animats Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 Now, with legs! Facebook/Meta announcement. What's amusing is their approach to "branding" - terrible designs with famous brand names on them. "We know that many of you want to more fully represent yourselves and your interests by decking out your avatars with clothing from some of the world’s leading brands. When the Meta Avatars Store starts rolling out this week, we’ll offer digital outfits from Balenciaga, Prada and Thom Browne, three of the world’s most iconic fashion brands." Until 2021, Linden Lab had almost the only good avatar clothing system around. Now more systems are adding layered clothing. MetaHuman, MetaTailor, Roblox, etc. A standards organization is forming. Most of the major players are on board: Epic, Unity, NVidia, Microsoft, Autodesk, etc. Linden Lab is not listed. 1 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindal Kidd Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 They'd better have LOTS of different clothing choices, 'cause those avatars all look the same. 7 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriele Graves Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 It's worse, they all look like Zuck. 4 2 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindal Kidd Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 By golly, they DO! 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luna Bliss Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 lol yes those 2 avatars are Mark and the VP of Fashion Partnerships, but you'll be able to create your own: https://vrscout.com/news/meta-announces-new-avatar-store-with-a-digital-fashion-show/ 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luna Bliss Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce6yFgbptyM/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayashe Ninetails Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 That looks so awful. I'll stay here in SL. 7 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleMe Jewell Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 Why are their heads so big? Do they know nothing about proportions or are they intentionally all big-headed? 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayashe Ninetails Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 12 minutes ago, LittleMe Jewell said: Why are their heads so big? Do they know nothing about proportions or are they intentionally all big-headed? It's such a strange choice IMO. I've seen it a lot in modern life sim games - from My Time at Portia to Animal Crossing. Adults do play those, but it always makes me think a company is trying to target a younger audience when they do that. 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleMe Jewell Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Ayashe Ninetails said: It's such a strange choice IMO. I've seen it a lot in modern life sim games - from My Time at Portia to Animal Crossing. Adults do play those, but it always makes me think a company is trying to target a younger audience when they do that. It makes the already cartoonish looking avatars look even more ridiculous. I thought people wanted realism in their virtual reality worlds. Edited June 23, 2022 by LittleMe Jewell 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayashe Ninetails Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 Just now, LittleMe Jewell said: It makes the already cartoonish looking avatars look even more ridiculous. Right? Not sure why they didn't just go with something more Sims 4 style. Surely they know how popular THAT is. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sammy Huntsman Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 2 hours ago, animats said: Now, with legs! Facebook/Meta announcement. What's amusing is their approach to "branding" - terrible designs with famous brand names on them. "We know that many of you want to more fully represent yourselves and your interests by decking out your avatars with clothing from some of the world’s leading brands. When the Meta Avatars Store starts rolling out this week, we’ll offer digital outfits from Balenciaga, Prada and Thom Browne, three of the world’s most iconic fashion brands." Until 2021, Linden Lab had almost the only good avatar clothing system around. Now more systems are adding layered clothing. MetaHuman, MetaTailor, Roblox, etc. A standards organization is forming. Most of the major players are on board: Epic, Unity, NVidia, Microsoft, Autodesk, etc. Linden Lab is not listed. I think that Philip and Brad touched on this, they want to be the outliers and not be like the other big companies. Also these big companies sell your data. LL doesn't. That being said, they finally added legs? Lol 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nalates Urriah Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 31 minutes ago, LittleMe Jewell said: Why are their heads so big? Do they know nothing about proportions or are they intentionally all big-headed? Power, wealth, and fame all tend to swell one's head. 6 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cougar Sangria Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 These are the fugliest avatars I have ever seen, and I played Yoville lol. 6 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codex Alpha Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 What blows me away is that there are no shortage of qualified artists to create interesting and stylized clothing and avatars - they're all over the place. Believe me as a constantly growing artist it can be discouraging, awe-inspiring then after the shock buckle down and raise one's bar for oneself and improve... Yet companies with thousands and millions of dollars still can't make avatars that are cool. Companies seemingly refuse to use a standardized base rig so that users can upload their own avatars, and use those avatars on various platforms. Everyone talks 'metaverse' and a 'universe' to explore between companies, and at the same time each platform still forces proprietary things. And no, adding stripes to suit pants and suit jacket isn't cool, isn't hip so fire the artist and hire ones that will actually make cool clothing What users want universally it seems, even if they can't create it themselves, is a unique avatar. Mixing and matching a limited set of stuff means nothing - in the long term a user will want more that represents them. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenna Huntsman Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 Mii - now in the Metaverse! (change my mind). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sammy Huntsman Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 7 minutes ago, Codex Alpha said: What blows me away is that there are no shortage of qualified artists to create interesting and stylized clothing and avatars - they're all over the place. Believe me as a constantly growing artist it can be discouraging, awe-inspiring then after the shock buckle down and raise one's bar for oneself and improve... Yet companies with thousands and millions of dollars still can't make avatars that are cool. Companies seemingly refuse to use a standardized base rig so that users can upload their own avatars, and use those avatars on various platforms. Everyone talks 'metaverse' and a 'universe' to explore between companies, and at the same time each platform still forces proprietary things. And no, adding stripes to suit pants and suit jacket isn't cool, isn't hip so fire the artist and hire ones that will actually make cool clothing What users want universally it seems, even if they can't create it themselves, is a unique avatar. Mixing and matching a limited set of stuff means nothing - in the long term a user will want more that represents them. Zuckerberg did this as a marketing gimmick to attract more users. Meta is the laughing stock of the virtual worlds, he knows this. So how do you get a bunch of brainless people to join, with big well known brands selling their clothing virtually. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigmoe Whitfield Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 I aint getting rid of my ears. no go. 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bree Giffen Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 We should all encourage Meta to continue with this avatar style. It’s awesome. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galaxy Littlepaws Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 thanks, I hate it 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junique Tigerfish Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 Lmao,like are you kidding me.I don't think clothing is going to make that any better.I won't be joining metaverse anytime soon.So happy to see this post.I have been giggling since I saw these beauties. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilgamesh Alpha Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 Sucks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junique Tigerfish Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 7 hours ago, Luna Bliss said: https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce6yFgbptyM/ Oh my, Luna this is so funny.I don't know if I would be cool enough to wear this.🤣 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffee Pancake Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 2 hours ago, Bree Giffen said: We should all encourage Meta to continue with this avatar style. It’s awesome. It is, but not for obvious reasons. Stylized "cartoony" avatars age very well, they will look as ok in 5 years as they look today. An SL avatar on the other hand ages like milk, which is why we spend so much time and money constantly updating them. They don't fall into the uncanny valley, at all. We're used to how SL avatars look because we have trained ourselves to be ok looking at them. They are easily uncanny - a feeling you can recreate by just trying to find a new head for your own avatar. They are easier to make expressive, derpy big grins and wide eyes and over the top expressions actually work ok on simplistic avatars. They are so bad on SL avatars we go the extra step to disable that entirely and look like creepy dolls half the time. To someone who isn't used to assigning personal identity to an avatar, a simplistic avatar is a much easier gateway to the entire concept of an avatar. Personal uniqueness is easier to achieve, The crappy mark head looks like mark. It's instantly recognizable. The female avatar is Eva Chen - and it's easily close enough. Are these the best avatars possible or the most realistic, hell no, but we're sat here patting ourselves on the back for looking like something from a PS4 game with none of the facial expression and movement capabilities. Sure we look great in still pictures .. but real time SL and flickr SL are entirely different propositions. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akane Nacht Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 8 hours ago, animats said: terrible designs with famous brand names on them. They should use that as their tagline... I hear Millennials like honesty and authenticity in marketing 😇 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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