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The Virtual Reality Show, usually shortened to TVRS, is the YouTube channel of PHIA (also known online as PHIAbunny). She started it in February 2020 to talk about VR from inside VR, and it now has avatar tutorials, VR hardware videos and guides for people new to VRChat. She introduces herself on the channel as the show's virtual host.[1][2] As of November 10, 2026, the channel had about 279,000 subscribers and 127 videos.[2]

The show lives in VRChat too, with a group and a world called TVRS Studio where monthly live events are held.[3][4] Four of its videos are linked from this wiki's Getting Started page.

Image for The Virtual Reality Show's live events, from VRChat's March 2024 announcement on Steam.[3]

History

Before the show

PHIA had little interest in VR until the second half of 2019, when she got hooked on Chloma, a Japanese fashion brand that had teamed up with the free character creator VRoid Studio to sell virtual versions of its clothes. She wanted to wear them, so she made a character of her own, her PHIA model. She had never played VRChat, but she wanted somewhere to use the model, and she joined. Before long, she said, her whole life revolved around VR.[1]

A show made in a day

The idea came on a drive to university in early 2020. PHIA was listening to an interview with DigitrevX, one of the minds behind Projekt Melody, and realized she cared far more about this than about what she was studying. She went home that day, wrote a script, filmed and edited a video, and made a YouTube channel.[1]

YouTube lists the channel's creation date as February 17, 2020, and the first video, Projekt Melody (Virtual CamGirl?!), went up the same day.[5]

Meeting Porter Robinson

The show's first months also include a meeting with Porter Robinson. PHIA had made a VR model of the musician Porter Robinson about four months before her interview, after a friend and she talked about recreating Second Sky in VR. She posted a picture of it on the Porter Robinson subreddit, joking that he should get in touch about the download, and forgot about it. Two days later he messaged her: he couldn't get the model into VRChat. Within half an hour they were in VRChat together, swapping the model, and they kept talking and wandered through worlds for a while afterward.[1]

On March 20, 2020, the channel uploaded Thank you, Porter Robinson.[6] PHIA said the show's audience grew after he took an interest in it.[1]

The first year

Through 2020 the channel posted a lot of how-tos: using VirtualCast, building a virtual YouTuber model in VRoid Studio, bringing a VRoid avatar into VRChat. There were headset comparisons and trips through VRChat worlds like Virtual Market 4. Two videos that year thanked viewers for reaching 5,000 and then 10,000 subscribers.[7] The tutorials How to be a Virtual Youtuber! Complete Guide and Make a custom Vtubing model with VRoid Studio for FREE! have each passed a million views.[7]

Going full time

By August 2021, a CG Garage podcast page said, the show had passed 100,000 YouTube and Twitch subscribers in a little over a year, and running it had become PHIA's full-time job. The podcast introduced her as its first virtual guest.[8]

A VRChat focus

From late 2021, a lot of the uploads are about VRChat itself. A beginners' guide came out in September 2021 and was redone in April 2024. Other videos include The 15 Types of VRChat Players (October 2022) and a how-to on uploading avatars (September 2023). A roundup of worlds to visit, featuring Thrillseeker, came out in July 2022, again in July 2023 and again in March 2025.[7]

Hardware and other platforms still get airtime. Full-body tracking had videos in January 2022 and November 2023, a 2024 guide covered VR setups, and a May 2024 video looked at Resonite. The latest upload on the channel's page is The VR Cybersickness Epidemic, from October 3, 2025.[7]

Videos

A selection of videos, with upload dates and view counts as of November 10, 2026.[7]

Video Uploaded Views
Projekt Melody (Virtual CamGirl?!) February 17, 2020 54,684
Thank you, Porter Robinson. March 20, 2020 56,553
How to be a Virtual Youtuber! Complete Guide June 29, 2020 1,256,103
Make a custom Vtubing model with VRoid Studio for FREE! September 14, 2020 1,000,651
VRCHAT BEGINNERS GUIDE (Introduction for New Players!) September 23, 2021 838,883
The BEST VR Full Body Tracking is also Affordable!! [Tundra Tracker] January 5, 2022 922,518
Best Places to see in VRCHAT! [Quest & PC] feat. Thrillseeker July 27, 2022 430,423
The 15 Types of VRChat Players October 22, 2022 819,253
How to upload a VRChat Avatar - Complete Guide! [PC, Quest & VRoid] September 6, 2023 391,511
Slime VR: AMAZING Full-Body Tracking on PC VR + Quest for... CHEAP!! (Big Updates) November 19, 2023 712,014
The Best VR Setup for YOU! Complete 2024 Guide [VRChat] January 9, 2024 486,553
VRCHAT BEGINNERS GUIDE [2024] - Introduction for New Players! April 26, 2024 451,084

VRChat community

The show also lives in VRChat, around a studio world and a group.

TVRS Studio

TVRS Studio is a VRChat world made for the show. Its listing on VRC List calls it the official world for the series and says monthly live events happen there.[4]

The studio's opening shows up in the titles of PHIA's Patreon posts from 2022: "TVRS Main Lobby Preview" on August 1, "August Meetup and TVRS Studio Tour!" on August 18, and "TVRS Studio Launches this weekend!" on September 11.[9]

Group

The show's group is called The Virtual Reality Show - PHIA Community and has the shortcode TVRS.0429.[10] In a March 25, 2024 Steam post, VRChat said the group holds monthly live events at TVRS Studio, with performances and a chance to find new communities and hang out with PHIA.[3]

Events

Poster for the March 29, 2024 Celebrity Interviews event at TVRS Studio. It lists the guests as Moon, Twice, WispyWoo and Zinpia.[3]

The same Steam post advertised VRChat Celebrity Interviews for March 29, 2024. GreatMoonAroma, WispyWoo, Zinpia and TwiceVR were set to appear live in-world at 6:00 pm EST (3:00 pm PDT), with live VR musicians and an afterparty. Several official instances were open to join.[3]

In October 2025 the group joined Group Fair with two hangouts: TVRS Hangouts: Chill Night on October 24 (7:00 to 9:00 PM UTC) and TVRS Hangouts: World Hopping on October 25 (10:00 PM to 12:00 AM UTC).[10]

PHIA's Patreon page also announces regular meetups. The posts run from at least January 2021 to July 2026, and some titles say where they happen, like "April VRChat Meetup Date" (2025) and "Impromptu Patreon Meetup! (in Resonite)" (2024).[9]

Videos on the VRChat Wiki

This wiki's Getting Started page thanks PHIA and The Virtual Reality Show team for the videos in its Videos section. Four of them are on the TVRS channel:

TVRS Wiki and the PHIA Phorce

The show has also inspired a fictional universe. The TVRS Wiki is a separate site with a science-fiction setting built around a group called the PHIA Phorce. It says it started as a fan wiki and is now its own production under different branding, with some staff in common with the official channel, and that PHIA has given permission to use the TVRS intellectual property. The site credits PHIA as the creator of the show, the lead of the "Bee-Sus" storyline, and the designer of a VRChat world for the setting's Bee-Sustainable Company, HIVE-7.[11]

See also

Official resources

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Virtual Reality Show! with PHIABUNNY" on Otakify. March 2020 (interview with PHIA). Retrieved November 10, 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "The Virtual Reality Show" on YouTube. Shows the channel's join date (February 17, 2020), subscriber count, video count and description. Retrieved November 10, 2026.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "Join The Virtual Reality Show with VRChat Celebrity Interviews on March 29th!" on Steam (VRChat announcement). Dated March 25, 2024. Retrieved November 10, 2026.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "TVRS STUDIO VRChat World by PHIAbunny" on VRC List. Retrieved November 10, 2026.
  5. ↑ "Projekt Melody (Virtual CamGirl?!)" on YouTube (The Virtual Reality Show). Dated February 17, 2020. Retrieved November 10, 2026.
  6. ↑ "Thank you, Porter Robinson." on YouTube (The Virtual Reality Show). Dated March 20, 2020. Retrieved November 10, 2026.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 "Videos" on YouTube (The Virtual Reality Show). Upload dates and view counts are taken from each video's own YouTube page. Retrieved November 10, 2026.
  8. ↑ CG Garage podcast episode with PHIA by Christopher Nichols on Chaos. Dated August 2, 2021. Retrieved November 10, 2026.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Sitemap" on Patreon (PHIA). Lists post titles and dates only. Retrieved November 10, 2026.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 See the 2025 tables on Group Fair, which list the group under this name and shortcode.
  11. ↑ "TVRS:About" on TVRS Wiki. Retrieved November 10, 2026.
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