Resurfaced Walmart virtual shopping video sparks online ridicule: ‘I would rather poke my own eyeballs’
The IndependentThe latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Mutual Mobile, an end-to-end development company that builds “transformative digital experiences” for its clients, told social media users on Thursday that it was behind the VR version of Walmart. “Almost 5 years later, this demo is proof of how experimental VR once was and how far it has come today!” The nearly five-minute-long clip shows what a virtual shopping experience at Walmart could look like in future, with a digital shopping assistant aiding the trip around a virtual store. On Monday, dozens of social media users mocked the virtual reality Walmart for being both a waste of time and “not realistic”, and more than 10 million people watched the video on Twitter alone. One person however said: “I would rather poke my own eyeballs with a rusty fork than spend even a single second of my life in a ‘metaverse’ VR walmart.
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