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Meta to bring in mandatory distances between virtual reality avatars
- kordlessagain 5y agoMaybe the wealthy avatars will pay to increase the distance at which others can approach them!
- ipspam 5y agoI had high hopes for vr. Then Facebook took it over. I won't touch this dystopean future. It should be strangled before it strangles us
- version_five 5y agoWhen a platform grown organically, it gets to start out with a good idea, and then retain some of the original spirit even after it has to introduce annoying rules and controls to deal with growth and attention (look at reddit eg) When an at scale platform is spawned out of whole cloth, like what facebook is doing, the bureaucratic things that make it shitty get baked in from the beginning. The attention from day one makes sure there is all kinds of "what about?" happening that turns it into a boring, sterile environment. Government has the same problem, it could arguably be worse for Facebook. They would be better off seeding and/or buying platforms that gr(o|e)w organically
- nikolay 5y agoZuck invented yet another form of online harassment and now wants to police it as well!
- ViViDboarder 5y agoSo… a clipping buffer so avatars can’t occupy the same space? This feels a lot less controversial than they are trying to make it sound.
- karmakaze 5y agoOh great more social distancing--in the world we go to escape this one.
- Salgat 5y agoIs it possible to block in avatars this way? Kind of like Habbo hotel.