as a deaf accessibility advocator, I 100% support this idea because everyone deserves to have accessibility, period. VRChat is required to accommodate people's accessibility needs. This is not optional. This idea is a must. VRChat must make this happen as soon as possible. Accessibility for everyone.

I definitely think there needs tp be a setting to turn off join/leave animations, as well as at minimum large/flashy(fireworks) items. As an example, at Furality recently, there were alot of people placing the pool item in rather large instances, since it was new. And it was VERY obtrusive. You could manually turn them off, but due to it being new, it'd another one would popup soon after.

I don't think fancy portals need a setting though. AFAIK none of them are overly large, or flashy, or noisy.

As a creator and someone with a vested interest in VRChat's long term health, as well as just a human being with differently abled friends: I support this 100%.

VRChat is many things, but I think the most prominent feature is that it enables people to gather and create communities of diverse people. This is the image they've built over years, but when accessibility problems like this occur I think it's a very negative detraction from that image. I understand this isn't a profitable thing to ask for, but I think without proper accessibility settings it will alienate individuals and even worse: cause physical harm to certain payers.

But this isn't even restrictive to photosensitive people, this is a genuine performance setting that would help every user increase their quality of life while playing. VRChat's team has recognized performance as an issue by giving players the ability to customize safety settings, graphical options, and other recent changes. Knowing that this is a focus of VRChat's team, would this not be under that category? Allowing users to disable these settings would be yet another effort for increasing QOL, even if it's only minor for performance it still is a contribution to player choice.

So in conclusion, for the sake of the differently abled and for those without 5090's, this is a positive change that will have minimal negative effects while increasing accessibility and QOL for players.

TLDR: Accessibility for everyone is important for the VRChat image, and overall performance increasing settings for users is never a bad thing.

Being able to turn them off should be a safety setting option.

Not just for those like myself who just find them obnoxious and childish most of the time. Not just for those with low end pcs or standalone headsets who start to lag due to them. But for first and foremost for those with medical conditions.

They shouldn't be forced to go through a whole instance list to manually turn off everyone's items manually. Let alone they have to keep track of new people joining the instance and turning them off too. I can't imagine how anxious these people must be, despite them trying their best and taking their own responsibility to turn off the items manually.

You seem to have the technology for it because instance owners can turn them off. Let us do it on a personal base as well.

I agree that VRChat needs to make options that include people that are unable to use games or watch things due to their epileptic and photosensitive issues. Due to VRChat taking away mods with their anti-cheat this still leaves a large gap of what they were able to give users. Even outside of this seeing non stop stuff can be annoying for any user as there's no way to negate it.

I hope that VRChat is able to fix this issue quickly and effectively.

I agree, VRChat needs to think about everyone involved. Seems they are only looking at the money part and not at the "what it could do to others" part of not being able to get rid of it.

I strongly support this, not only for people with sensitivities or specific conditions, but also in general, a lot of these are mostly just very annoying.

When I mix dj sets live and people send me bees or bubbles to my face , it is very hard to keep focus , and I need to turn them off one by one, which makes it even harder to focus on the decks.

Im all for fancy things and fun, but it should be something anyone can decide to see or not.

Thank you Annie, for putting this here

The clown horn sound effect of a particular leave animation is extremely annoying

I 100% agree and support this! It needs to happen!

Yes please help make vr chat more accessible.