Comment by rasz
7 days ago
Virtual reality people are still trying to deliver this "vison". I remember first cringe idea of how a web shopping would work by rendering physical supermarket shelves with VRML and users having to walk the aisles full of 3d modeled products. I think it was by Walmart? and they didnt stop with that one demo, here another try from 2017 https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2022/1/5/22868323/walmart-meta...
Oh wow, I just realized that the following VR parody might have been inspired by Microsoft Bob :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4FGzE4endQ
(2015, so 4 years before Zuckerberg committed to the Metaverse enough to rename the whole company, and still 1 year before the first commercial new generation VR headset : Oculus Rift released.)