Surprise for some, certainty for others, meta avatars legs demo was created by Motion Capture, understand by this that the rendering was calculated and refined before and for the conference. Said video, embedded in the Connect 2022, showed a next-gen avatar featuring a full body.
The community Meta was quick to react, each not hesitating to defend his point of view. But the main question is to know why Meta would reveal something to us which, once the helmet is screwed on the head, would not at all have the promised rendering? The answer couldn’t be simpler, Meta has taken up the annoying habit for more than a year of selling us dreamsyou probably remember the semi-realistic avatars presented during the Connect 2021and you certainly remember your first experience in Horizon Worlds ? The same pattern tends to repeat itself.
Meta moreover, in this regard, said the following:
To allow this preview of what is to come, the scene included animations created from Motion Capture (Editor’s note: motion capture).
Following this announcement, Hrafn ThorissonCEO and founder of development studio Aldin (Waltz of the Wizard), said :
Personally, I think this type of approach erodes the credibility of the industry.
As we told you in a previous article, the avatars of Meta suffer almost constant mockery, and it is true that the “promised” avatars at Connect 2021 and the avatars present long before in the film Ready Player One have given the eyes of the general public an ideal to achieve. A game of cat and mouse is then established between ever more demanding users and developers who have to “give them a show” before they even finish developing the expected functionalities correctly.
If you want to know more about Meta’s willingness to introduce legs for our avatarsyou can always read our article on the full body tracking as well as that concerning the statements ofAndrew Bosworth (director of the AR/VR department at Meta) on this subject.
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