There's no other pitch here. It's literally just some instagram screenshots floating in a near-featureless room you can slowly click around. This seems like the sorta thing you'd make if you've completely lost touch with your users and are just throwing spaghetti the wall as your PM directs you.
Either way it’s totally something that came from a marketing budget not an engineering/ product budget… which is much smaller.
they are not competitive with 20 year old Playstation 2 software
Have you tried one? Nowadays they certainly are. Sure, you may encounter mobile-class graphics in some games, however these headsets can also leverage a gaming PC to stream higher quality titles as well.
Not to mention immersion. The PS2 simply cannot offer an immersive experience even close to what a VR headset can these days, not for most of today’s youth anyways. This is especially true when you factor in online gaming and other social aspects.
To suggest otherwise requires some strong nostalgia glasses I think.
anyway, the ps2 stuff was more fun and had more players. good luck
I'm sure you didn't click through the details of the tweet you shared (is it still a re-tweet if it's off twitter?) but the demo actually runs in browser and the location is algorithmically generated based on your stated interests.
The environment in the example looks like it was made in Horizon, their VR sandbox world-building game. They surely could have made it look fancier by using actual 3D modeling tools that games actually would, but this "VR Mainstreet" has the potential to be re-created by anyone using simple (IMO) tools they provide. If the goal of "VR Mainsteet" is that brands can make their own storefront in VR, showing what they can do with "non professional" seems like a good ad for the brands building things. The injection of insta-posts is because its trying to share the insta-profiles of small businesses. Its a weird demo, but its a web-rendered demo so it seems fine to me.
It's just an ad, they only have so many resources to dedicate to it. Marketing teams do what they have budget for, this "quality" seems more an MBA issue than a technical issue.
Ps: It sure is fun to shit on meta lately :)
PPS: It would be really cool, and an exciting development if they got Horizon to run in browser, it could make it easier for people to develop 3D rendered worlds and share them.