Facebook's Horizon virtual world is flopping hard.
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I've been wondering what Facebook is doing for a long time now. Who thought a second world clone from a censorious and uptight corporation like Facebook would go anywhere? Let alone one where you tie all your activity to your real world ID.
Especially considering that both Facebook and VR seem to be slowly dying. Facebook feels like AOL 20 years ago.
SecondLife was more popular precisely because you could create giant floating penises to annoy your neighbors. People also made scripts that spammed the continuous creation of giant floating penises all over the world like a virus. Also nobody complained if you made virtual copies of real characters and IPs like Mario or Mickey Mouse. VRChat is famous for that too. But muh "copyright infringements". Something like this can't win unless they legally stifle the competition.
They got lucky that they released their products at the right time.
Second life released during a time when the Internet was still kind of "anything goes" and people didn't get offended over any little thing.
VRChat released in time for the height of the VR hype, when every gaming Youtuber did at least some VR bits.
That's not the case anymore for Facebook.
ChilloutVR competes with more features and by allowing NSFW content, though they refuse to enforce fair use laws when it comes to ripped player models from videogames and have banned them as a result; at least third party fan models are allowed.
This means you can design your own Star Wars player model from scratch or use someone else's third party model with their permission, but you cannot use anything ripped from an official videogame such as Star Wars Battlefront. I would also be prohibited from ripping GTA V multiplayer assets and reconstructing my player model from them.
Remember the unicorn birthing process? Or the time falling dicks arrived live on TV?
People don't want to socialize in VR. The VR market is all shooting galleries, rhythm games and porn. People just want to play Gun Club VR, Beat Saber and beat their saber.
A note to Zuck and the rest of the billionaire class: people would rather be miserable in the real world than live in your utopian fantasy. But, of course, if you make them too miserable. . . .
Its shit graphics... plus it has rules. Something like this shouldnt have any rules. It should be wild west where anything can happen. Otherwise its sterile and dead. Of course facebook and most corps want rules and to be control freaks. Why bother with this metaworld if its the same as real life??
Also... lame ass stuff like women claiming to be raped in a metaverse game didnt help prevent metaverse from being lame and woke as fuck.
second life did it, vr chat did it
The technology just isnt there yet, vr goggles are just too awkward. No product or service is worth staring at a screen 2 inches from your eyeball.
If the facebook csuite had half a brain between them they would have bought actblizz. Then built WoW VR as the "killer app" first. THEN leverage that userbase into their other products.
Vr goggles are focused at six feet (or something like that). The screen is physically 2 inches in front of your eyes but optically it is six feet in front of your eyes.
The fov and resolution is just way too shitty for VR. It would take 16k per eye and at least pimax level fov for me to consider vr a great and polished experience. Even then after so many years 99% of vr games are sadly shitty arcade games or so short you can still refund them after finishing them.
And to think that I bought all that real estate there.
It's not a loss until you sell. HODL!
I mean we have a lot of the basic tech needed (omnidirectional floors to run on, haptic suits) but they are very basic and VERY expensive so it'll still be considerable amount of years before we have a full dive system. That and Facebook offering a censored version isn't appealing.
And just remember if we reach that point with the tech where it's affordable, DON'T buy any full dive games made by AAA studios especially Bethesda, EA or Activision unless you want a worse SAO experience...
Of course it is.
It's brand new and yet looks worse and is less capable than Second Life, which has been stagnant at 40k concurrent users in 2007 and has stagnated there ever since.
Expensive facebook with more steps and creepy Zuckerbot avatars
Sticker: 35% more rules!