According to Mark Zuckerberg, what do you think is Meta’s “most requested feature” on the roadmap to the VR revolution? Avatar without the cold, dead eyes of a killer (opens in new tab)? Rehire the fired ethics team of Meta (opens in new tab)? Score?
Wrong, wrong, wrong again. At his Meta Connect event yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage in the form of his digital double. his august selfie (opens in new tab)— He made it clear that people obviously want one thing, and only one thing: legs.
Legs coming soon! are you excited? 🎉 pic.twitter.com/SB6qSepKm4October 11, 2022
Meta’s Horizon avatars will be bipedal at some point later next year as part of a big update that will make everyone’s avatars as beautiful as the one Zuckerberg was using yesterday. But for now, those of us outside the Meta C suite are stuck in our old legless avatars, watching Zuckerberg twirling and loitering on stage, telling us has only stupid arms and hands.
It took Meta this long to conquer the bottom 50% of the human body because legs are hard to understand in a standalone VR headset. In his presentation, Zuckerberg gave an example of sitting with his feet under a desk (I can’t wait to do this in a fully virtual world with limitless imagination). what are they doing That’s why Meta says they need to build an AI model that predicts what their feet are doing underneath.
There was a surreal feel to the whole announcement, but that’s not out of character for Meta (opens in new tab)Much like Zuckerberg’s selfie a few months ago, the internet is quickly debating the inherent weirdness of dedicating a photo of yourself to yourself. of $300 billion companies (opens in new tab) A press event to announce the legs.
“Avatar has feet” due to rapid innovation in virtual reality space https://t.co/IJiYA5uaM0October 11, 2022
The people in the background here have no legs. A meta-leg that is granted only in certain seniority ranks. Feet are rights or privileges. Mark https://t.co/RyYxsG0HGYOctober 12, 2022
[looking down at my lap]myself: [chanting] Legs, Legs – Friends Wearing Pants: Legs, Legs Group Chat with Mark Zuckerberg: [slamming the table]: Feet, feet, feet, feet, feet, feet, feet, feet, feet, feet, feet, feet, feet, feet, pic.twitter.com/Qtane9tvTNOctober 11, 2022
To be fair to old Zach, Meta Connect wasn’t always 100% all-legged, but it would have been a lot more fun that way. The company also took the opportunity to announce Meta Quest Pro. (opens in new tab)a $1,500 VR headset conceptually designed for the heavy-duty corporate type, but who just wants to use it to play games. is to cover the cost of
