This, the concept of a Metaverse pretty much requires that it comes into existence spontaneously and that it's made by other users. If you leave it up to one company, you completely lack the creativity and freedom that a "metaverse" needs.
Something unintentionally disturbing about the ad is how the people could be interacting with their loved ones in the same room as them but are choosing to ignore them.
Limmy is totally right, VR headsets are just that wee bit too inconvenient, to the same degree that some people can't even be fucked to play a game. Like you get home from work and you just cant be arsed to even grab a controller. It's one of the reasons phones are so revolutionary, you just pull it out, on the internet anywhere in a second. lowest barrier of entry there is, and the most popular technology of all time
Yeah it's true. I've got one of those gaming steering wheels but whenever I feel like using it I always hesitate, just because of the inconvenience of locking it into place and plugging it all in etc. It seems stupid but it's so true.
I've got psvr, and I quite like it but 99.9% of the time I cannot be arsed to set it up. It's not put away either, it's sitting right there ready to just grab and use, but it's still too inconvenient.
Facebook have absolutely fucked it with the Metaverse, it genuinely might sink them the amount of money they're pouring into this totally flawed and useless concept that nobody asked for
The metaverse isn't a risky business venture it's Facebook making sure that even in a ready player one scenario that you won't be able to escape facebook. If metaverse fails and takes VR with it, that's a win for Facebook.
Facebook changing their name to Meta and then announcing this load of crap that no one wants, has a bit of a whiff of money laundering or some such shadiness
It should also be pointed out how eagerly they use the "large black woman saying 'mmmm-hmmm!' for comic relief in contrast to the whiteness of the protagonist" trope, which by now is extremely tired and just plain unfunny in the most generous interpretation. That combined with the attitude that not knowing the difference between Australia and New Zealand, and not caring, is somehow funny or cute makes this whole thing feel so strangely inhuman. (Not to mention the floating torsos.) All the "friends" are caricatures: lady who drinks special coffee, guy with a 'super rad' mustache, that quirky guy from 'Daeuwn Eundeh (hehe)'. None of the people in the video feel like real people. And none of the footage of the fake versions of these fake people is real footage of the actual product! It's a nightmare. Also, take a second to question the use of antiquated futurist imagery as the metropolitan backdrop in some sort of attempt to convey: "This is it. The future you all dreamed about is right here, right now." while still feeling old. It's just missing some flying cars whizzing by to a Raymond Scott soundtrack. Maybe it's meant to be tongue-in-cheek but I hate it nonetheless.
May 2023: "Meta's Reality Labs unit reported a $3.99bn operating loss in first-quarter results posted this month, after losing $13.72bn last calendar year. "
Am I the only one who remembers PlayStation Home? All this metaverse shite is just exactly that but with a new coat of hype paint on it and all the extra nft blockchain bollocks added on.
I do remember that. There have been many attempts to create 'virtual hangout spaces', which I guess VR has the best shot at actually achieving. But it's like Limmy said, people want to interact with the real world while hanging out online or whatever, e.g. I can eat, drink, check the weather out my window while chatting to friends on Discord.
PlayStation home where you pay for outfits and accessories and watch 15 thirsty teen boys chat up the one glamorous girl who was probably a 50 year old bloke in reality
agreed with Limmy about the inconvenience, I bought a headset, which I wanted for like 2 years and got half life alyx. one of the best gaming experiences I had getting through that game for 2 weeks, but since that, it's been sitting in my closet in the box it came in because; can't be arsed
The engineers nailed it but developers can't seem to nail it with the games. Art experiences and educational stuff have ended up being my favorite VR times. We'll see where it goes when Sony dumps money into their next gen PSVR
I had this exact same reaction lol, got it in November and got a bunch of VR games in the winter sale, played some really cool games, including alyx, for a bit then got bored cause of the hassle. Couple weeks into 2022 and I remembered that Elite Dangerous runs in VR, then had one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had. I think the nature of VR is short term fun followed by a month or two break until the next fun VR thing comes along.
Same. And hell, even now that Alyx is getting a sequel, I won't be playing it- Why? Because I already played Alyx and the sequel looks like the same game with new maps. No thanks.
@@commanderpanda9356 man, since writing this comment I've played one VR game. the medium is never going to take off if it isn't streamlined for accessibility in a major way. and I get that the Quest doesn't need a PC to run games but the battery life is just kind of pathetic for the price tag and it's considered a cheaper option.
They plans for a peaceful place… Gonna end up being a packed server of everyone around that fountain shouting racist stuff and music blasting music down there mic😂
The big issue with VR is that it almost always makes first time users feel motion sick, and the fact that you have to be standing up to properly use it raises the barrier of entry a lot among many other things. It's almost doomed to fail, i know that people don't want to have to deal with that, and when they do deal with all of that their reward will be a virtual hellscape of ADs beamed directly into their eyeballs
Really? doomed to fail? VR is literally just getting started, the amount of people with VR headsets and games being developed for it has been growing exponentially with a particularly massive boom in the past year or so With development of VR technology is at an all time high the tech is only going to get better and more accessible over time, those barriers for entry are going to be some of the first things to go
I think the killer use-case for VR is for people with disabilities. There are people who are bedridden for whatever reason, or who can have minimal human contact because of immune disorders, and being able to meet their friends in VR is a life-changer. But VR Chat already does that, so I have no idea what the Metaverse would add.
Horizons is definitely a ripoff of VRChat, the only thing that I’d say that Horizons does is that it’s mainstream. VRChat seems to only attract children or a certain type of avant-garde individuals. Horizons seems to be a roll of the dice with the general public. The app itself is pretty boring but I’ve met some cool people in it.
I was a Sony rep when 3D TVs were a thing. It was difficult to sell 3D when you thought it was awful, and a million miles away from being a decent experience.
Had a similar experience working as a tech support agent for a simulated cycling fitness MMO called Zwift. The game's an absolute mess of spaghetti code and something breaks every single patch, meanwhile I have to pretend in front of the customers that it's worth paying 15 dollars per month (and spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on 'smart bike' equipment) to have the privilege to play it.
Dont know if this has been mentioned but the hand motion with the coffee cup mimics drawing out the metaverse infinity logo lol if you're into your subliminal marketing
The moment she air quoted "no limits" to suggest how stunning and brave she was (she got a moustache?? Crazyyyyy!!)... crow bar to the back of the head. IRL. Whoops... whoops, whoops!
If that woman is in that plane imagine the digital terrorism. Woman gets jump scared from plane attack falls down simultaneously cracking neglected child’s head and injuring herself in the process.
Does anyone look at the metaverse and actually think this a good thing? Or actually excited about it? Looks like absolute hell on earth to me. Trapped in a digital Facebook full of fake people pretending to be something they are not. It's actually horrific and depressing as fock that people think this is anything but a dystopian nightmare.
If I still have to breath by myself in the metaverse without the intervention of a respiratory machine, then I'm out, I don't care. I'd sooner go live in a shack on a beach by the woods if I actually have to breath by myself.
My interest in VR took a steep dive right around the time Horizons released. My ability to physically handle VR took a hit too. Pretty impressive, really.
@@delgat000 Haven't played it and don't plan to. It's the idea that put me off. (The bit about physical comfort is just a joke, to be clear. That's just a coincidence... or maybe psychological.)
I definitely think that the indelible harm caused to children from growing up on social media platforms will in no way be replicated in a corporate-captured, mind-reading, never-ending headfuck VR universe. And I'd like to make it public here that I for one welcome our new insect overlords, and I'm very sorry about all the wanking.
VR is still a novelty just like the Wii and 3D glasses. It's not ergonomic or practical enough for day to day use or meet the needs of the space you occupy. They are still not practical. Gaming, especially console gaming just needs a space where you can hold a controller and see a screen.
It's not a gaming environment except in some desultory team-building exercise sense. Limmy's missus nailed it when querying the depiction of women. It is being marketed as an alternative to Zoom to HR managers who are being asked to sell WFH to downsizing corporations.
I want VR to be like a living dream, the feeling of endless possibilities but while you're awake. With all the sleeve that comes with it. I hate the puritanical shite.
Good for racing games and flying games because it gives you a sense of space that playing on a monitor just can't really match. But I don't want to talk to people on it, using cutesy avatars like they used to have on the Wii.
I think there are gems that show what VR can be. Specifically, Half Life: Alyx Was absolutely addicted to that, was a long while before I went back to non-vr games after that. It is inconvenient though, it’s alright if you’ve got plenty of space, but I had my PC in my living room to be able to play Alyx. I still use it all the time for sims though, driving and flying n stuff. Star Wars squadrons is ace, Dirt rally 2 as well.
Hey everyone, feel more isolated than you do normally and escape into a place where you don’t have to deal with skill strengthening issues. God help us
That's exactly what it feels like In fact the creator of second life commented on Meta when zuck announced it Second life guy said something along the lines of "you can't possibly moderate a game this closely unless everyone provides some real world identification and nobody wants to do that" Paraphrasing but yeah
I wonder if the "joysticks" are being marketed accurately. It is probably like the Wii Sports thing where you realised after five minutes that tiny economical movements while sitting quite still was all that was needed to interact with the games.
Did anyone else have a book of short stories called "The Web 2020"? I think it was published late 90s/early 00s, it was a kids'/ young adult book of stories about advanced VR games. It made it sound quite exciting and dangerous.
The part with the Kiwi in the art gallery had me pissing myself. I'm a Brit that lives in the UK and the yanks ALWAYS call me either Australian or Scottish..
I struggle to see how you could paint something like that in VR tbh, like unless they have some really nice controllers, I don't know how you'd get the accuracy.
When I spent some time in the metaverse there was different entry-points, some people just used their phone and jumped into VR to puppet & express themselves during heated moments. There was a class disparity as well, who had what equipment. Hands were a big deal
Realistically if this is ever released, its going to go down the same route as all new releases in modern times - completley barebones and buggy which they'll fix with updates. Marketing is doing all the heavy lifting trying to get people on board in the early stage . The people that will actually buy and get invested in this crap are going to buy the likes of NFTs , skins, DLC and what-have-you thinking that everyone is going to be intested in what your avatar looks like... What VR should be is being much more specific (rather than this nintentdo looking cartoon world). I'd rather VR tech being used for more specific things... Imagine meeting with your mates in real life and go to a golf simulator, or a dedicated racing simulator... Enough of this pish that you can do everything you ever dreamed about and will make you infinately happier with a VR headset that you can buy in Argos - its all marketing wank.
So true. They need to nail down a specific idea. Cos you watch these ads and you come out still wondering what you actually do in horizon or the metaverse.
All releases in modern times , did you ever hear the story of the original pong. It was knocked up as a demo by an engineer who was planning to expand and develop it further, marketing execs were like fuck that, it works, ship it,
Yeah it's a fair point. I love my noise-cancelling headphones but even there I consider it a nuisance having to pause/unpause anything I'm doing whenever I need to listen to something or someone around me. I don't see the same happening for vision.
A good advert would note what that the majority want VR for, in order of importance... 1) VR Pron (includes Nintendo rumble pack) 2) VR Crime to practice for real life scenarios 3) VR Gambling 4) VR fps and horror games that will eventually give genuine PTSD
Remember the one where they pretended you could be friends with a little boy? Charlie Brooker's reaction to that was hilarious enough that it got him in trouble
Wait, are you telling me that in this game the characters have no legs the whole time? They couldn't be bothered to make a walking animation? PS1 games could do that.
24:20 To some Americans, everything south of America is Mexico. If you're from Columbia? Mexican. You're from Brazil? Nope, you're Mexican, doesn't matter that you speak Portuguese and not Spanish. Cuban? Nope, you're Mexican. And God forbid you're a member of a Native tribe. Nobody even bothers asking what tribe you're from, unless they're Native as well. Woman in the advert was spot-on with her reaction, too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Isn't that New Zealand guy playing VR in a room with a fish tank asking for the glass to be broke? If you move your arms around fast enough, I don't get how the wall warning boundaries that show up will stop you in time.
Arguably AI did takeover our lives though. Maybe not the AI that people were expecting, but it is part of the reason I am watching this video right now.
To be fair we've had VR Chat for years now and that is probably 'the internet' in an online 3D world. These latest headsets that don't need external sensors are a big deal, don't know how good the Quest 2 is but the original Rift you have to properly set up most times and then have the room to move around. I think VR will remain a niche, I'm not sure it will die off. Headsets are still big.
I personally dont think itll take off because people want easy to digest media, and VR right now is a massive pain for people to even get let alone use.
You can't even use it without getting dizzy or hurting your eyes unless you use VR regularly, which most people won't just because it's a pain in he butt to use. And that's a never ending cycle.
If I can watch UFC events live in VR where there are dozens of 3D VR cameras to chose from in the stadium/next to/above the octagon - I’ll buy it right away.
My problem with this metaverse thing is that is basically Facebook's reaction to criticism about serious problems with their entire platform. They seem to think that making it 3D is going to fix things, or at least distract attention from the real problems.
I dont understand why your average non-gaming normie will suddenly want to put on a clunky accessory so that they can game online. I mean, what's the attraction?
I don't understand why a gamer would want to stick a head set on and interact with a bunch of dweebs that probs aren't the same age or gender as their avatars.
@@ConchTheGabberGreer nah, high fidelity VR is pretty amazing. PSVR2 will change peoples outlook on VR as the software it moves beyond the low budget indie stuff
Imagine a shite version of VR Chat, filled with daft mums and heavily moderated content. That's going to be Metaverse.
Right!? All it takes is a swear word and you're IP banned and you've just wasted money on a daft headset :))
This comment made be lol cheers
There are multiple metaverses - FBs is one among many.
This, the concept of a Metaverse pretty much requires that it comes into existence spontaneously and that it's made by other users. If you leave it up to one company, you completely lack the creativity and freedom that a "metaverse" needs.
@@DW-rs1pr same :))
Something unintentionally disturbing about the ad is how the people could be interacting with their loved ones in the same room as them but are choosing to ignore them.
This already happens. Teenagers in particular are glued to their phones when others are talking to them and in the same room
It's honestly not much different from headphones
Go look at any cafe or restaurant. We’re already there…
Sad reality, isn’t it folks?
Nothing new. Just look at old cartoons where the dad is always reading a paper so he doesn't have to interact with his family 😁
Shoutout to the developers who are making bank making something that they know absolutely no one will use.
"Horizons isn't about rules"
We'll see about that, when everybody gets banned for salt mining XD
Meanwhile Microsoft announces to crack down on _any_ sign of toxicity and collaborates with their competitors for cross-platform bans.
The second someone says "shit" in there, all bets are off xD
Yeah how are they going to moderate it? They can't even moderate facebook.
@@gomey70 some completely unreliable algorithm most likely
Habbo Hotel learned this the hard way.
I wonder if the person playing the woman insisted that she never take off the VR set in the ad so that people don't recognise her
Lmaooo
Good point.
Nah its just that the moment she took off the goggles, normies would see the unsightly red marks around her face.
Limmy is totally right, VR headsets are just that wee bit too inconvenient, to the same degree that some people can't even be fucked to play a game. Like you get home from work and you just cant be arsed to even grab a controller. It's one of the reasons phones are so revolutionary, you just pull it out, on the internet anywhere in a second. lowest barrier of entry there is, and the most popular technology of all time
Yeah it's true. I've got one of those gaming steering wheels but whenever I feel like using it I always hesitate, just because of the inconvenience of locking it into place and plugging it all in etc. It seems stupid but it's so true.
I've got psvr, and I quite like it but 99.9% of the time I cannot be arsed to set it up. It's not put away either, it's sitting right there ready to just grab and use, but it's still too inconvenient.
@@mattstanbridge get a Quest 2 and see the difference.
@@Art-Sin I've been thinking about it but I'm wondering if a quest 3 or updated quest 2 is coming out this year.
Quest 2 is close, IF there was 30 games as good as half life alyx.
this corporate shite will just be adverts forever plugged directly into your eyes
it's just 'Ralph breaks the Internet' movie but now being realised by Facebook.
They'll make you interact with the advert too, to make sure you see it
Why does the artstyle look like every universally panned childrens movie to come out in the last 10 years?
Because it's cheap.
Because the corporate elite think of us as children.
I guess if they can get the kids, they effectively have the future sorted
Who wouldn't want to live in a third-rate Pixar movie?
It’s marketable and inoffensive. That’s it.
It looks like the first half of a not-so-good black mirror episode, one from the later seasons where they ran out of good ideas.
All episodes suck
Watching Limmy over-analyse metaverse ads is a pass time i never knew i needed. I hope he never stops.
Limmy getting targeted rolled oats is hilarious. I hope the chat roasted him for that 😄
They know their demographic!
Wait, Limmy doesn’t pay for premium?
Why doesn't he have adblock???
@@ASBO_LUTELY so he can make fun of adverts like that one
Go getcha f*ckin' porridge box
Facebook have absolutely fucked it with the Metaverse, it genuinely might sink them the amount of money they're pouring into this totally flawed and useless concept that nobody asked for
The metaverse isn't a risky business venture it's Facebook making sure that even in a ready player one scenario that you won't be able to escape facebook. If metaverse fails and takes VR with it, that's a win for Facebook.
good
that would be wonderful
Facebook changing their name to Meta and then announcing this load of crap that no one wants, has a bit of a whiff of money laundering or some such shadiness
I dunno, they've lost billions in stocks already. That kind of loss just doesn't seem.deliberate to me.
I can't believe Facebook is going full Apple and pretending they invented this when VRChat came out 5 years ago and it was free.
VR chat never needed a Facebook account
And, VRchat can easily be modified, so the whole thing is actually made by the community. You don't have this lame limited selection of minigames.
Playstation home released 6 years ago
@@jamesswift8315 True, a lot of people don't remember that.
It looks like they're targeting mums who's favourite film is Finding Dori.
It should also be pointed out how eagerly they use the "large black woman saying 'mmmm-hmmm!' for comic relief in contrast to the whiteness of the protagonist" trope, which by now is extremely tired and just plain unfunny in the most generous interpretation. That combined with the attitude that not knowing the difference between Australia and New Zealand, and not caring, is somehow funny or cute makes this whole thing feel so strangely inhuman. (Not to mention the floating torsos.)
All the "friends" are caricatures: lady who drinks special coffee, guy with a 'super rad' mustache, that quirky guy from 'Daeuwn Eundeh (hehe)'. None of the people in the video feel like real people. And none of the footage of the fake versions of these fake people is real footage of the actual product! It's a nightmare.
Also, take a second to question the use of antiquated futurist imagery as the metropolitan backdrop in some sort of attempt to convey: "This is it. The future you all dreamed about is right here, right now." while still feeling old. It's just missing some flying cars whizzing by to a Raymond Scott soundtrack. Maybe it's meant to be tongue-in-cheek but I hate it nonetheless.
I don’t want to live in a cartoon.
A sexy japanese cartoon however
😐Too late.
Nobody's asking! Get your headset on!
"These cutie patooties" - Points to a floating purple ball
May 2023: "Meta's Reality Labs unit reported a $3.99bn operating loss in first-quarter results posted this month, after losing $13.72bn last calendar year. "
April 2024: "Meta Reality Labs Celebrates 10-Year Milestone, Has Lost $50+ Billion"
"The world is your lobster" is an Arthur Daley quote from the 1984 TV series Minder. Facebook is plagiarising a Dennis Waterman vehicle.
as long as somebody posted in their facebook feed, they technically own it
Amazing comment 😂
Wrong people, wrong time...just the wrong location
wean asks for forza horizon, clueless da goes to the shoppes and picks up facebook horizon, wean fuming
Wean could’ve just gotten game pass the little shit
Great improv idea
@@kiryuchan860 it goes "bаstаrd *of a* boy" 🤭
Limmy roasting the metaverse is my favourite augmented reality storytelling experience. It's just awesome.
Limmys right about the representation of women in the ad that’s why Jacqueline mcaferty should do the next meta verse ad
Who's she? Can she be trusted not to turn the weens?
23:52 Look at these poor characters slaving away in an NFT sweatshop
Giggled. Cheers.
Am I the only one who remembers PlayStation Home? All this metaverse shite is just exactly that but with a new coat of hype paint on it and all the extra nft blockchain bollocks added on.
I do remember that. There have been many attempts to create 'virtual hangout spaces', which I guess VR has the best shot at actually achieving. But it's like Limmy said, people want to interact with the real world while hanging out online or whatever, e.g. I can eat, drink, check the weather out my window while chatting to friends on Discord.
and playstation home was almost "Second life"
PlayStation home where you pay for outfits and accessories and watch 15 thirsty teen boys chat up the one glamorous girl who was probably a 50 year old bloke in reality
This is like the start of a portal type game where they show you this before everything goes wrong
20:25 I like that you can see the placemat has ruffled up where they had to slide the cup away from her arm during filming.
I love how a 2 minute clip gives us 47 mins of content 🤣
agreed with Limmy about the inconvenience, I bought a headset, which I wanted for like 2 years and got half life alyx. one of the best gaming experiences I had getting through that game for 2 weeks, but since that, it's been sitting in my closet in the box it came in because; can't be arsed
The engineers nailed it but developers can't seem to nail it with the games. Art experiences and educational stuff have ended up being my favorite VR times. We'll see where it goes when Sony dumps money into their next gen PSVR
I had this exact same reaction lol, got it in November and got a bunch of VR games in the winter sale, played some really cool games, including alyx, for a bit then got bored cause of the hassle. Couple weeks into 2022 and I remembered that Elite Dangerous runs in VR, then had one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had. I think the nature of VR is short term fun followed by a month or two break until the next fun VR thing comes along.
Same. And hell, even now that Alyx is getting a sequel, I won't be playing it- Why? Because I already played Alyx and the sequel looks like the same game with new maps. No thanks.
@@commanderpanda9356 man, since writing this comment I've played one VR game. the medium is never going to take off if it isn't streamlined for accessibility in a major way. and I get that the Quest doesn't need a PC to run games but the battery life is just kind of pathetic for the price tag and it's considered a cheaper option.
u lost half your life to a headset?
Limmy could stare at sky and complain about it for two hours and I'd still watch it
They plans for a peaceful place… Gonna end up being a packed server of everyone around that fountain shouting racist stuff and music blasting music down there mic😂
Nailed it with the criticism Limmy. Wheezing my way through.
The big issue with VR is that it almost always makes first time users feel motion sick, and the fact that you have to be standing up to properly use it raises the barrier of entry a lot among many other things. It's almost doomed to fail, i know that people don't want to have to deal with that, and when they do deal with all of that their reward will be a virtual hellscape of ADs beamed directly into their eyeballs
Really? doomed to fail? VR is literally just getting started, the amount of people with VR headsets and games being developed for it has been growing exponentially with a particularly massive boom in the past year or so
With development of VR technology is at an all time high the tech is only going to get better and more accessible over time, those barriers for entry are going to be some of the first things to go
you are right about the motion sickness. i felt sick as a dog after I turned to look over my shoulder. I have no desire to ever enter VR again.
I think the killer use-case for VR is for people with disabilities. There are people who are bedridden for whatever reason, or who can have minimal human contact because of immune disorders, and being able to meet their friends in VR is a life-changer. But VR Chat already does that, so I have no idea what the Metaverse would add.
Horizons is definitely a ripoff of VRChat, the only thing that I’d say that Horizons does is that it’s mainstream. VRChat seems to only attract children or a certain type of avant-garde individuals. Horizons seems to be a roll of the dice with the general public. The app itself is pretty boring but I’ve met some cool people in it.
It will be just like PlayStation home. 30 men avatars crowding round 1 woman avatar
Don’t forget the couch in the way of the doorway to the balcony.
I was a Sony rep when 3D TVs were a thing. It was difficult to sell 3D when you thought it was awful, and a million miles away from being a decent experience.
Had a similar experience working as a tech support agent for a simulated cycling fitness MMO called Zwift. The game's an absolute mess of spaghetti code and something breaks every single patch, meanwhile I have to pretend in front of the customers that it's worth paying 15 dollars per month (and spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on 'smart bike' equipment) to have the privilege to play it.
I bought an LG 3D tv when they were a thing. It was wicked. Don't care what anybody says.
Dont know if this has been mentioned but the hand motion with the coffee cup mimics drawing out the metaverse infinity logo lol if you're into your subliminal marketing
So I have to sacrifice my legs to join the metaverse?
For starters...
No genitalia and anyone can have a moustache!
Do I have to be black to sip coffee?
@@javimiami92 Ladies and gentlemen, you can have a _delicious_ Yorkshire tea...
No, they sacrifice you
The moment she air quoted "no limits" to suggest how stunning and brave she was (she got a moustache?? Crazyyyyy!!)... crow bar to the back of the head. IRL.
Whoops... whoops, whoops!
Mods, watchlist
@@ryanbarry34 whoops
The only way I'd enter the metaverse is if I had a guided tour by Falconhoof on arrival.
Kill zucc
I wonder if Limmy would be willing to have a portal in his central nervous system, re: David Cronenberg's film, 'existenz'.
If that woman is in that plane imagine the digital terrorism. Woman gets jump scared from plane attack falls down simultaneously cracking neglected child’s head and injuring herself in the process.
I'm not even on facebook, I couldn't imagine anything worse than this shite, I'm 45, I honestly can't see the fucking point of this.
Not on Facebook either and every time I see something like this it seems like a better and better decision.
Dude I'm 24 and I get a throbbing erection for new interesting technology and I don't see any point in this
Pished maself at Limmy pishing his self at that Quaker Oats advert 😂
Does anyone look at the metaverse and actually think this a good thing? Or actually excited about it?
Looks like absolute hell on earth to me. Trapped in a digital Facebook full of fake people pretending to be something they are not. It's actually horrific and depressing as fock that people think this is anything but a dystopian nightmare.
That bit about advising against what theyre showing 😄 ..this whole analysis was spot on
5 years? Alright time to check this video again by then. Hope the old boy survives that long.
Do you think they will try and sell you the "Legs DLC"?
If I still have to breath by myself in the metaverse without the intervention of a respiratory machine, then I'm out, I don't care. I'd sooner go live in a shack on a beach by the woods if I actually have to breath by myself.
My interest in VR took a steep dive right around the time Horizons released. My ability to physically handle VR took a hit too. Pretty impressive, really.
@@delgat000 Haven't played it and don't plan to. It's the idea that put me off. (The bit about physical comfort is just a joke, to be clear. That's just a coincidence... or maybe psychological.)
It's a win-win for Facebook. They want to either dominate VR or to kill it as a competitor to PC and phones. Both outcomes are a success for Facebook.
I definitely think that the indelible harm caused to children from growing up on social media platforms will in no way be replicated in a corporate-captured, mind-reading, never-ending headfuck VR universe. And I'd like to make it public here that I for one welcome our new insect overlords, and I'm very sorry about all the wanking.
Love the ironic username !!
VR is still a novelty just like the Wii and 3D glasses. It's not ergonomic or practical enough for day to day use or meet the needs of the space you occupy. They are still not practical. Gaming, especially console gaming just needs a space where you can hold a controller and see a screen.
This is the best thing I have seen in a long time!
It's not a gaming environment except in some desultory team-building exercise sense. Limmy's missus nailed it when querying the depiction of women. It is being marketed as an alternative to Zoom to HR managers who are being asked to sell WFH to downsizing corporations.
There's soo much gold in this. Amazing, the coffee, the 'Australian.' The cat....
reddit be like
Hyping up her artisan coffee like it's somehow part of the metaverse
I want VR to be like a living dream, the feeling of endless possibilities but while you're awake. With all the sleeve that comes with it. I hate the puritanical shite.
Good for racing games and flying games because it gives you a sense of space that playing on a monitor just can't really match. But I don't want to talk to people on it, using cutesy avatars like they used to have on the Wii.
Why would I wanna do boring everyday shit while getting ads
I think there are gems that show what VR can be. Specifically, Half Life: Alyx
Was absolutely addicted to that, was a long while before I went back to non-vr games after that.
It is inconvenient though, it’s alright if you’ve got plenty of space, but I had my PC in my living room to be able to play Alyx. I still use it all the time for sims though, driving and flying n stuff. Star Wars squadrons is ace, Dirt rally 2 as well.
You're saying you were an adddict like it is a good thing.
@@LPFan33 Indeed, that’s how I’m using the word in that context, as an indication that it was compelling in a good way.
@@LPFan33 Using the word addicted to describe enjoying a game is a funny thing to take seriously. Thats not what an addict is
Brave playing VR next to the TV and an open high rise window.
Hey everyone, feel more isolated than you do normally and escape into a place where you don’t have to deal with skill strengthening issues. God help us
I genuinely can't see how this is anything more than a VR Second Life thing
That's exactly what it feels like
In fact the creator of second life commented on Meta when zuck announced it
Second life guy said something along the lines of "you can't possibly moderate a game this closely unless everyone provides some real world identification and nobody wants to do that"
Paraphrasing but yeah
Second Life could get weird and wild, and, even as someone who never tried it out, I could see the appeal. Metaverse will be a sterile wasteland.
@@petewerehere second life had areas with programmed cocks that would follow you around on the ground
Exactly, what's wrong with just looking up at a cloud and feeling like you're falling backwards. Gone are the days of sticks and hoops and clouds.
old man yells at cloud, literally
I wonder if the "joysticks" are being marketed accurately. It is probably like the Wii Sports thing where you realised after five minutes that tiny economical movements while sitting quite still was all that was needed to interact with the games.
Englishman that moved to America here. I can confirm that the living rooms are the size of houses and so are the people.
Did anyone else have a book of short stories called "The Web 2020"? I think it was published late 90s/early 00s, it was a kids'/ young adult book of stories about advanced VR games. It made it sound quite exciting and dangerous.
Finally, someone telling Stuart what's up
The part with the Kiwi in the art gallery had me pissing myself. I'm a Brit that lives in the UK and the yanks ALWAYS call me either Australian or Scottish..
I wanna see Limmy in VRchat LMAOO what a trip tha'd be
Limmy plays HLA
I struggle to see how you could paint something like that in VR tbh, like unless they have some really nice controllers, I don't know how you'd get the accuracy.
Let’s all move into a budget Pixar world! Fucking hooray 🤦🏻♂️
Black girl go “MHMMMM”
When I spent some time in the metaverse there was different entry-points, some people just used their phone and jumped into VR to puppet & express themselves during heated moments. There was a class disparity as well, who had what equipment. Hands were a big deal
Oh look, virtual hell.
Crazed Man Rips Apart 2 Minute Advert for 50 Minutes
Realistically if this is ever released, its going to go down the same route as all new releases in modern times - completley barebones and buggy which they'll fix with updates. Marketing is doing all the heavy lifting trying to get people on board in the early stage . The people that will actually buy and get invested in this crap are going to buy the likes of NFTs , skins, DLC and what-have-you thinking that everyone is going to be intested in what your avatar looks like...
What VR should be is being much more specific (rather than this nintentdo looking cartoon world). I'd rather VR tech being used for more specific things... Imagine meeting with your mates in real life and go to a golf simulator, or a dedicated racing simulator... Enough of this pish that you can do everything you ever dreamed about and will make you infinately happier with a VR headset that you can buy in Argos - its all marketing wank.
So true. They need to nail down a specific idea. Cos you watch these ads and you come out still wondering what you actually do in horizon or the metaverse.
All releases in modern times , did you ever hear the story of the original pong. It was knocked up as a demo by an engineer who was planning to expand and develop it further, marketing execs were like fuck that, it works, ship it,
I assumed he was gonna be doing commentary on a 40 min video. Doing a 40 min video on a 1 min 30s vid is quite impressive haha
Yeah it's a fair point. I love my noise-cancelling headphones but even there I consider it a nuisance having to pause/unpause anything I'm doing whenever I need to listen to something or someone around me. I don't see the same happening for vision.
At least you can navigate your surroundings with out sound. Being blindfolded is just way worse.
A good advert would note what that the majority want VR for, in order of importance... 1) VR Pron (includes Nintendo rumble pack) 2) VR Crime to practice for real life scenarios 3) VR Gambling 4) VR fps and horror games that will eventually give genuine PTSD
This is reminding me of the type of shit wet rice advertising we got when the Xbox Kinect first came out
Remember the one where they pretended you could be friends with a little boy? Charlie Brooker's reaction to that was hilarious enough that it got him in trouble
Wait, are you telling me that in this game the characters have no legs the whole time?
They couldn't be bothered to make a walking animation? PS1 games could do that.
The sims could do that 😂
The lady does a barrel roll in the plane with her hand movement and her head doesn't move an inch? Nonsense
Smug yanks
😫Aye, the rotten bastards...
24:20 To some Americans, everything south of America is Mexico. If you're from Columbia? Mexican. You're from Brazil? Nope, you're Mexican, doesn't matter that you speak Portuguese and not Spanish. Cuban? Nope, you're Mexican.
And God forbid you're a member of a Native tribe. Nobody even bothers asking what tribe you're from, unless they're Native as well.
Woman in the advert was spot-on with her reaction, too.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I would love to see Limmy in GTA RP
...Is this going to have a playable demo for the ZX Spectrum 48k ... or not?
B careful Mark Zucciburg watches these videos. You might find yourself waking up in a cell 5 miles under his house
Isn't that New Zealand guy playing VR in a room with a fish tank asking for the glass to be broke? If you move your arms around fast enough, I don't get how the wall warning boundaries that show up will stop you in time.
Arguably AI did takeover our lives though. Maybe not the AI that people were expecting, but it is part of the reason I am watching this video right now.
Algorithms are not AI. And that's what 99% of AI is, just pretrained algorithms.
@@Wabajak13 I guess RUclips would be the AI. And the algorithms brought him here.
To be fair we've had VR Chat for years now and that is probably 'the internet' in an online 3D world. These latest headsets that don't need external sensors are a big deal, don't know how good the Quest 2 is but the original Rift you have to properly set up most times and then have the room to move around. I think VR will remain a niche, I'm not sure it will die off. Headsets are still big.
Hilarious and accurate, great review!
Oh dear has it all come to this!!😫
True
Nothing sums up being alive in 2022 better than 2:17 "a shite advert after a shite fuckin advert"
If you've played VR Chat then you know how shit the Metaverse is going to actually be.
I personally dont think itll take off because people want easy to digest media, and VR right now is a massive pain for people to even get let alone use.
You can't even use it without getting dizzy or hurting your eyes unless you use VR regularly, which most people won't just because it's a pain in he butt to use. And that's a never ending cycle.
@@omikron6218 Nah, you don't get dizzy with teleport which is what meta verse will most likely use.
If I can watch UFC events live in VR where there are dozens of 3D VR cameras to chose from in the stadium/next to/above the octagon - I’ll buy it right away.
Check out Metacast, it's only a couple of years away.
@@TedThomasTTis it out yet
Would love to see limmy watching some vrchat degeneracy as a comparison
That's awesome!
Facebook has all your information they now want a camera/sensor in your home…
My problem with this metaverse thing is that is basically Facebook's reaction to criticism about serious problems with their entire platform. They seem to think that making it 3D is going to fix things, or at least distract attention from the real problems.
but they can also sell virtual mustaches which are practically free to make, so it's actually good.
I need to be able to eat and shit in the metaverse for it to be worth my time
I dont understand why your average non-gaming normie will suddenly want to put on a clunky accessory so that they can game online. I mean, what's the attraction?
I don't understand why a gamer would want to stick a head set on and interact with a bunch of dweebs that probs aren't the same age or gender as their avatars.
They won't. It will be a huge flop.
@@ConchTheGabberGreer nah, high fidelity VR is pretty amazing. PSVR2 will change peoples outlook on VR as the software it moves beyond the low budget indie stuff
@@mcconartist3281 so is real life! Get back to me when I can drink a pint of beer in vr and taste it in real life :))
You can wear a mustache