Did Mark Zuckerberg's little dance actually show us real metaverse legs? - The Verge

During Meta’s Connect league connected Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg made a immense announcement: the avatars successful the company’s Horizon VR app volition beryllium getting legs soon. To show this groundbreaking method achievement, Zuckerberg’s integer avatar lifted each limb successful the air, past did a jump, portion Aigerim Shorman’s avatar kicked into the air.

It whitethorn person each been for show. According to UploadVR exertion Ian Hamilton, an unnamed Meta spokesperson said that the “the conception featured animations created from question capture,” meant to “enable this preview of what’s to come.” To maine that reads similar what we saw wasn’t really a demo of what Horizon’s legs volition look like, but alternatively an artist’s mentation of what Horizon’s legs may extremity up looking like.

I’m crushed.

Okay, possibly that’s a spot dramatic. Because, really, this was casual to spot coming. My co-worker Jay Peters adjacent warned that the pre-recorded video wasn’t needfully an close practice successful his sum of the announcement. Still, if Meta truly is trying to accidental that its presumption didn’t diagnostic immoderate footage of what legs volition really look similar arsenic interpreted by your Quest headset, that’s somewhat worrying. This diagnostic is expected to beryllium coming soon, but we can’t spot it yet? How americium I expected to cognize if I should spend $1,500 connected a Quest Pro if I can’t beryllium definite that it’ll fto maine person my virtual avatar jump up onto the boardroom array and bash a dance during a virtual meeting?

I conjecture we’ll conscionable person to hold until the legs really motorboat to spot however Meta’s AI-predicted legs stack up against the existent deal. For now, I conjecture we’ll conscionable get a footwear retired of Zuckerberg’s awkward “demonstration” — adjacent if each it truly proved was that computers are, successful fact, susceptible of rendering legs successful immoderate capacity.