Now yes: Mark Zuckerberg shows that he has legs in his metaverse

Zuckerberg announced the new avatars, which will be implemented later this year on mobile phones and virtual reality headsets.

By iProfessional

10/13/2022 – 08:20 a.m.

mark zuckerbergCEO of Meta, presented his new avatar, which includes his legs for the first time, in real time during the Connect conferences held at the metaverse of the company.

The founder of Facebook debuted at a public conference in the metaverse Horizon World of Meta.

During the meeting, Zuckerberg announced the new avatars, which will be implemented later this year in mobile phones and virtual reality headsetswhich will be “more expressive and detailed than anything else today”.

The new avatars will have legs, something Zuckerberg says was “probably most requested feature on our roadmap.

The avatars of the metaverse did not have legs because in the virtual reality it’s harder to pinpoint body parts, like legs, the Facebook founder explained.

“But, seriously, legs are hardso other VR systems don’t have them either,” Zuckerberg said.

Avatars that look like Sims

After the announcement of virtual reality viewerZuckerberg took the opportunity to present the new avatars that will populate the metaverse that he builds.

After criticism for poor quality graphicsthe great novelty is that now they have improved and have legs.

With the annex of the journey Meta follows the example of Nintendo at Wii Sportswhose first version, the characters were flashy floating torsos.

After one year of life without lower limbsthe avatars of Horizon Worlds can finally jump for joy.

With the addition of the other half of the body, the avatars look more and more like the sims world characters.

But it is not the only change. The community of these avatars enriched their range of expressions and now he can raise his eyebrows and make new facial expressions.

Xbox Cloud Gaming arrives in Zuckerberg’s metaverse

The company announced that it will work on the characters and therefore there will be more improvements for these personalities before the end of the year.

Meta leads inverted more than 10,000 million dollars on its virtual reality platform so far this year.

However, he did not detail the percentage of this budget dedicated to enriching the lower half of the avatars.

Another support point of this metaverse meta are the games. During the conference some titles such as Among US VR, or Marvel’s Iron Man VR were announced.

It was also announced that Xbox CloudGaming will be available in the Meta Quest Store.

Most of those games need realistic interoperable avatarsor at least have legs.

Criticism against Zuckerberg by the metaverse

Zuckerberg’s announcement came just months after the businessman was criticized on social media for an unrealistic avatar he posted on Instagram.

Social media users scoffed at the image, which showed Zuckerberg’s avatar standing in front of the Eiffel Tower. Some compared the graphics to older video games like Zelda and Quake.

The millionaire admitted that the original photo he shared was “pretty basic” because it was “taken very quickly to celebrate the launch” of Horizon Worlds in France and Spain.

He proposed to remake his virtual figure to end the memes and criticism. For this she published a new version of her avatar and a representation of an environment in the style of the old one. Rome much more realistic.