Walmart Metaverse Looks Like Hell

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. And while there certainly is a great deal of hype from Silicon Valley behind the metaverse, it seems like no one has asked if this is anything the public wants.

A proof of concept video presented in 2017 at SXSW recently resurfaced, imagining what shopping at Walmart in virtual reality would look like. Created by, the VR experience imagines what the future of shopping at Walmart might look like with users navigating a virtual supermarket, grabbing products off digital shelves that instantly show things like nutrition facts, price comparisons or recipe recommendations, and having their order shipped off to them via drone.

As many Twitter users point out, there really is no point in reinventing the wheel when eCommerce is perfectly fine the way it is now. From serious cynical critiques to satirical dystopian visions about what a Walmart metaverse might look like, check out the best reactions and memes, below. "Your size has already been verified, put back those XL condoms".https://twitter.com/DigitalisHomo/status/1478094074909540354; &#x2026— neural net guesses memes

please get vaccinated i can;&#x2019t do this. i can;&#x2019t do thishttps://twitter.com/DigitalisHomo/status/1478094074909540354; &#x2026Looks like they've got rid of all the good things about going to the shops and kept all the bad things. It also looks painfully slow.\n\nHowever, they'll probably win, and at some point I'll have to be taught how to do this by my kids.

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