The internet is mocking Meta for announcing its 'probably most requested feature': legs - PC Gamer

Here's a question for you: what bash you reckon is Meta's "most requested feature" connected its roadmap to the VR revolution, according to Mark Zuckerberg? Avatars without the cold, dormant eyes of a killer (opens successful caller tab)? Rehiring Meta's fired morals team (opens successful caller tab)? A point?

Wrong, wrong, and incorrect again. At yesterday's Meta Connect event, erstwhile Mark Zuckerberg took to the signifier successful the signifier of his integer double—an avatar that does, successful fairness, look amended than the 1 from his August selfie (opens successful caller tab)—he revealed that the radical person seemingly been clamouring for 1 happening and 1 happening only: legs.

Meta's Horizon avatars volition go bipedal astatine immoderate constituent aboriginal adjacent year, arsenic portion of a large update that volition marque everyone's avatar arsenic beauteous arsenic the 1 Zuckerberg was utilizing yesterday. For now, though, those of america extracurricular of the Meta C-suite are stuck with the legless avatars of old, watching Zuckerberg twirl and cavort connected signifier portion each we person is our anserine arms and hands.

It's taken this agelong for Meta to conquer the little 50% of the quality assemblage because, Zuckerberg says, legs are pugnacious for standalone VR headsets to fig out. In his presentation, Zuckerberg gave the illustration of sitting with your legs nether a table (which I can't hold to bash successful a wholly virtual satellite with limitless imaginative potential): erstwhile they're retired of sight, the headset doesn't cognize what they're up to. So, Meta says it needs to physique an AI exemplary to foretell what the heck your legs are doing nether there.

The full announcement had an aerial of unreality to it, which isn't retired of quality for Meta (opens successful caller tab). And conscionable similar with Zuckerberg's selfie from a mates of months ago, the net has wasted nary clip memeing connected the inherent weirdness of dedicating a chunk of your $300-billion company's (opens successful caller tab) property lawsuit to announcing legs. 

To beryllium just to aged Zuck, the Meta Connect wasn't 100% all-legs each the time, though that would person been a batch funnier. The institution besides took the accidental to unveil the Meta Quest Pro (opens successful caller tab), a $1,500 VR headset notionally designed for high-powered firm types, but that we conscionable privation to usage to play games. Maybe the achy terms tag is to screen the outgo of each that intensive limb R&D.