Meta's Horizon Worlds Avatars Finally Have Legs (uploadvr.com) 37
An anonymous reader quotes a report from UploadVR: Meta Avatars in Horizon Worlds now have virtual legs. If you launch Horizon Worlds and look in the mirror in the menu space, you'll see your avatar's full body, and you'll see it for other people too when you enter a world. The company's virtual avatars had previously faced widespread ridicule for their upper-body-only appearance. If you look down however you still won't see your own legs. This legs update only applies to third person avatars -- other people and yourself in the mirror -- not in first person.
Many VR apps & games already give you virtual legs in both first and third person. But no shipping VR system has built-in leg tracking, so virtual legs don't match the actual movement of your real legs. Further, there's not really a graceful way to handle the transition between sitting and standing, nor to make the legs look natural when moving around with the thumbstick. Some people don't mind these issues with fake virtual legs, but it feels disconcerting to others.
Legs had already arrived in the Quest home space (branded Horizon Home) two weeks ago for Quest firmware Public Test Channel users, but this is the first time they've arrived in a VR app. Third party apps using Meta Avatars (such as GOLF+) can't yet add legs though, as the SDK hasn't been updated. Horizon's developers seem to have early access to a new version.
Many VR apps & games already give you virtual legs in both first and third person. But no shipping VR system has built-in leg tracking, so virtual legs don't match the actual movement of your real legs. Further, there's not really a graceful way to handle the transition between sitting and standing, nor to make the legs look natural when moving around with the thumbstick. Some people don't mind these issues with fake virtual legs, but it feels disconcerting to others.
Legs had already arrived in the Quest home space (branded Horizon Home) two weeks ago for Quest firmware Public Test Channel users, but this is the first time they've arrived in a VR app. Third party apps using Meta Avatars (such as GOLF+) can't yet add legs though, as the SDK hasn't been updated. Horizon's developers seem to have early access to a new version.
When you corporate (Score:2)
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nobody cares.
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Pervs who sexually harass people in the metaverse will be happy that their avatars now have a crotch.
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You know I never really understood that getting a headline. Those are just 12yr old trolls, they are everywhere not just the metaverse.
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Channel 4 in the UK investigated it, and the video they showed had people who sounded like adults doing the harassment. As a test they made their account look like a 12 year old, and the harassment got even worse.
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Judging by some of the quite disgusting things said here, it's the fauxtistic adults who didn't grow out of their childish phase who actually has the energy for that shit.
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Have you ever logged on a minecraft server? That's why. Once upon a time most people continued maturing after 12-15. These days it seems like only a small subset mature.
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Uh huh. Lots of people will act in surprising ways if they think they're anonymous, and always have. Ancient Romans scribbled dick and shit jokes on their public bathroom walls the same as people do today. Someone even snuck a sex poem into the bible.
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Maybe but still mentally 12. Either way it isn't a metaverse specific thing.
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That would require people actually using the service instead of VRChat or second life.
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Hey some of us here are absolute VR loving nutjobs eagerly awaiting the release of the Quest 3 with the wallet at the ready.
Oh wait this is about Horizon Worlds. Nah we don't care about that either.
Seriously Meta needs to stick to making hardware and funding games.
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Yeah, I'm one of them. I've been on Horizon before and while the leg thing was good for jokes I can't imagine too many people seriously considered it a dealmaker or breaker. Honestly, I can't see much difference between Horizon Worlds and recroom and can't see being into either when there is VRChat and if ever there was a platform that would have been the perfect start for what Zuck apparently wanted to build it would have been VRChat. But... I probably still wouldn't be all that into it.
Meta does need to s
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I do a little, it means they are still pissing gobs of money into this go nowhere do nothing concept that already exists. That makes me happy as its a step closer to death for meta
stuff that matter (Score:3)
For sure.
So they have legs... (Score:3)
Money well spent. (Score:2)
21 billion $ spent and we finally have legs!
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Funny joke, but they didn't spend $21billion on Horizon Worlds. A lot of that money was put to good use. Mind you setting money on fire would be put to good use compared to developing that shitty software since at least it generates heat, so that doesn't mean much.
And the next release will have.... (Score:2)
... toes.
Not even a 1st world problem (Score:2, Interesting)
A 0th world problem?
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Remember when the related links were linked by editors, not by an obviously worthless algorithm [slashdot.org]?
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To be fair at least 3 out of those links are tagged as Facebook. Mind you Slashdot tag every story about tech "digital" these days, seemingly forgetting that tag was used to refer to DEC.
Now I feel better. (Score:2)
All the avatars still look like girls (Score:3, Interesting)
I don't get how Meta can mess this up for so long so badly! It's impossible to get a masculine looking avatar from Meta. Every avatar looks like a girl, or a girl with a beard. Completely feminine body posture as well! Nobody wants to look like that. Anyway, mark me as troll, but as long as my POV (and everyone else that is normal) is marked 'troll', Meta will never gain success on the order of VRChat and RecRoom.
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Completely feminine body posture as well! Nobody wants to look like that.
Nobody? Not even women? Weird.
We were joking (Score:2)
we don't care about your avatars having legs, or anything else about what you do.
Logo backward in TFA image? (Score:2)
It's interesting that the logo on the red hoodie the guy in the middle is wearing is backwards in TFA image. Is it suppose to be a mirror image or did the guy want a shirt people facing him couldn't read?
Hey! The 80's want their idea... (Score:3)
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Editorial board sense of humor (Score:2)
For 3d world ironic how horizon VR geoblocked, WTF (Score:2)
bought my quest in the us, us resident abroad, why the heck can't I download Horizon VR? It says it's only available in some countries
It's very ironic since this is sold as a virtual world, use from anywhere, be anywhere. there are other similar apps available worldwide from other people
it doesn't make any sense... one the plus side, avatar have legs, WOW, this is a game changer
Ooh, new leg technology! (Score:2)
Does the Zuck have two legs or four? (Score:2)