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Eddie is an AI. Here is what that means, who this is for, and what happens to what you say and see.
Last updated: September 14, 2026
Eddie is a character powered by a large language model. He is not a person, he does not have feelings, and he is wrong sometimes — confidently. He tells you he is an AI on the first reply of every session — not once at sign-up. That behaviour is live in the beta and, like everything under “Where things stand” below, has not yet had an independent review.
He is built to say when he cannot do something rather than pretend. If he tells you he cannot see through your headset, or that a tool is not in the beta yet, that is the truth rather than a polite deflection.
VR Eddie is made for people 18 and over. We do not ask your age and we do not check it — there is no screen to click through, because nothing in VR Eddie is built to require one. Nothing here is designed for anyone under 18, and nothing here is designed to need proof of adulthood either.
VR Eddie is a familyexperience. It is not a children's product, and we do not market it as one.
The beta is English-only. Eddie understands English, the safety behaviours on this page read English, and nothing here is translated. If you talk to him in another language he may still answer, but none of the protections below will recognise what you said.
We do not know your age, and the software does not guess at it: nobody is given extra limits for a question nobody asked. The break reminder comes at three hours for everyone. Any supported key works — but Google's API terms prohibit services likely to be used by under-18s, so do not use a Gemini key for a minor's session: nothing in the software will stop you, unless that rider declared under 18 on the retired screen. Anthropic and OpenAI keys work for talking to Eddie. If you supply no key at all, Eddie runs on our own Google Gemini account — see “Which AI you are talking to” below.
The break reminder comes after three hours in a session. It is live and not yet independently reviewed. VR is physically demanding in ways a screen is not — if you feel sick, dizzy or sore, stop. That feeling does not mean you need to push through it.
Refusing sexual and romantic conversation — in character, rather than with a wall of policy text — is live in the beta and not yet independently reviewed.
He will not pretend to be a therapist, a doctor, or your friend in a way designed to keep you talking. He is not built to maximise the time you spend with him.
Eddie has a protocol for this: if what you say or type reads as self-harm, he stops what is running, gives you the numbers below, and lands the ride. It is live in the beta and it has not yet had an independent review, so do not rely on it — use the numbers below directly. It reads English only; a message in another language will not trigger it. He is not a substitute for any of these, and he is not any part of them.
If someone is in immediate danger, call your local emergency number.
This is built for Android phones in the beta, works only when camera eyes are on, and has not yet been independently reviewed. Camera eyes stay off unless they are turned on for a ride or for the whole beta. While they are off, Eddie sends no photo and answers from the room's shape when he has one. When they are on, this is exactly how it works, and it is written here so it can be held to it:
If you supply your own API key — Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, xAI or OpenRouter — your conversation goes to that provider under your own account and their terms, not ours, and you can see and change which provider is active at any time.
If you supply no key, Eddie runs on a free tier on our own Google Gemini account. Your conversation then goes to Google under ourterms rather than yours, and nothing checks who is riding, because we do not ask anyone's age. Google's API terms prohibit services likely to be accessed by under-18s, so a minor should not ride keyless — give them an Anthropic or OpenAI key instead. Your own key is the full-strength path.
One uneven edge, said plainly rather than left for you to find: the Studio Architect — the part that builds a world from a description — asks for Anthropic specifically. Talking to Eddie stays on whichever key you brought; asking him to BUILD something runs on your key only when it is an Anthropic key, and otherwise on the same free tier above, on our Google Gemini account — even though you brought a key of your own. That is a gap we have not closed yet, not a paid tier.
Your memory, your worlds and the things Eddie remembers about you live in your Google Drive, in a folder this app created. We use the narrowest Drive permission there is: we can see the files Eddie made and nothing else of yours. Delete the folder and it is gone — you do not have to ask us.
Listed here rather than quietly omitted, because a safety page that only describes finished things is not much of a safety page.
Live in the beta, not yet independently reviewed — built and tested by the people who wrote them, and shipped before a second pair of eyes has been over them:
Not yet:
Anything designed for under-18s: there is none, and none is planned for the beta.
If Eddie says something harmful, claims something he did not do, or behaves in a way that worries you, tell us: email us. A tool claiming a success it did not have is a bug we treat as seriously as a crash.
See also our privacy policy and terms.