Joe Rogan had a significant VR gaming request for Mark Zuckerberg, however the Meta CEO shut down his thought for one massive purpose.
Fb creator Mark Zuckerberg made a shock look on the Joe Rogan podcast on January 10 to debate Meta’s new free speech insurance policies and different matters.
Through the dialog, the subject of VR gaming got here up, with Rogan explaining that he had grow to be hooked on the zombie recreation Deadwood Mansion.
“How lengthy earlier than you guys develop some form of a haptic suggestions swimsuit the place it covers the entire physique?” Rogan inquired. “Is that potential?”
Whereas Zuckerberg stated the concept was doable, he finally moved away from the concept, explaining that there have been extra vital issues to ship and why such an idea has some main flaws.
Mark Zuckerberg makes use of preventing to shoot down Joe Rogan’s VR thought
In line with Zuckerberg, the present aim of VR is to present customers a “reasonable sense of presence,” however no know-how in the present day can provide gamers the sensation that they’re really bodily there with one other individual.
Mark famous that with reference to a full-body haptic swimsuit, there are some areas it may work properly in, utilizing boxing and kickboxing video games the place gamers get hit within the abdomen.
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“You’ll be able to most likely simulate one thing like that a bit. It’s not going to have the ability to ship that a lot power, so I imply I suppose that’s possibly factor as a result of nobody desires to get punched within the abdomen that onerous. However it’s not going to have the ability to ship sufficient power,” he stated.
“There’s not going to be something that you are able to do as a single individual taking part in VR with a haptic swimsuit that like makes it so that you simply’re going to have the ability to kick somebody who’s not there bodily and truly have the ability to try this,” he added.
Zuckerberg, who has been pushing Meta Quest 3 exhausting, additionally famous that one thing like Jiu-Jitsu can be the very last thing that we’re capable of do in VR, due to the momentum wanted to maneuver somebody.
That stated, there are another ideas the place a haptic swimsuit may work, with Zuck pointing to getting shot or sword preventing as examples.
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“You’ll be able to like simply really feel it in your physique, however I don’t know. I feel what’s mainly going to finish up taking place is you’re going to have like a house arrange for this stuff and you then’re going to have these location-based companies the place it’s nearly like a theme park the place you may go into and it may and you’ll have a extremely immersive VR expertise.”
Nevertheless, this wouldn’t simply imply a consumer will get a vest that simulates haptics, however quite, the setting itself must contain smoke and sprays.
“I feel that it it nonetheless goes to be some time earlier than you may identical to create all these Sensations so I feel lots of these actually wealthy experiences are going to be in these very constructed environments,” Zuckerberg famous.
Whereas it might not have been the response Rogan wished to listen to, it’s clear that the JRE host is worked up about the potential of zombie apocalypse video games reaching a sensible new stage within the years forward.
