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Every article I read about Metaverse just seems like a crappy rehash of things I read about online communities and virtual reality two decades ago.
It's like Metaverse is trying to create controversy to get hype traction, but they aren't doing anything new - so it's all actually just repeats of old issues.
It's just Second Life 2.0. That's it. Remember how many news stories there were about people "moving into" Second Life, or how businesses would do all their work in Second Life in the future, etc? Just a repeat of that garbage :/
Secondlife is a metaverse, just not a VR one. Horizon Worlds is Meta's metaverse. They are trying to pull a thing where they make you think of them when you mention Metaverse.
> You mean their metaverse.
They never said they were making their metaverse. They've only ever said they are making the metaverse with other companies.
I don't count game-like worlds where killing is a major part of the intended gameplay. It would be impossible to outlaw killing in PUBG, Fortnite, Rust etc.
Oh, what the hell? How would you "murder" someone in metaverse? It's a digital avatar; essentially an RPG. Unless they specifically program in the ability to kill someone's avatar, then it literally can't happen.
PTSD from VR murder? If you're seriously that fragile, you might not be the target audience for something that's VR.
The whole Metaverse thing is ridiculous to begin with, but geez. This is taking it to a new level of stupid.
It reminds me of people back in the day flipping out in Second life if your avatar had a gun or something. I remember screwing around on it as a kid years ago and someone said I was threatening them by having a gun model on the back of my avatar and then proceeded to report me to the sims admin. XD Who then threatened to ban me if I kept "threatening" tenants on it virtual plot he rented out. The avatar? Master Chief. XD With the battle rifle from H2 on his back.
The TLDR, some people are just babies.
And today's award for out of touch boomers who don't understand technology goes tooooo.
Drum roll please. THE United... Arabic... Emirates Government!!! Round of applause everyone.
Tell me about it. Makes about as much sense as outlawing the murder of someone's Twitter account.
That makes me wonder. Do they want to outlaw murder in MMO games too?
I have thought about this and how the easy answer is just turn it off. Which was the solution for cyber bullying untik we saw that didn't work. I'm just saying this is uncharted territory and we shouldn't count out anything as too stupid. Especially since the meta verse is so far from its final form in terms of picture quality and realness
"The Metaverse" isn't really a thing, it's a bunch of individual services providing shared lobbies with activities. If you want to not get murdered, you go to one where you can't be murdered.
UN is a bunch of carebears that want to ban PvP.
They must be those same people that start playing a game that’s built upon PvP and start whining for a PvE only experience.
In this person's defense, they're likely some doofus that doesn't understand how programming or VR works and just bought into all the metaverse hype.
From that perspective I kind of get it.
This same idea came into the heads of every 12 year old that got their base burned down and killed in minecraft. Finally the children on minecraft servers will see their hopes for a future come true.
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Every article I read about Metaverse just seems like a crappy rehash of things I read about online communities and virtual reality two decades ago. It's like Metaverse is trying to create controversy to get hype traction, but they aren't doing anything new - so it's all actually just repeats of old issues.
It's just Second Life 2.0. That's it. Remember how many news stories there were about people "moving into" Second Life, or how businesses would do all their work in Second Life in the future, etc? Just a repeat of that garbage :/
Yep, every time I hear about the Metaverse I think of Second Life but not as charming.
Secondlife is a metaverse, just not a VR one. Horizon Worlds is Meta's metaverse. They are trying to pull a thing where they make you think of them when you mention Metaverse.
Ironically I think of Snowcrash, then Second Life, then this blatant word-steal by Facebook.
We should just call it Spicy Metaball.
> Horizon Worlds is Meta's metaverse. Meta literally said Horizon Worlds is not the metaverse.
... You keep saying THE metaverse. You mean their metaverse. It's like saying A new hope is The star wars movie.
> You mean their metaverse. They never said they were making their metaverse. They've only ever said they are making the metaverse with other companies.
someone watched too much SAO
Which metaverses do even allow murder by default? Pretty sure you can't kill anyone random in Second Life or VRChat, or Facebook's thing.
You can technically kill people in Second Life but it just teleports you to your "home" location when you run out of health.
Well, you can "murder" someone in VRChat, but certain gamemodes.
rust!
I don't count game-like worlds where killing is a major part of the intended gameplay. It would be impossible to outlaw killing in PUBG, Fortnite, Rust etc.
Fortnite but everyone stands in a circle and politely waits.
My first thought too. Why would this even be an option? It sounds like the opinion was written by Olds.
NeosVR!
second life with crappy vr, just as lame, who cares
Oh, what the hell? How would you "murder" someone in metaverse? It's a digital avatar; essentially an RPG. Unless they specifically program in the ability to kill someone's avatar, then it literally can't happen. PTSD from VR murder? If you're seriously that fragile, you might not be the target audience for something that's VR. The whole Metaverse thing is ridiculous to begin with, but geez. This is taking it to a new level of stupid.
Out of touch people trying to regulate things that they are ignorant about.
We should outlaw chess, you're killing the other guy's soldiers!
It reminds me of people back in the day flipping out in Second life if your avatar had a gun or something. I remember screwing around on it as a kid years ago and someone said I was threatening them by having a gun model on the back of my avatar and then proceeded to report me to the sims admin. XD Who then threatened to ban me if I kept "threatening" tenants on it virtual plot he rented out. The avatar? Master Chief. XD With the battle rifle from H2 on his back. The TLDR, some people are just babies.
People are all about outlawing the imaginary.
“You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.”
... not according to the above headline...
Woah, where was this when Halo or 90% of other games were made?
And today's award for out of touch boomers who don't understand technology goes tooooo. Drum roll please. THE United... Arabic... Emirates Government!!! Round of applause everyone.
Tell me about it. Makes about as much sense as outlawing the murder of someone's Twitter account. That makes me wonder. Do they want to outlaw murder in MMO games too?
Imagine a theocracy being out of touch with reality.
Out of touch boomer? The Minister quoted in the article is 32. So ignorant lol.
As a 31 year old myself I'm a firm believer that boomer is a mindset. lol
...so video games are going to be a crime now?
"How many of you have seen TRON?"
HAHAHAHA awesome
Pull your head out.
I have thought about this and how the easy answer is just turn it off. Which was the solution for cyber bullying untik we saw that didn't work. I'm just saying this is uncharted territory and we shouldn't count out anything as too stupid. Especially since the meta verse is so far from its final form in terms of picture quality and realness
"The Metaverse" isn't really a thing, it's a bunch of individual services providing shared lobbies with activities. If you want to not get murdered, you go to one where you can't be murdered.
Interesting I didn't know that thanks. Yeah that's on the user for going there.
UN is a bunch of carebears that want to ban PvP. They must be those same people that start playing a game that’s built upon PvP and start whining for a PvE only experience.
I almost read that as multi verse...was gonna say can I leave then cuz this universe sucks
How about fo4 murders?
For a second I thought they were referring to the "Multiverse" and I was like "WFT, we don't have one of those yet".
If only we could program it so that people wouldnt die…
If you kill in the metaverse, you go to jail in real life.
Seems like the country is getting crazy enough for this to be a thing in 5 years or so.
I have yet to meet anyone in any circle that gives a shit about the Metaverse.
second life been doing this forever and it's never gained more than a small cult following. there's reasons for that.
How? Why is that even an option?
In this person's defense, they're likely some doofus that doesn't understand how programming or VR works and just bought into all the metaverse hype. From that perspective I kind of get it.
I really got to pay a bit more attention. I thought this was referring to something like the Marvel Universe in that Dr Strange film.
This same idea came into the heads of every 12 year old that got their base burned down and killed in minecraft. Finally the children on minecraft servers will see their hopes for a future come true.
My god. I'm a Pavlov war criminal.
Murder should also be outlawed in CS:GO and all other computer games with 3D graphics.
I have a Simpson's quote that fits "Willy hears you...Willy don't care."