat and Beatsaber is the only way to get visibility on Twitch because I have been streaming H3VR to nobody but as soon as I switch to Beat Saber I start to pull in viewers.
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snupescu commented
That would be awesome --- please, twitch overlords, do your thing!
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Ruirize commented
Adding to this; I was one of the early streamers making use of the Virtual Reality category.
It's really painful how much a lack of a general "VR content" top-level category hides an entire group of creators.
It seems like you either have to stream VRChat or Beat Saber to get any visibility on today's Twitch.