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Mark Zuckerberg BUSTED After Faking MAJOR Metaverse Feature

Earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage to demonstrate that having spent billions of dollars to create a virtual reality universe (Horizon Worlds) that looked like it was from 2004, his company was working on improving that universe to make it look like it was from 2009 instead. Integral to this upgrade was the fact that avatars would no longer be mere floating torsos, but would soon have legs.

Despite having spent $15 billion building out its virtual reality playground so far, the company’s vision has been widely criticized, including by insiders.

Zuckerberg announced, “one more feature coming soon that’s probably the most requested feature on our road map.”

“Legs!” he said. “I think everyone has been waiting for this!”

But even that may have been too good to be true, as The Verge reports. A spokesperson told the publication that Zuckerberg’s awkward VR legs may have “featured animations created from motion capture” meant to “enable this preview of what’s to come.”

In other words, Zuckerberg’s legs may have been pre-rendered and not a direct VR translation of the movement of his real legs — despite the CEO heavily implying otherwise at the event.

From Yahoo:

Anything in a product demo deserves skepticism (“All demos lie!” reads one reply), but the apparent fabrication of a feature that has drawn a significant amount of industry commentary, snark, and competitive trolling certainly doesn’t help the rocky rollout of what is supposed to be Meta’s signature product.

Watch the video below:

As if Tuesday’s keynote wasn’t underwhelming enough.

Apart from announcing that Horizon’s pixelated — and frankly ugly — avatars will get a facelift and a pair of legs, the company also showed off a new VR headset called the Oculus Quest Pro, which has an eyewatering price tag of $1,500.

With that kind of price, the Quest Pro is unlikely to convince very many people to spend more time inside Meta’s metaverse.

But that’s exactly what Meta needs to be working on most of all, as Meta advisor John Carmack, creator of the blockbuster video game “Doom,” told audiences at the conference.

So where does that leave us? Zuckerberg’s doubling down — but the company is bleeding money and the project’s future is anything but certain.

Sources: Yahoo, The Verge

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