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.
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.