Re:Mark Zuckerberg’s new Metaverse selfie is so bad people c...
by PaulHoule on Thursday August 18, 2022 @09:33AM
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Zuckerberg should peel off $5 billion and buy a clue.
What's so strange about VR is that the ideas have been around long enough to be really old. There was Plato's cave, then there was the 1951 Whirlwind computer at MIT that was designed for real-time simulation (flight simulators.) Jean Baudrillard wrote about video games in his 1979 book On Seduction.
Simply to name it requires a certain separation from present art: why isn't Roblox the metaverse? why isn't Minecraft the metaverse? what about Grand Theft Auto? I remember getting into an argument with another graduate student in the 1990s about the relative merits of VRML 2 with contemporary video games such as Quake that were much more sophisticated. This is not a form of short-sightedness you can get away with in 2022, consumers will compare Horizon Worlds to what they are used to in video games and it not just falls short but is embarrassingly bad.
What's so strange about VR is that the ideas have been around long enough to be really old. There was Plato's cave, then there was the 1951 Whirlwind computer at MIT that was designed for real-time simulation (flight simulators.) Jean Baudrillard wrote about video games in his 1979 book On Seduction.
Simply to name it requires a certain separation from present art: why isn't Roblox the metaverse? why isn't Minecraft the metaverse? what about Grand Theft Auto? I remember getting into an argument with another graduate student in the 1990s about the relative merits of VRML 2 with contemporary video games such as Quake that were much more sophisticated. This is not a form of short-sightedness you can get away with in 2022, consumers will compare Horizon Worlds to what they are used to in video games and it not just falls short but is embarrassingly bad.