Meta VR upgrade preview may be "a motion captured lie", but at least meta-Zuckerberg now has legs

[beschizza]

Originally published at: Meta VR upgrade preview may be "a motion captured lie", but at least meta-Zuckerberg now has legs | Boing Boing

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[dtut]

“A motion-captured lie;” pretty much Zuckerberg in a nutshell. Sorry, this is not the most productive tweet, so feel free to remove.

[HMSGoose]

Again, with the limitless possibilities of VR, why set these demos in the most bland setting? that looked like a shitty rendering of a talk show set poorly aping a living room. Is that…the extent of their imagination?

[Grey_Devil]

In some ways its a good thing that Meta can keep some level of enthusiasm for VR from consumers but you know… it’s Meta/Facebook. I don’t own any VR gear but if i was going to buy a set it would not be with anything affiliated to Facebook

[beschizza]

@HMSGoose

with the limitless possibilities of VR, why set these demos in the most bland setting?

As I remember the other day Microsoft Office 365 was the launch partner touted in the announcement for the new $1500 VR headset. It’s just what they are.

[Mister44]

If you give their avatars legs, as well as the attached pelvis, you are just going to have them start thrusting and tea bagging other avatars.

The internet is horrible.

[Melizmatic]

@HMSGoose

Is that…the extent of their imagination?

[Otherbrother]

The Metaverse Has Had a Very Bad Week

Even the people working on the Metaverse aren’t enthusiastic about it.

In a memo to employees from Meta’s VP of Metaverse, Vishal Shah, the executive wrote, "For many of us, we don’t spend that much time in Horizon and our dogfooding dashboards show this pretty clearly. Why is that? Why don’t we love the product we’ve built so much that we use it all the time? The simple truth is, if we don’t love it, how can we expect our users to love it?”

[Brainspore]

If most users really wanted to get up and walk around and interact with each other in a three-dimensional environment they probably wouldn’t be spending so much time online in the first place.

Even a stroll around a boring-ass industrial park is a more stimulating sensory experience than the best VR.

[Hanglyman]

The Playstation cutscene-graphics Zuckerberg still looks more human than the glassy-eyed real version.

[74hc595]

@Brainspore

Even a stroll around a boring-ass industrial park is a more stimulating sensory experience than the best VR.

While Meta Horizons is obvioulsy extremely dull, I wouldn’t generalize to all VR experiences.
Recently I’ve been playing Half Life 2 in VR and it’s absolutely amazing. I also had lots of fun playing VRchat with friends, especially game and horror worlds.

@Grey_Devil

I don’t own any VR gear but if i was going to buy a set it would not be with anything affiliated to Facebook

I bought HP Reverb G2 instead of Oculus Quest 2 exactly for this reason. Quest 2 required mandatory Facebook account and it was unacceptable for me. Recently Meta is forcing mandatory Horizons profiles on all Quest 2 users.

[Brainspore]

@74hc595

While Meta Horizons is obvioulsy extremely dull, I wouldn’t generalize to all VR experiences.
Recently I’ve been playing Half Life 2 in VR and it’s absolutely amazing.

Sure but using VR to put oneself into a fantasy/gaming experience is very different than VR for VR’s sake as the Metaverse appears to be.

If I want to fight mutants or ride a dragon or whatever then there aren’t many ways to do that outside a video game. If I want to chat with online acquaintances or watch a powerpoint presentation or do some online shopping then a VR interface is just going to create annoying barriers rather than enhance the experience.

[HMSGoose]

Ah, so then a shitty rendering of a bloated appset, aping Google docs…

[gatto]

@Brainspore

. If I want to chat with online acquaintances or watch a powerpoint presentation or do some online shopping then a VR interface is just going to create annoying barriers rather than enhance the experience.

what about if you need to access files to stop a dinosaur attack?

It's a unix system

[Brainspore]

I bring up this scene every time I teach a UI design class. (“For the love of God JUST SWITCH TO COLUMN VIEW”)

[OhHai]

@Mister44

If you give their avatars legs, as well as the attached pelvis, you are just going to have them start thrusting and tea bagging other avatars.

And/or this:

Report Finds Russian Hackers Gained Access To Millions Of Metaverse Legs

[anon52120741]

@beschizza

Microsoft Office 365

I believe that is now just Microsoft 365. They just dropped the Office branding because no one likes Office (at least that’s why I assume they did)

[chromecow]

Oh good. The thing nobody wants just got an update.

[DonatellaNobody]

I wanted the meta Zuckerberg to evolve into a fish

[RickMycroft]

The biggest lie is that this platform has any legs.