Your boss shows up to an all company meeting in their custom fursona model they bought using their bonus. You have to wear sunglasses in order to not be blinded by their tiger fursona's bioluminescent stripes
Fun fact: After this video was released, Facebook had to issue a statement admitting that the leg movement that you see was actually mo-cap and the avatars can't do that.
@@XxTheCupidKidxX oh man spore was so good and so bad simultaneously. theres a spiritual successor to it being developed, hoping it wont be ruined by EA greed
I love literally everyone’s reaction went from abject terror of Meta trying to create a new dystopian society under its rule to amused Schadenfreude as the efforts to do so completely failed.
Everyone went from. "Oh no, Facebook is making a cyberpunk dystopia. The end is now!" Too. "Oh my God, this billion dollar corporation can't even make a knock-off vrchat."
@@friendlycanadian3150 I can’t remember if this was in that video, but according to attendees at the annual Meta investors’ meeting ‘ol Marky Mark was in literal tears as he had to admit to angry shareholders that the company losing more than the annual GDP of New Zealand per quarter in order to pivot to a new central product used by only 300,000 people was “behind expectations.”
@carlireland5049 that's pathetic Jesus christ. Imagine being an investor in Facebook, you sold your soul for those dollars and now all your money's going down the drain because all of Facebook can't figure out how to make a vr roblox.
@@friendlycanadian3150 And then realizing that you gave all your money to the sobbing manchild before you. I’d say Meta was the most stupid company of 2022, but Sam Bankman-Fried blew through his Ponzi fund just in time for FTX to declare bankruptcy at the end of that year. And also for SBF himself to transform himself from “the next J.P. Morgan” to “Le Chiffre, but in real life.”
We all know that isn't Zuckerberg - wait, maybe it IS. Can androids exist in the Metaverse? His avatar face isn't metallic, it looks more alive and can smile - unlike his real face.
Capitalism. Facebook is the factory farm shoveling that meaty sata to the actual marketing firms. They're Facebook's _customers_ who know how to use the data.
The worst part about Metaverse isn't that it's a lifeless cash-grab, it's the fact that Mark assumed everyone can afford a VR headset and the systems needed to run a VR game smoothly. Like, imagine your boss sets up a mandatory meeting and its only accessible with something that is financially out of your reach by _miles._
If a 300 dollar headset is “miles” out of your reach you need to find a decent job im 18 and making 25 an hour with full benefits so idk where these claims come from
@@deomodderr that’s not the point I was making. I make over 300 in literally 2 days if you can’t afford a expense that slight every now and then, it’s time to find a different better paying opportunity
I can’t wait until years from now when Mark is dying he creates a giant Easter egg hunt inside the Metaverse and the person who can collect them all first gains all his money and ownership of his company. Except in this version no one is ever even aware the contest exists and there is a lot less emphasize on the 80’s and ancient arcade games.
The Metaverse looks like 2000's Grand Theft Auto cut-scenes. I keep thinking the brunette woman talking to Mark Zuckerberg is Asuka giving me missions lol
The true, largest failure of the metaverse was a simple one, rooted in facebook's obsession with personal data. They made the hilariously incorrect assumption that people in a vr world would want to look like themselves, missing that most people would prefer to be anime girls with massive boobs or scout tf2
It's cause they think that the rest of tech will catch on and make it their culture, but it's so out of touch I don't even think I'd see them adopt it. Cause it's so much effort for very little benefit.
The funniest thing about the legs is that they _had_ legs originally. They removed the legs because of "virtual rape" and people doing lewd gestures. Now they're adding them back because they realize a bunch of floating torsos looks insanely creepy and weird, and they're pretending it's a brand new feature they just came up with. God this whole project is a trainwreck, and it's so much fun to watch.
the floating torsos just remind me of a game i played as a kid called whyville, except it was fine there bc the game was like 15 years old and was 2D so it was charming and not terrifying
That was literally the first thing I thought about when metaverse launched. Then I realized that VR chat has infinite possibilities for animations, maps, characters, and voices. Metaverse advertised itself as a virtual world for real people to communicate with friends.
Even a Mii felt more natural than those metaverse avatars. Even during things like Wii Sports Resort, where they removed the arms and just had the hands floating there, that still looked more lifelike than those crappy metaverse things.
The metaverse originally had just torsos to avoid the gender issue and having skirts vs pants. Also, they didn't want to deal with woke nonsense of progressives playing the victim again. Metaverse chose to go the way of Twitter. Post your pronouns, and play the victim when others don't play by your rules. Imagine wanting to use an avatar with 3 legs just to be a troll. Or wanting to make a bigger bulge like stuff bras. YT, Twitter and Twitch all bent the knee to LGBT. Now metaverse will be forced to follow suit in the name of diversity equity and inclusion. Wait for the furries and weebs (think hentai) etc to want their own individual avatars. Think I'm joking? We went from Pac-Man style emoticons to people both yellow and brown.
That's just a lie. It's not unique. It's Miiverse meets PlayStation Home. Except PlayStation Home had better graphics and that came out almost 14 years ago...
can happen a lot in the art community as well to make up for the fact that some artists are just terrible and don't want to listen to criticism, "it's just my art style" lol
Same. I was about to say it looks like the Xbox 360 avatars which was also 14 years ago. So yea when I first saw Meta ads, I was throughly unimpressed.
My other major problem with the metaverse is how much it feels so "unprofessional" and yet Mark is pushing it to be a work environment. It has the same feeling of adding emojis to confidential documents. Just the whole idea of being cartoons as avatars screams unprofessionalism. And in this day and age, where higher management are forcing subordinates to act more serious and professional while on the job, having avatars has the same feeling as using a cat filter while working. I thought Mark Zuckerberg was a genius since he was a young man able to become a billionnare. But now I don't know how a dumb guy like him was ever to pull that off. He's certainly not as smart as I thought he was.
People have the same reaction to Microsoft's new emojis in Teams. They call it childish and unprofessional, but who in MS cares? Lets change things for the sake of change just to show we are trying to be modern and cool and trendy. Wait, how old is the target audience using Teams? Nevermid.
Employers made a term MMH, which means "make Mark happy" for these metaverse projects. It really shows how out of touch Mark is and what his employees think of him. All in all I'm happy this is happening because i don't want him to make a successful platform again, only to misuse all of our data and then pay a small fine once in a while beacause of it.
This reminds me of when i was working for a dying company and couldnt believe in it but had to go thru the motions. I wonder how many meta employees are just hoping to god their 1m comp packages dont disappear
I remember Netflix on the 360 used to allow you to invite your friends and all your avatars would sit in a little theater and watch Netflix with one person controlling the pause button. That was in 2009.
I have never done that personally, so I don't know if that was a feature at the very first launch or not, but if it is, it dates even further back to 2005. Insane to think about, how old that console is already.
Man, what a time to be alive. Between watching this whole Metaverse train wreck unfolding and watching Elon Musk bankrupt himself by buying Twitter, those past few months almost feel like some kind of cosmic redemption arc of the world against the tech bros of yesteryear. Keep that shit going 😂🎉
Man it feels like two autistic adults bouncing ideas off eachother. It feels like semi autistic Elon and semi autistic Zuckerberg are like, "lets spend millions of dollars inventing a device that makes it easier to eat your food." Feels like everyone is screaming at them, "its called utensils and its already a thing you autistic mother fuckers."
Just barely IMO. That silent throwing confetti animation says it all. Empty soul-less celebrations of nothing in particular for the sake of justification.
No doubt Hollywood is even now working on an animated horror movie. A bunch of teenagers are trapped forever in the Metaverse. The movie's byline: "If you don't have legs, guess what else you don't have?"
The greatest irony of Facebook is that it was hailed as a way to bring humans together but has totally denigrated human connection since it’s inception
I quit using Facebook too- whenever I do glance over at it, I think it’s me but it doesn’t happen anywhere else. I feel huge amounts of disdain for anyone I see posting on there.
@@alwaysyouramanda I only use facebook for marketplace to check out cheap sports cars or maybe some game. I honestly don't recall the last time I posted anything on there and I don't plan on doing so
Tbh I've mostly treated Facebook as a virtual contacts backup, and so it's really had no more effect on me than my phone's default messenger app. Social media only has the power we choose to give it
@I don't fist bump people like you. anyone young enough to care about moving somewhere else already moved off facebook years ago, a lot of the current users are just old and starting to die off
We're in a weird age where it feels like all major organizations, in private and public sectors, are laughably out of touch with their target audiences and consumers.
With gaming, it started in like 2015. With tv series and streaming services it started in 2018. With (American) politics it started in 2019. The whole world in 2020.
Dude, even Ps1 would be insulted by this. We're looking at the worst level game on Atari, almost. It looks like those awful ripoffs of old kids animated shows...
There are a couple of videos of some Meta research about scanning faces with a phone, that look much, much better. With the Quest Pro they could get much better expression too, but that is a very expensive headset. ChatVR full body tracking needs some pretty expensive hardware too. Keeping it to the Quest 2 limitations and supporting a decent number of users in a space is a pretty big constraint. It would be nice if they released some much nicer rendering - even if you can only have 2-3 users. Of course it still has the problem of not having a good use case - cyberspace sounds cool in books and movies, but the reality is definitely lacking.
I think it would work well for telesales & customer service training and coaching. Like they could sell this product widescale to companies like Concentrix and Sitel or even Salesforce
The fact that they have spent millions of not billions on this project, but have a worse product than what any indie studio makes is baffling. It’s like people all over this project are just pocketing all the money and screwing over meta. It’s amazing
The reality of it is likely people pointed out it was stupid, were either ignored or silenced while the managers and suits spin wheels to make the higher ups look like they're producing something of value and when it comes out that it's garbage they take it out on the workers. Ideas rarely come from the people working on it because if you have an idea you're expected to just kind of spin it from the air and demo it on top of keeping with all the regular stuff management wants you to do. And you're usually not rewarded for it. If your idea is good they just steal it and it's not like you'll get rewarded for coming up with something good. So a lot of people will just go with whatever stupid stuff management wants and when they realize it's 100% going to be a garbage fire they are already applying for transfer or new job. A lot of that money was also probably not even spent on development, but instead on marketing the idea to investors.
he’s trying to buyout all other vr technology so he is the sole supplier (monopoly). he isnt holding out he is going all in. evil rich mofo ruining it for everyone like always.
Jesus Christ is the propitiation for the whole world's sins. They that believeth and are baptized (with the Holy Spirit) shall be saved; but they that believeth not shall be damned. Those led by the Holy Spirit do not abide in wickedness. *God is ONE manifesting himself as THREE;* the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit! Bless him! *For these three are one.* As I am led by the Holy Spirit, nothing I state is a lie, but the truth of God. Anyone who tells you differently is misinformed or a liar. They do not know God, nor led by him. Anyone who *claims* to be a Christian and is against what I am doing, and where I am doing it; the Holy Spirit does not dwell within them, they lack understanding. They know not God, read his word, and their religion is in vain. Do not hear them, they will mislead you, the lost cannot guide the lost.
The entire Meta cast of characters are like politicians who have no clue how the internet works and try to appear tech savvy by being obvious poseurs on social media
@@SongokuJidai problem is, no-one wants to invest in a metaverse where one person, that being zuckerberg, owning everything ofc facebook's stock is plummeting-- other companies want a piece of the pie too, they dont wanna be told what to do by zuck
So true. But, his real self isn't human. He invented the meta verse so he could finaly be surrounded by familiar robot/lizard/human hybrid entities. Zuc will never be able to go home, not since his ufo crash. But it melts my heart to see him beginning to be comfortable and socializing with the Earths native inteligent life forms🥺🥺🥺
@@HanziePandsy and metaverse allows those of his brethern who don't pass as well as he does (which is really a low bar) to interact with humans and socialise.
@@appletherapy How is that a slap to anyone when Pokemon Scarlet and Violet look identical? Animal crossing avatars look significantly worse and that was the hit game of 2020. Really is this some "I only watch irl streamers" subculture or what? Have you heard of Vtubers ir is that a new world? The vast majority of people prefer Jermas content before he showed his face. No one wants to see some dudes face online lmao. Its the internet.
@@giffica the whole point is the metaverse is supposed to be real. You can say “animal crossing is worse” but they have legs and feel more expressive than this garbage. Even Minecraft, with only pixels, has multiple layers of customization for the player. (Literally, a top and bottom layer) Metaverse doesn’t matter if it looks crappy
"That's not even as many students in a full classroom." This is sad for many reasons - not the least off which being that 30 students is waaaaaaaaay too many for a single teacher to work with.
The meta-king in his meta-land with his meta-subjects giving Metaverse all the secrets of their meta-minds while the meta-subjects hold meta-festivals and sing meta-songs on the greatness that is Meta while dissidents are severed from their meta-feed Awesome!
He's the youngest person to ever become a billionaire and was known to be a self conscious and socially awkward guy back in college. He's probably been totally consumed by all the yes-men and fake simps in his inner circle who secretly want his money
@@DanielArgh Horizon has already failed. Zuck (and the rest of the world it seems) believes that Meta's metaverse is "the metaverse" which it obviously is not. It's _one of the metaverses_ and it's easily the worst one. It's also the one that develops the slowest because Mark doesn't want muggles to sully his pristine virtual realm... Rec-Room is another metaverse, and it has literally millions of users. VR Chat is another, and it's also fairly popular. Only reason there's anyone in Meta's Horizon is that it comes with the device (although only in NA), and because old people are there to talk about sirius stuff. There aren't any kids in there because the kids know better, so the adults get to be alone... In the shittiest metaverse around.
“Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved. For the metaverse is immortal.”
