An image Mark Zuckerberg recently posted to his Facebook page -- which was met with swift criticism online -- served as a reality check of sorts for virtual reality, at least in its current form.
The image, which was also included in a company blog post, showed his blocky, cartoon-like avatar in Facebook-parent Meta's flagship social app, Horizon Worlds, staring out into the distance with enormous, vacant-looking eyes and a tight-lipped smile. In the background, plopped onto a field of green grass, were simple-looking models of the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona, to mark the launch of Horizon Worlds in France and Spain in mid-August.
At its most basic, untethered headsets like Meta's Quest 2 still have a slew of technical limitations that make it hard for apps to offer extremely detailed VR avatars that can also respond in real time to the ways we move our faces and other body parts. There can be limitations related to the power of the computer, graphics processor, and the amount of included RAM.
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