Walter H

Walter H is more than a regular VRChat player. He is an enthusiast who lives and breathes in VR and encourages everyone that he meets to get into it and enjoy the fun as much as possible.
He is a fullbody user who enjoys dancing and you can often find him in various clubs such as Club Zodiac, The Royal Gator and others while enjoying the game to its fullest.
Aside from playing the game, IRL Walter is also a behavioral biologist contributing researcher to a science team that studies VR. He has been active since Oculus Rift Development Kit 1.
He has contributed in various scientific studies, studying the long-term effects of using VR such as "disassociation" and positive effects of for people to use it as Virtual Reality Therapy to treat all sorts of phobias as well as reduce anxiety for people with gender dysphoria.
==History and Biography==
Known as an early adopter of VR Walter participated in Oculus Rift Development Kit 1 and has been active in VRChat since its early days.
He met Roflgator in a public Void Club on Jan 5th 2020 sharing his passion and enthusiasm for VR and would later join his parties and events occasionally dancing on stage at his bar The Royal Gator. Later on Mar 11th 2020 he loosely participated in the silly roleplaying arc The Gay Bar vs The Swamp.
On Mar 18th 2020 he participated in Sexiest of The Royal Gator Competition March edition at Roflgators bar, The Royal Gator, competing against UzuriMia, Ninjakikio, Gap Gap, TheBigMeech, Antonio, Shrimp, WatermelonJustice, Klaatu, The Roaring Rex and ChanceAdvanced. He made it to the finalists and lost the award. Now there is an image of him hanging on the wall next to the stage in the bar.
Along with Happy Steward and Vore he judged the Miss May 2020 Competition on May 8th 2020, where Traciel took home the title. A few days later on May 13th he competed in Mr May 2020, but in the end lost to Shrimp.
Participated in Iron Jew Elimination Dating on June 5th 2020 but was eliminated in round 2 for being "love-able but as a friend".
Entered the Bricktown Election 2020 Presidential race along with his Vice-President "gay" SciFri. One of his main policies was creating a Stanford Prison Experiment RP. Although he would eventually lose the election to AskJoshy, Walter would get to direct a mini prison experiment on the June 29th 2020 game night.
On July 3rd 2020 he participated in a 'Date Night' and spent an evening with MurderCrumpet. They both expressed interest in deepening their relationship. Going on and off they appear to be exploring each-other as options but with Walter's poly-amorous past and Crumpet wishing him to be exclusive have them working proving a bit tricky. Crumpet accidentally calling him Meech occasionally, haven't helped the situation.
He debuted a new avatar created by Sorry on July 8th 2020.
==Related VR science==
Often chatting people up with his passion for VR and the science of using VR, some scientific topics that Walter talks about which he has been involved in studying are the following.
===Virtual reality therapy===
The phenomenon of disassociation is the feeling of having an out-of-body type experience after prolonged use of VR and a reduction in psychosomatic responses (sense of touch/reaction to perception) IRL.
Sometimes described as training the brain into reduced response to stimuli which can have a use in treatment of various phobias such as acrophobia (fear of heights), arachnophobia (fear of spiders), stage-fright or similar bad experiences by getting used to them in virtual reality.Related Science: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-53491-001
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20712501
:Also see Wikipedia: Virtual reality therapy
===Body transfer illusion===
The phenomenon of your brain associating yourself with your avatar and depending on the persons personal level of immersion - may feel a false sense touch when their avatar interacts with objects.
This phenomenon is also described as "Phantom Touch", "Body transfer illusion" and was popularized in scientific literature using the "Rubber hand experiment". The phenomenon has also been described to being similar to the experience of amputees feeling phantom pain in a lost limb. The false sense of touch does not have to be unpleasant.Related Science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_transfer_illusion
:Also see Wikipedia: Body transfer illusion
==Trivia==
*Known for his signature laugh.
*He did some charity streams on Twitch in early 2018.
*Roflgator has described him as being the happiest person he has met in VRChat and knowing how to enjoy playing the game to its fullest, wishing that he could as well.
*He was early using the phrase "Yazz Kween!" ("Yes Queen!") and inspired other players such as MoonPixie who now say it often.
==Links==
===Social Links===
*Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/walterhugs
===Twitch Clips===
*Walter H's research on dissociating and psychosomatic responses in VR
*Walter H's positive effects of VR for people with gender dysmorphia
*Convincing Roflgator to get in VR again
*Dyrus and Walter
*Haahaaaaaa!
*Walter losing it laughing
*Introducing Walter
*Walter cant hold it in during Meech and Crumpets wedding
*Walter and gay SciFri make their Presidential speech
*Andy Milonakis meets Walter
*Guess the Walter
*Walter Underwater
*Walter wants Coop all for himself HAAA
==Gallery==
===Gallery Screenshots===
Rofl Jan 14th 2020 35 Walter H on stage in The Royal Gator.jpg|Dancing on stage at The Royal Gator
Rofl Jan 14th 2020 36 Walter H on stage in The Royal Gator.jpg|Dancing on stage at The Royal Gator
Rofl Jan 14th 2020 38 Walter H.jpg|Walter
Rofl Feb 18th 2020 14 Listening to Walter H intently.jpg|Walter in The Void Club
Rofl Feb 18th 2020 13 The face of listening to Walter.jpg|Walter in The Void Club
Rofl Mar 11th 2020 34 Walter fighting VS RadiantSoul.jpg|Showmanship play-fight vs Radiant Soul.
Rofl Mar 18th 2020 28 Finalists Walter H, Ninjakikio and UzuriMia.jpg|Sexiest of The Royal Gator Competition finalists, Walter, Ninjakikio and UzuriMia.
Rofl Mar 18th 2020 29 Winner Walter H.jpg|The winner Walter.
Rofl April 24th 2020 34 Fighting Arena Winning shot Wonka NippNipp and Walter.png|Holding up the winner NippNipp from the Wonka vs NippNipp Fighting Arena event.
Meech and Crumpet wedding by Spazkoga 10 Roflgator and Walter.jpg|Seated next to Roflgator during Meech and Crumpets Wedding
Meech and Crumpet wedding by Spazkoga 4 Burson Roflgator Walter Zapdec Gapp Kasumi Jogie J4key Ladle.jpg|Seated next to Roflgator and Zapdec during Meech and Crumpets Wedding
Rofl May 8th 2020 8 Swifterini Miss Royal Gator May judges Happy Steward Walter and Vore.png|Judging Swifterini for Miss May 2020, along with Happy Steward and Vore
Rofl May 8th 2020 16 Judges Happy Steward Vore and Walter H.png|Deliberating with the other judges
Rofl May 13th 2020 27 Walter H Speech.png|Making a speech for the Mr May 2020 competition
Rofl June 5th 2020 45 Walter flexing in front of Iron.png|Dancing for Iron Jew Elimination Dating
Rofl June 19th 2020 15 Walter H and Gay SciFri presidential speech.png|Walter and "gay" SciFri make their Presidential debute speech
Rofl June 20th 2020 49 Andy Milonakis meets Walter H.png|Andy Milonakis meets Walter
Rofl June 23rd 2020 7 Meech Vicse and Walter H guess the word.png|With teammates Shrimp and Vicse for the 'Quirk" game on the June 23rd game night
Rofl June 26th 2020 Walter SciFri Election.png|On election night
Rofl June 29th 2020 8 Walter H and Mirish.png|Walter and Mirish
Rofl July 6th 2020 12 Guess the real Walter.jpg|Guess the real Walter
Rofl July 27th 2020 2 Game-night - Two liars one truth - Walter H Jadez and AxMan.png|Walter, Jadez and AxMan during The Golden Gator game night in a game of "Two liars, one truth"
===Artwork Gallery===
Walter H artwork by Zernovia.png|Artwork of Walter by Zernovia#0788
Artwork of Walter by FloatyPhantom.png|Artwork of Walter_H by FloatyPhantom
Artwork of Walter by Pip.png|Artwork of Walter_H by PipPip (Pip#8898)
Walter H artwork by Golly.jpg|Artwork of Walter by Golly at GollyFlower
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