This video makes me want to destroy my computer and all aspects of civilization that have got us to this point. The very core of my being cries out in despair upon watching this cursed experience. It was all a mistake, and it all needs to burn.
No way is this going to catch on. The only way you could make someone use this crap is to plug them in at birth.
I'm not kidding, if I am ever forced to enter the Metaverse I'm burning my social security card, casting down my glasses, and living in the woods forever
Na this is just some moron who threw a few premade models into Unity and strapped on an Oculus to catch the metaverse news cycle.
Going to a virtual gas station to buy virtual gas to put in my virtual car so I can make it to the virtual Walmart
wait, so is this fake groceries for a fake life, or is this just a hilariously shit interface for ordering real life grocery delivery?
lmao wut
this is slower, less convenient, more expensive -for both the business and the customer- , and less accessible than the way they do it now
how high are the people who came up with this shit?
They could use Walmart's current website which hides categories like pasta, breads, and normal shit for "Eat like a Tuscan!", "Holiday Meals", etc.
Also if you search on the Walmart app and there is a huge price differential between store brand and corporate brands they randomly hide the prices on the first page of results to try to trick you.
Love me some unregulated frontier capitalism on the Wild Wild Web 2.x.
So I drive to walmart in my gas guzzling car and drop it off to the service center to get an oil change. Their dot matrix printer spits off a receipt. I'm glad I can drop it off there since the parking lot is packed. I walk around the outside of the building to go inside but their doors are locked. I walk over to the public use VR headsets, lined up like a row of electric charging stations in a bus stop shelter. I briefly wait in line until the attendant directs me to an open VR station. I step around the "motion sickness" trashcan and strap on a heavy and sweaty VR headset. I start the walmart shopping experience, which is all on rails, waiting until I get to bread isle so I can grab a loaf since you have a lot of sandwich meat at home and no bread. All the isles are devoid of people, except for Jan who periodically interrupts to give you and advertisement or try to upsell you when you pick up a product. When my chance finally comes, I reach out for a loaf of honey wheat bread but VR physics flings it across the room, making all the other breads explode in every direction. I'm being pulled out of the bread isle by Jan, the helpful assistant, as I desperately turn around and try to reach for any loaf of bread I can get. The back button showing a message that the action is not available at this time. I accidentally graze a real life person in the VR kiosk next to me while flailing, I quietly apologize, they don't respond. I manage to grab a pack of english muffins. Close enough. I end my shopping experience early, pay with Walmart Pay as an animated drone flys out my muffins. I take off the VR headset and slide my walmart pay credit card in the station and a receipt prints. I get a notice on my phone that my order has been posted and I'm waiting for someone to accept it. Since it is a low value item, I wait until someone is only a few blocks away to accept it. I see a man pull up, get out of his car, walk over to the walmart entrance and slide a card to get inside. After a few minutes he comes out with a half smashed container of 4 raisin muffins and hands it to me. He tells me they were out of english muffins. I tip him 40% and leave to pick up my car.
Watching that video makes me feel like I'm losing my mind. What an obviously bad idea that will never catch on.
How else can they serve us unskippable ads? It has to catch on.
I'm still missing the point of this. I mean, I get why capitalists really want this to happen, but how exactly do they plan on making this catch on enough for them to extract even more profit?
Who wants to replicate their real life experiences in a digital format. My eyes started to glaze over watching this video from how drab this shit is.
Honestly, I don't think they think this will ever be a thing. My best guess is that this video was literally just made to show to shareholders.
Meta will try to force it on us until we grudgingly accept it as "normal", likely. Kind of like what Ford did with cars!
Metaverse is going to morph as a term over time the same way "THE CLOUD" morphed over time. It will eventually become a similar term to "the internet of things" except it will refer to the combining of social media with everyday life. Right now the focus is on the VR but ultimately "metaverse" will become a phrase that means literally just interacting with your iphone screen.
Their goal is interconnecting all media together though under a single social database. This is the real metaverse. A place where you as a consumer and worker have a single identifiable profile.
It will morph into a corporate centralised competitor to fediverse and attempt to establish itself by way of having all the things in it that you need to purchase.
Honestly "the metaverse" is just going to become "the cloud" repackaged, further centralised and further monopolised.
Imagine having access to boundless creativity. The ability to do literally anything you can imagine because you have both the money and the technology behind you to make it real. And crackers make a fucking digital Wal-Mart.
Then again, maybe it's a good thing that it's Zuckerberg making this white bread shit. If they put James Cameron in charge of the metaverse he'd create an alternate reality that's so amazing people would get PTSD from leaving it.
This looks so annoying. It's like the most boring parts of shopping mixed with the most boring video game. Like the reason I like to hold the products is so that I can feel and see them, if i cant do that then why would i bother with the bullshit 3D representations just let me click it off a list.
Counterpoint: not everything the capitalists push on us actually sticks. Remember 3D TVs? Afaik the metaverse is Facebook's desperate attempt to get involved in the retail space. It could work out, I wouldn't put it past them. But it's not a sure thing.
The metaverse will always be a niche thing but the rumbling sound of the cyberlords marching to establish Web 3.0 on the blockchain is very real.
