(New York Times)

As Meta, formerly-Facebook, tries to get its "Metaverse" off the ground, a quirky story made its way into The New York Times: a marriage in the Metaverse.

The story tells of the (non-legal) wedding ceremony held on behalf of Dave and Traci Gagnon. It was created through Virbela, a company that stages virtual events. An actual, in-person wedding ceremony was held on September 4th.

The story goes into the supposed future of Metaverse weddings (tl;dr: they won't be commonplace anytime soon), but what struck Twitter users the most was simply the poor graphical quality of the Gagnon's digital avatars. Many unfavorably compared the "Metaverse" wedding with virtual weddings held in video games like Second Life and Final Fantasy XIV.

It seems the prevailing sentiment around Metaverse weddings is that if you want to hold a ceremony in the digital space, there are plenty more attractive options available.


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Weimario

I don't know what Metaverse's budget is, but clearly not enough of it went into the graphics.

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bmxbandit

Even minecraft has better graphics, and it's mostly cubes

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wisehowl_the_2nd

Oh they're actually trying to be Second Life for normies. I'm amazed at how marketing can turn a strictly inferior version of an already-established and arguably shitty idea into something exciting for clueless consumers who don't research the market. Metaverse is such a fucking joke but at least now I have a "superior format lost to inferior format" story ala betamax or whatever to my metagrandchildren.

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Venusgate

Betamax was "better" by a margin, not a country mile, 3 decades early.

If Betamax vs VHS was a console war, Metaverse is the Hit Clips to the iPod Nano.

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Phhase

Ugh. Corpos. This. Curse Facebook for coining that name.

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Pro Superstar

Gotta love the confusion caused by a company rebranding during this coincidental new trendy name for the Internet partly influenced by billionaire worshipers new to the digital world.

This shit is old news but I'm glad this talk is bringing a cultural shift, hopefully one that also moves away from Facebook.

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