Metaverse Weekly: Horizon Workrooms, Top 20 Indie games on Steam, Visa in the Metaverse, and Twelve Minutes.
August 23rd, 2021
A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we’re good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression.”
Horizon Workrooms
Working remotely from home is no longer a new concept to us, thankfully Facebook has solved the concern of losing personal connection. Horizon Workrooms is an infinite office space where you can meet, create, share your schedules, screens, and a sense of space.
While being in a simulated, sense stimulating environment has shown improved focus and quality of work, there is one main issue with Facebook’s Horizon Workrooms: The Avatars. As Peter Rubin from Wired states, “Its not not creepy.” While the avatars are able to be customized and mimic your movement, such as hand gestures, they do not move their mouths while talking ( nor do they blink). While this may be able to be fixed at a later date, it currently leaves the Horizon Workrooms Metaverse feeling rather robotic.
Although the virtual workspace currently leaves users feeling creeped out by the not blinking or mouth moving avatars, Horizon Workrooms strives to create an environment to be explored not only from a work setting- but a creative one as well. Horizon Workrooms allows for people to express their identity through their clothing, eye color, hair, and dress. This helps give each avatar a personal feeling, rather than a robotic one. Each user is also able to share their computer screen, their camera, and draw on an in platform whiteboard. This helps create a sense of space that Zoom currently lacks. Zoom and Horizon Workrooms act in the same way that people join a call to enter the shared space.
Steam releases the top 20 new games for July 2021
1.)Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin
2.)The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles
3.)Orcs Must Die! 3
4.)Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector
5.)GrandChase
6.)FINAL FANTASY III
7.)The Ascent
8.)FINAL FANTASY
9.)SAMURAI WARRIORS 5
10.)FINAL FANTASY II
11.)Death’s Door
12.)Hell Let Loose
13.)Mini Motorways
14.)Ys IX: Monstrum Nox
15.)Chernobylite
16.)Starbase
17.)Swords of Legends Online
18.)Ghost Hunters Corp
19.)Tribes of Midgard
20.)F1® 2021
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Visa Enters the Metaverse
The pixelated artwork named CryptoPunk 7610 has bright green eyes, and a bold red lip. This NFT happens to be owned by one of the largest digital payment giants in the world, Visa. Spending $150,000 on the NFT ( or 49.5ETH), Anchorage has helped facilitate the deal becoming the first U.S bank to custody a Non Fungible Token. By placing CryptoPunk 7610 in a digital vault, only accessible by Visa through their key, many wonder the security of digital vaults and if people will be able to secure their personal NFT’s in them as the Metaverse continues to expand.
Spotlight
This week we are spotlighting the game Twelve Minutes! Featuring Daisy Ridley, William Dafoe, and James McAvoy, Twelve Minutes highlights a thriller adventure stuck in a tumultuous time loop. Will you survive?
Twelve Minutes is currently the highest rated indie game on Steam and is also available on Xbox.
Observation and Reflections
New PS5 Model ships to customers.
Rare Game and Watch Breaks a New Record
