I'm getting Oasis vibes from Ready Player One. Life imitating art?
Facebook Horizon
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#12I'm getting Oasis vibes from Ready Player One. Life imitating art?
I think it's inevitable. Just look at Second Life
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#13I'm getting Oasis vibes from Ready Player One. Life imitating art?
Metaverse from snow crash.
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#14Facebook already owns your face from a 2D space perspective. Just go ahead and give them literally a high-fidelity 3D pointmap of your face. What could go wrong?
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#15I'm getting Oasis vibes from Ready Player One. Life imitating art?
Metaverse from snow crash.
Yeah Michael Abrash (and obviously tons of others) explicitly mention it as an inspiration for why they are working on this stuff:
https://www.oculus.com/blog/introducing-michael-abrash-oculu...
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#16I am instantly thinking that they’ll be gathering every move people make in this world and use this for more ad targeting.
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#18I wonder whether those legless avatars fall into the "uncanny valley":
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#19On the Internet, you can be anything you want. Facebook thinks most people will want to be a generic floating body with a cartoon human head. They missed the point - self expression is what people want.
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#20Looks cool, but I distrust Facebook too much for this
Same...have been waiting for someone to develop this for years after reading Snowcrash but am disappointed that it's Facebook who did it.