Yes, what I want to experience in an alternate reality is something that feels like an alcoholics anonymous meeting, only with less charm and no donuts. - ThreadSky

zenofdesign.com • 9 days ago

Yes, what I want to experience in an alternate reality is something that feels like an alcoholics anonymous meeting, only with less charm and no donuts.

Reposted from Nathie

This is Meta’s brand new ad for Horizon Worlds. Not sure how I’m supposed to feel about it.

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animationmerc.bsky.social•9 days ago

I wonder if people at Meta tried to make this creative and high quality and the corporate vampires of business sucked the fun out, or if it was just always aspiring to be this dumb.

animationmerc.bsky.social•9 days ago

If I'm at a virtual AA meeting, I fully expect to be sitting with a giant robot, a kaiju, someone who dresses like they're in the Matrix, at least one furry and some kind of talking, inanimate object.

Have these people ever been on the internet?!

kerravon.bsky.social•9 days ago

I have seen a low-budget "Ratatouille" knockoff less cringey than this thing.

firtoz.greybox.app•9 days ago

Someone high up in Meta really wants to push Horizon Worlds but everyone else in Meta hates it so this is their expression of cognitive dissonant self sabotage.

zenofdesign.com•9 days ago

I mean, it looks like anti-fun but have you also considered that it's graphics look two decades out of date and the (admittedly realistic) nature of the chat is absolutely incomprehensible and its impossible to follow the conversation?

zenofdesign.com•9 days ago

1) If you're going to show people in an alternate reality, for fuck's sake, make it aspirational.
2) "Like a text chat room but way shittier" is not a compelling sales pitch.

xemu.bsky.social•9 days ago

In fact, it's anti-aspirational? Like in a way that kind of has to be intentional from someone. You don't put out a product that looks horrible and implies anyone using it is a absolute social outcast and loser by accident. I don't see the angle though...

zenofdesign.com•9 days ago

At its core the problem is that they as an organization want to make an online experience that replaces and augments reality when what people wants is to escape it.

hyacinth-girl.bsky.social•9 days ago

it baffles me that they spent ten billion dollars to make a bad MMO that isn't quite up to the level of Second Life.

seriously guys give me just one percent of that and i will put together a team and make you something *good*

satyric.bsky.social•9 days ago

If they’d taken a contract to design “the most banal hell dimension for the free tier of the singularity” this would be a total success.

zenofdesign.com•9 days ago

Every single game that shipped on a CD in a cereal box back in the 90s was more charming and authentic than this.

satyric.bsky.social•9 days ago

It’s kind of fascinating how bad the body language is. The torso and arms don’t seem to belong to the same organism. All have the same awkward resting arm position.
People rig and create better animations for youtube vtubers every day. They couldn’t hire one?

zenofdesign.com•8 days ago

I just noticed there are no shadows. Not even drop shadows! So even in the long distance shots things feel floaty and out of place.

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