I'm sure some PM somewhere in Meta is proud it's using that horrid avatar instead of an actual video. But ooft, it looks so goofy on what seems to be a serious conversation.
Their whole metaverse bet seems weirder and weirder by the day.
Their whole metaverse bet seems weirder and weirder by the day.
I'd rather see video or even a still picture of Carmack than this monstrosity.
This is trying to be vaguely human in hand and lip movement and it looks like bad marionette.
Hopefully it gets better but right now I’d rather just listen to the audio.
This is bloody awful quality in visual quality and marketing. You want to show something that works well. This... this does not "work", let alone well.
From the evidence, Meta doesn’t have any.
Safe works when you're selling productivity software, but not when the product is (partially) the art/design/environment.
However talking to the folks there, it’s very much an engineering project manager led environment, and there’s just no value on good art direction.
You can have the best of the best but you need to put them to good use, and Meta clearly isn’t.
So it’s easy to just give in and do the lowered task at hand rather than fight for the high end work they were hired to do.
Then it's will turn into the one true cringe generator.
“Please help me celebrate my Metaversary…”
“Nobody truly appreciates how hard us weebles work to get our Zuckabadges. Next time you see a weeble, give it a ‘/clap’!”
Oh sweet lord this will be horrific.
Also, your colleagues are your “Metamates”. I’m not even kidding.
It was literally just a private instance of facebook. 95% of the posts were basically fluff posts from HR. No content of any substance. So basically linkedin, but less useful, because everyone on there was in the same company and so there was no real networking effect to it either.
I didn't stay at that company very long, for a multitude of reasons.
I’m hoping this is just an expensive example of the Sunk Cost Fallacy because otherwise it’s perplexing and eerie.
Facebook missed the boat on owning an OS or phone, so their only hope in protecting access to their apps is by owning a brand-new platform.
Which means that the company is all-in on VR, regardless of whether or not the result will be any good.
Also, most of us will never work on anything that anyone will ever give a shit about.
Even if this particular project fails, this is mildly more interesting than yet another CRUD app.
The overall bland soulless corporateness of it all is creeping me the fuck out. These presenters are all 100% dead inside.
Anything the VR stuff is doing feels like a "good on paper" awful distraction.
Now, that said, Meta's seems to be floundering a lot for its actual art style, there is no doubt about that!