Facebook's Legs Video Was A Lie - Kotaku

Earlier this week Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to the signifier to show that, having spent billions of dollars to make a virtual world beingness (Horizon Worlds) that looked similar it was from 2004, his institution was moving connected improving that beingness to marque it look similar it was from 2009 instead. Integral to this upgrade was the information that avatars would nary longer beryllium specified floating torsos, but would soon person legs.

It was a precise weird video existing successful a precise weird space, as Ethan wrote astatine the time:

Today’s exemplary is intelligibly an hold of that aboriginal rendering, and yet brings the VR level past the likes of Fire Emblem: Awakening connected the Nintendo 3DS, different crippled that lacked legs. And that was with Meta lone spending $10 cardinal this twelvemonth connected the technology. Who knows what different tiny luck volition bring? If thing tin catapult the Oculus storefront into the green, it’s a burgeoning marketplace for VR feet pics. It mightiness look similar we’re being ridiculous here, but bash cognize that the unrecorded chat alongside the virtual assemblage watching each of this unfold perfectly exploded erstwhile Zuckerberg started talking astir feet.

While the updates expecting to bring full-body avatars aren’t expected until 2023, Zuckerberg was intelligibly seen jumping astir successful the video, giving everyone an aboriginal look astatine the tech. Or was he?

Anyone who has ever been astir *checks the culture* immoderate portion of selling ever made should cognize by present that not everything is arsenic it seems erstwhile a institution is trying to merchantability you something. And successful this case, the video Meta showed disconnected was made with immoderate help.

As UploadVR’s Ian Hamilton has since reported, Meta has issued a follow-up statement, which says “To alteration this preview of what’s to come, the conception featured animations created from question capture.”

Deep down, of course, you each knew this. From vertical slices astatine E3 to photograph tricks shown astatine Apple events, determination are ever grains of brackish we request to chew connected each clip a institution trying to merchantability america thing that isn’t retired yet.

But there’s thing particularly comic astir this successful particular, that a task that has spent billions of dollars to look similar a Kinect demo—a portion of hardware archetypal shown disconnected successful 2009—has ended up with its ain dumb feet-related moment.

Who knows, possibly erstwhile it’s yet released the tech volition looks precisely similar this! Maybe it won’t. Maybe nary of america volition ever really usage Horizon Worlds and it volition stay a enigma forever.