They aren’t sympathetic with the gaming market, which is the one place where they’re winning.
Meta products have me wondering what is up with them. I find the interface for uploading pictures to the unfounded Mastodon, of all places, it easier to use than Instagram [1] and less cringe.
Cringe is the least of the problems Horizon Worlds has [2]. No doubt VR needs authoring tools that make it accessible to the rest of us, but Horizon Worlds isn’t it. For one thing you have to build everything with awkward manual computational solid geography tools and can’t import resources from normal tools. I want to import my photos but they want to conserve texture space in the MQ3, never mind the MQ2 that the cheap consumer really wants to buy. McDonald’s has to be able to put a Coca-Cola logo on the cups and they probably have a PNG or a EPS or something but no dice. Maybe if people can import resources they can violate copyright or something.
The ‘social VR’ model fits with the OnlyFans business plan but any real business can’t afford to post real employees to serve visitors. Is the answer to create realistic NPCs like we see in science fiction VR games like Shangi-La Frontier or just something that doesn’t involve interacting with humanoids? Horizon Worlds isn’t it.
[1] Ok, Insta has filters and stuff I don’t use because I have DxO — all I need is speed, drag-and-drop and many little affordances that Bluesky and Mastodon have because those sites don’t think “we’re number one, why try harder?”
[2] Does Instagram’s mainstreaming of cringe (the blond girls who wear the same slinky dress and stand by the same squat rack at the same gym but might really hail from Russia, Ukraine or Myanmar) make them cringe-blind?
They aren’t sympathetic with the gaming market, which is the one place where they’re winning.
Meta products have me wondering what is up with them. I find the interface for uploading pictures to the unfounded Mastodon, of all places, it easier to use than Instagram [1] and less cringe.
Cringe is the least of the problems Horizon Worlds has [2]. No doubt VR needs authoring tools that make it accessible to the rest of us, but Horizon Worlds isn’t it. For one thing you have to build everything with awkward manual computational solid geography tools and can’t import resources from normal tools. I want to import my photos but they want to conserve texture space in the MQ3, never mind the MQ2 that the cheap consumer really wants to buy. McDonald’s has to be able to put a Coca-Cola logo on the cups and they probably have a PNG or a EPS or something but no dice. Maybe if people can import resources they can violate copyright or something.
The ‘social VR’ model fits with the OnlyFans business plan but any real business can’t afford to post real employees to serve visitors. Is the answer to create realistic NPCs like we see in science fiction VR games like Shangi-La Frontier or just something that doesn’t involve interacting with humanoids? Horizon Worlds isn’t it.
[1] Ok, Insta has filters and stuff I don’t use because I have DxO — all I need is speed, drag-and-drop and many little affordances that Bluesky and Mastodon have because those sites don’t think “we’re number one, why try harder?”
[2] Does Instagram’s mainstreaming of cringe (the blond girls who wear the same slinky dress and stand by the same squat rack at the same gym but might really hail from Russia, Ukraine or Myanmar) make them cringe-blind?
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