Fortnite shows that there are people interested in living in a game enviroment where they are surrounded by recognizable brands. But Meta’s infomercial vibe with bland, low budget, dead-eyed characters, which are so sanitized they didn’t even have lower bodies, is not anything close to anything that anyone wants.
The weird thing is they actually do have the tech for photorealistic avatars. But they didn’t implement because if they did then inevitably people would use it for “virtual encounters” which Facebook don’t want to deal with understandably. But at the same time if that’s what people want to do with it and you’re not letting them that’s a problem.
This tech won’t work if it’s run by one boring ass company.
Engineers make Star Trek tech because people want to live in Star Trek. No one (besides Zuck) wants to live in Ready Player One.
Fortnite shows that there are people interested in living in a game enviroment where they are surrounded by recognizable brands. But Meta’s infomercial vibe with bland, low budget, dead-eyed characters, which are so sanitized they didn’t even have lower bodies, is not anything close to anything that anyone wants.
The weird thing is they actually do have the tech for photorealistic avatars. But they didn’t implement because if they did then inevitably people would use it for “virtual encounters” which Facebook don’t want to deal with understandably. But at the same time if that’s what people want to do with it and you’re not letting them that’s a problem.
This tech won’t work if it’s run by one boring ass company.
Purity is the enemy of innovation, got it.
Almost across the board, new technology is used to spread two things: religious dogma and porn.
And the farmer’s almanac, but mostly the Bible and porn.