Which honestly makes it even weirder. If features like body tracking and hand tracking are still experimental/early access, locking them to VIMs only feels backwards. Experimental features are supposed to exist so a large group of people can test them, stress them, give feedback, find bugs, and help improve them before full release. Restricting that testing pool to a tiny exclusive group just slows everything down and makes the whole ‘experimental’ label feel more like marketing than actual community-driven testing.
I can understand giving VIMs early previews or priority access for a short period, but keeping major experimental systems locked away while the rest of the community just watches clips of it online is kind of frustrating. Especially when everyone else is the one who’ll eventually be using those features too. More users testing = more feedback, more edge cases discovered, more creativity, and honestly probably more hype around the platform overall.
Right now it creates this weird feeling where experimental features don’t feel like experiments anymore — they feel like status symbols. And that changes the vibe completely. Instead of the community collectively messing around with unfinished tech and helping shape it, it turns into people feeling gated out of the most interesting parts of development unless they pay or have special status











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