This reminds me of the game Oasis seen in Ready Player one, but with all the awkwardness that comes with the kind of social interactions that fb has brought us, minus the game centric experience.
I would really really want to be excited about this, as from a tech point of view it deserves a lot of credit, but unfortunately lately whatever comes from FB makes me think "thanks, but no thanks".
Plus, for some reason when the video started and the female blonde avatar came up on the screen moving slightly up and down very rapidly, I had a sudden increase in heart rate and I felt anxiety all the sudden. That's something really unexpected which I had rarely experienced, so it really put me off.
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Re: Facebook Horizon
#102Here is my marketing content.
"I am already in a world where I feel great. I have a rule. Never touch another man's creation.
New things that interests me are already within me, why would I go out and learn something new to create something which I already have in my brain ?
Ever expanding universe - ? Why would I build an universe in someone else's land while I can trust myself and build in my mind? Because its not creativity. Creativity is only when you bring out your thoughts in form of a material world.
ok ok.
I think thats why I have a pen and paper.
I write.
I draw.
I scribble.
I share to people whom I see face to face.
Not by wearing a digital mask.
With my naturally, many light years developed exo-skin as my mask.
That's how I respect my ancestors and anyone before them. It all reaches till the source of the light which is sun."
With this attitude and mindset of a living organism which knows what and who it is, would you expect me to fall for your trick?
Formatted content is here https://iminui.wordpress.com/2019/09/27/facebook-horizon/
Re: Facebook Horizon
#103So... Second Life in VR, but run by Facebook?
For me, the "but" is enough to completely outweigh any interest in the first part.
Re: Facebook Horizon
#104I hope Google Earth (or similar) does a VR world that maps one to one with the real world, but makes traveling, flying, etc., trivial. Meet friends in the desert, on a cloud, on the Moon, in the oval office, but a virtualized real place. In other words, make it a map of actual reality instead of a fantasy reality. Allow sharable fantasy/historical/speculative overlays, but focus on croudsourcing real details, current conditions, the world as it is.
It could become more of a way to interact with the world than to escape it.
Re: Facebook Horizon
#105This reminds me of Playstation Home[1] but somehow feels worse!
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#106Is it just me or is their intro video disturbing? A world where your significant other is next to you but deep in their own virtual world? Hasn't Facebook done enough to disconnect people from the real world? Given the lengths Facebook has gone through to keep users engaged and addicted to their platform, what's stopping them from doing the same with Horizon?
Maybe it is just me getting old but when I was watching that part when she was talking about "getting out there, trying new things, making your mark", something really deep in me was screaming NOOOO!, this is not right :-/ I was always into tech but this video makes me want to throw all my devices away, move to some old house in abandoned Spanish village and grow my own tomatoes. And the disturbing part is that I am…
> something really deep in me was screaming NOOOO!, this is not right
I though the same. I mean there are some things that can easily exist in virtual world, and it may even be enabling for people who can't leave their houses in a literal way (for many different reasons). But as a default? You can likely try new things in person - but the ad made it seem to be a new thing rather than an alternative experience. I guess I'm opposed to that framing.
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#107Is it just me or is their intro video disturbing? A world where your significant other is next to you but deep in their own virtual world? Hasn't Facebook done enough to disconnect people from the real world? Given the lengths Facebook has gone through to keep users engaged and addicted to their platform, what's stopping them from doing the same with Horizon?
Showing VR users awkwardly ignoring friends who are right next to them does run face-first into a talking point I've heard repeatedly from people who reject VR out of hand.
While, I agree with you 100% that it was a poor choice of theme for the video, I've never been impressed with the talking point. It has always been presented to me as if they were arguing that the telephone was an isolating, anti-social device.
"Imagine you were hanging out with someone, having a good time. And, out of nowhere they pull this little 'device' out of their pocket and press it against the side of their face. Then they start walking around, looking around at nothing, acting you aren't even there and having a conversation with nobody! What kind of jerk would do that? Not me! Not ever!"
You would be a jerk if you suddenly cut off a conversation to call someone else out of the blue. That's why people don't do that! With phones, stepping out to take a call is considered situationally OK. But, that's not (yet) a user story for VR. Instead, the common story is that you have some time to yourself, maybe you'll watch TV or browse the internets. But, instead you go into VR where it is very convenient and easy to hang out and do wacky stuff with random people all over to the world. Hopefully, when VR becomes more common, it will be somewhat less random people and somewhat more friends and family that you'd like to see more often but don't because of physical inconveniences (like being located in a separate cities/countries/continents).
Re: Facebook Horizon
#108I am so over goal-less MMOs with simplistic pastel graphics. We've done this so many times before. How is Horizon any different from Second Life? It's really unclear. Both are ugly. I am a huge fan of the idea of the Matrix, and I don't even think it needs to be gamified to be fun, but the graphics are such a big part of the appeal of VR for me. I would pay a lot of money just for a photorealistic VR house with a bea…
Agree. Instantly felt like "seen it before and it wasn't fun then, so it won't be fun now".
But Dirt Rally on the other hand... That is a different story. VR is great when realism is the goal. Games in zero g environments are cool too.
Re: Facebook Horizon
#109Is it just me or is their intro video disturbing? A world where your significant other is next to you but deep in their own virtual world? Hasn't Facebook done enough to disconnect people from the real world? Given the lengths Facebook has gone through to keep users engaged and addicted to their platform, what's stopping them from doing the same with Horizon?
It basically looks like an intro to a Black Mirror episode...