In this week’s blog assignment we were tasked to visit a metaverse experience and take some notes on it. I went to the Cuervo Discovery Garden. It was essentially a meta verse where you tend to an agave field, you water the plants and get rid of the sage. It was interesting because you got to actually create an avatar instead of just having a robot looking thing. The rendering of the world was also pretty advanced for what I have seen in other meta verses.
Some things that worked well was , as previously stated, was the rendering, customization, and movement. Some things that could have been fixed was the selection function, because you are using your mouse to move the camera it makes it difficult to select things at first, it becomes slightly easier but not enough.
This is not something I see myself becoming interested in in the future, perhaps I will be eating my own words, but I have a short attention span for things on a screen of this nature. For example I can only play video games for so long before needing to change the game and or do something completely different.
I think the potential for advertisement is definitely there, but for a very specific demographic. People like me at this very moment are never going to be on the meta-verse voluntarily.
I do however believe this will work as a great entertainment tool, mainly because things like it have already existed and are relatively popular. This is the first of its kind that is available on the browser without having to download software so it has a leg up in that realm.