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As Meta, formerly-Facebook, tries to get its "Metaverse" off the ground, a quirky story made its way into The New York Times: a marriage in the Metaverse.
The bride walked down the aisle. The groom's buddy made a toast. There was dancing at the reception. And it all happened in the metaverse.https://t.co/QytfKWqZoh pic.twitter.com/zZevD7vD6g
β The New York Times (@nytimes) December 8, 2021
The story tells of the (non-legal) wedding ceremony held on behalf of Dave and Traci Gagnon. It was created through Virbela, a company that stages virtual events. An actual, in-person wedding ceremony was held on September 4th.
The story goes into the supposed future of Metaverse weddings (tl;dr: they won't be commonplace anytime soon), but what struck Twitter users the most was simply the poor graphical quality of the Gagnon's digital avatars. Many unfavorably compared the "Metaverse" wedding with virtual weddings held in video games like Second Life and Final Fantasy XIV.
the most prevalent criticism I saw of the nyt advertising a "metaverse" wedding isn't that the concept itself is offensive but that other online games have superior wedding ceremonies
β Nightmare Vision (@GodCloseMyEyes) December 9, 2021
A Second Life wedding in 2009 vs. a 'metaverse' wedding in 2021. Incredible graphics https://t.co/zeYaWvUtjk https://t.co/XQesNuLoQu pic.twitter.com/DqrhAT8ing
β Drew Harwell (@drewharwell) December 8, 2021
virgin metaverse wedding versus chad ffxiv wedding pic.twitter.com/E8v9kOUPxR
β sisi jiang / ε§ζηͺ (@six6jiang) December 8, 2021
From Second Life to Final Fantasy Online to Warcraft to WiiSports, people have gotten married in virtual ceremonies. But now that Mark Zuckerberg has renamed his disinformation empire after the metaverse, itβs time to showcase video game weddings as if theyβre new pic.twitter.com/0abnGmE2rf
β Heather Anne Campbell (@heathercampbell) December 8, 2021
virgin metaverse wedding vs chad ragnarok online wedding https://t.co/EFwbxSSqq4 pic.twitter.com/6fVoXYP6pv
β Leo β¨ (@leo__ow) December 8, 2021
Animal Crossing New Horizons has much cuter weddings than metaverse weddings pic.twitter.com/XQl9zrfrQG
β π±π° An adorable kitty bun π°π± BLM!! (@TommoTheCabbit) December 8, 2021
the virgin metaverse wedding vs the chad eorzean ceremony of eternal bonding pic.twitter.com/e8kkLJamoX
β Meredith Russo, When the Walls Fell (@Mer_Squared) December 8, 2021
It seems the prevailing sentiment around Metaverse weddings is that if you want to hold a ceremony in the digital space, there are plenty more attractive options available.
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