Legs!
Who is actually using this shit?
Am I getting old or is this legitimately just 100% advertisement?
No one. I posted an article yesterday about how The Zucc has to pester the team designing this monstrosity to actually use it, and when their managers finally cracked down on them and told them they had to hold a meeting in Horizon it turned out that half of the developers didn't even have a Quest, let alone one that was in usable condition.
Honestly, respect to the devs for not giving a shit about The Vision and just taking home their check
Somehow they didn't just decide to buy VR Chat. That's basically all they've got I think. Shittier VR Chat and something that's somehow worse than what Linden Labs would've done to Second Life if they'd taken VR semi-seriously.
Somehow they didn’t just decide to buy VR Chat.
And honestly thank god for that. VRChat has some of that weird old internet feeling of chaos and weirdness that has somehow survived in to the dismal hell of 2022.
What would be even cooler is open-source and federated social VR. VRChat seems alright now, but I can't help but think they'll eventually be bought out or otherwise destroyed through exploitation. Getting a federated social VR network off the ground now would (hopefully) prevent major tech companies from trying to take it over.
Oh yeah, I've never used it but more independence from these tech monopolies can't be bad. It still seemed like the obvious move, even if they kept VR Chat totally separate and just started forking off it for their Facebook VR.
It's so intensely bizarre. Running around with dozens of people wearing anime and furry avatars talking to people from other countries about random shit while sitting in, like... a flying nightclub in orbit around jupiter. It's so surreal. I just wish it was easier to meet other people with shared interests.
I'm sure the decision to buy vs build came up, I wonder if the furries and anime avatars came up. I can't imagine it was that big a deterrent, most people would probably have never even been aware of the hypothetical VR Chat origin of the app. But maybe it was enough to make them say "can't be that hard, right?"
Facebook's profitability and user base are plunging and it needs to be the next big something in order to appease the shareholders.
I think they're trying to be the next crypto fad by getting in at the ground level and spending a shit loaf of money to hype it up.
I've certainly never heard of anyone using it.. literally ever. And I have a fair few VR-obsessed friends.
How have they spent billions of dollars only to have models worse than The Sims?
like.... honestly where did the money all go????? its gotta be laundering or SOMETHING right??? how do you spend so much and end up with sub xbox360 avatars?
As someone who frequently disassociates, having more of a corporeal form is the opposite of what I want.
