One is, it’s an artless attempt to create something as quick as possible to grift people. There’s no passion in these. It has the same energy as early smart phone days when the entrepreneur types were just trying to fling out an app as fast as possible regardless of whether their app made sense or was even really useable. Also like then, there’s not really an agreed upon metric for what this stuff is supposed to look like so ppl are just throwing shit at walls
Second, the hardware isn’t really there yet for wide spread good looking vr. The quest 2 is the most owned vr anything and running things natively severely limits what you can do. (Vr will always lag behind flatscreen games bc the gpu effectively has to render the scene two times, halving the poly budget. They’re working on ways to mitigate this but until it’s “solved” it’s always gonna look like ass compared to what you’ll get on a traditional gaming experience)
Most normal ppl don’t have vr ready PCs, nor the technical inclination to set up tethering just to chill in a hokey straight-to dvd-Pixar-wannabe looking space with dudes who talk about crypto nonstop
There are some cool spaces in like vr chat that are crafted by people who are passionate about vr and 3d modeling and stuff. I’ve been in some worlds that were very cool and I just vibed for a bit. It’s a cool experience but these things that are coming out are purely for the grift
Why does the Metaverse always look so goddamn awful? It looks older and jankier than Second Life ffs
I think for two main reasons,
One is, it’s an artless attempt to create something as quick as possible to grift people. There’s no passion in these. It has the same energy as early smart phone days when the entrepreneur types were just trying to fling out an app as fast as possible regardless of whether their app made sense or was even really useable. Also like then, there’s not really an agreed upon metric for what this stuff is supposed to look like so ppl are just throwing shit at walls
Second, the hardware isn’t really there yet for wide spread good looking vr. The quest 2 is the most owned vr anything and running things natively severely limits what you can do. (Vr will always lag behind flatscreen games bc the gpu effectively has to render the scene two times, halving the poly budget. They’re working on ways to mitigate this but until it’s “solved” it’s always gonna look like ass compared to what you’ll get on a traditional gaming experience)
Most normal ppl don’t have vr ready PCs, nor the technical inclination to set up tethering just to chill in a hokey straight-to dvd-Pixar-wannabe looking space with dudes who talk about crypto nonstop
There are some cool spaces in like vr chat that are crafted by people who are passionate about vr and 3d modeling and stuff. I’ve been in some worlds that were very cool and I just vibed for a bit. It’s a cool experience but these things that are coming out are purely for the grift
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