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Metaverse hype fizzles out as Korean tech giants pull plug (koreajoongangdaily.joins.com)
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[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 128 points 1 day ago (3 children)

There was hype?

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 38 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Some people just love looking at themselves.

[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 14 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

You're joking, but there are lots of people in VRChat that love spending a lot of time looking at their own avatar in front of in-game mirrors.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Man, I hate looking at myself in mirrors or even hearing myself in recordings. I just don't understand people who actually like it.

[–] vinyl@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Theres no other feedback of your own avatar except for viewing it, if i am trying to immerse my self i wanna make sure i dont look jacked up.

Source: me, i play.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, in VR you're really just checking how well you did your avatar. There's a sense of accomplishment in doing something that looks like you with a very limited set of tools. Haven't tried it in VR, but I know the exact feeling from The Sims series.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

I understand checking when first creating it, but I find it weird to check it after that. I don't even make my avatar in games look anything like myself. It's not that I'm bad looking or anything, I just don't like looking at myself, and that includes pictures, videos, etc.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

At least 1000 people

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

A good 200 of them are pissed right now.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 59 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Within the billionaire bubble there was a lot of hype. Outside of that, not so much.

A new platform to colonize, gathering info on what people were looking at in the virtual world and selling that to advertising made their wallets go very erect.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 34 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I think the biggest part was selling people fake clout for a nearly 100% profit margin. They were going to sell us virtual clothes and status ~~in mass~~ en masse for our very real money. Not that this doesn't already happen in gaming but it would have been expanded greatly

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago

Yeah man.....for like 2 weeks, and then it released. Then again when they added legs. For like a day.