for it to be mass adopted people would have to want it. This is google glass all over again there is simply no demand and people in practice find the idea confusing and annoying
What people want to use VR for is weird furry sex in surreal environments. But for a wide variety of reasons Corporate American cannot or will not provide weird furry sex in surreal environments. And so we're stuck at this impasse where they know that VR has world changing potential (Everyone comes together in virtual realm to pretend to have weird furry sex), but for cultural and ideological reasons they are blind to the exact nature of that potential.
Life if Facebook wanted to make their "Metaverse" work they'd hire Disney animators to make furry porn avatars and then charge people a shitload of money for them.
You don't start with the furry porn, you start with stylized avatars that allow greater expression instead of aiming for realism. The furry porn comes naturally.
They're constrained to N64-era graphics due to hardware, and look back at what looked good in that era and what looks like garbage.
The point is to integrate the service into people's lives that you can monetize later, instead of starting with a service that even the devs find uninteresting.
FB is pushing for it's use for office meetings, but nobody is going to spend time at home adjusting some uncanny Mii version of themselves in a super-sterile world, whereas if it had the vibrancy of VRChat, people would feel compelled to just out of social pressure, and then it's just an issue of getting them to use free content to keep them engaged.
New marketing strategy: Gift 1000 units to various library maker spaces in large cities. Sponsor experimental art exhibits and STEAM camps which all feature the headsets. Basically, let 1000 flowers bloom. See what people with an interest in the technology actually do with it. See what people react best to. What parts of the tech are flashy and interesting? Because clearly, they have no clue.
They keep their best engineers with the coolest ideas in R&D making world-changing prototypes and then lock those prototypes away under NDAs and copyright bullshit. And this is still all we get.
This shit is such a waste. Of money. Of creativity. Of humanity. You enslave children in the global south to mine the rare earth minerals for all these servers and workstations and cell phones and websites and extract billions of dollars’ worth of value that could have gone to healthcare or infrastructure or education and this is what you do with it? It’s fucking evil. It’s so fucking evil.
New marketing strategy: Gift 1000 units to various library maker spaces in large cities.
This is literally the only reason people use Macs. Back in like the late 80s early 90s Apple gave schools very favorable deals on like Apple IIe computers, so schools fitted out their computer labs with Apples and kids grew up in the Mac environment. It paid off because now people will pay huge premiums for inferior hardware and software packaged as a lifestyle brand.
I think it's not google glass because unlike google they made the mistake of hard commiting, right? They even changed the company name. This shit has the potential to sink the entire ship
for it to be mass adopted people would have to want it. This is google glass all over again there is simply no demand and people in practice find the idea confusing and annoying
What? I thought everyone wanted to hear their uncle's political opinions come from a John Wick avatar as an insidious migraine develops.
it's worse than that their uncle doesn't even want to use this platform to share his political opinions
What people want to use VR for is weird furry sex in surreal environments. But for a wide variety of reasons Corporate American cannot or will not provide weird furry sex in surreal environments. And so we're stuck at this impasse where they know that VR has world changing potential (Everyone comes together in virtual realm to pretend to have weird furry sex), but for cultural and ideological reasons they are blind to the exact nature of that potential.
Life if Facebook wanted to make their "Metaverse" work they'd hire Disney animators to make furry porn avatars and then charge people a shitload of money for them.
I don't think a large enough demographic want furry porn for that to be a viable business strategy justifying several billion dollars of investment
You don't start with the furry porn, you start with stylized avatars that allow greater expression instead of aiming for realism. The furry porn comes naturally.
They're constrained to N64-era graphics due to hardware, and look back at what looked good in that era and what looks like garbage.
look what I don't understand is how providing a service people use to make furry porn will result in a profit of tens of billions of dollars.
that seems like a niche market
The point is to integrate the service into people's lives that you can monetize later, instead of starting with a service that even the devs find uninteresting.
FB is pushing for it's use for office meetings, but nobody is going to spend time at home adjusting some uncanny Mii version of themselves in a super-sterile world, whereas if it had the vibrancy of VRChat, people would feel compelled to just out of social pressure, and then it's just an issue of getting them to use free content to keep them engaged.
New marketing strategy: Gift 1000 units to various library maker spaces in large cities. Sponsor experimental art exhibits and STEAM camps which all feature the headsets. Basically, let 1000 flowers bloom. See what people with an interest in the technology actually do with it. See what people react best to. What parts of the tech are flashy and interesting? Because clearly, they have no clue.
They keep their best engineers with the coolest ideas in R&D making world-changing prototypes and then lock those prototypes away under NDAs and copyright bullshit. And this is still all we get.
This shit is such a waste. Of money. Of creativity. Of humanity. You enslave children in the global south to mine the rare earth minerals for all these servers and workstations and cell phones and websites and extract billions of dollars’ worth of value that could have gone to healthcare or infrastructure or education and this is what you do with it? It’s fucking evil. It’s so fucking evil.
This is literally the only reason people use Macs. Back in like the late 80s early 90s Apple gave schools very favorable deals on like Apple IIe computers, so schools fitted out their computer labs with Apples and kids grew up in the Mac environment. It paid off because now people will pay huge premiums for inferior hardware and software packaged as a lifestyle brand.
the Mac environment is just UNIX though it's available easily and for free
I think it's not google glass because unlike google they made the mistake of hard commiting, right? They even changed the company name. This shit has the potential to sink the entire ship
yeah but they are still not going to succeed in getting this going