Facebook’s virtual world metaverse is getting a large upgrade. After a twelvemonth of being floating torsos, radical successful Horizon Worlds are yet getting feet. The diagnostic is acceptable to motorboat sometime successful 2023. Please clap.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed the diagnostic during the Meta Connect lawsuit connected Tuesday by walking retired successful VR connected a wood-paneled signifier arsenic a full-blown, Fortnite-looking avatar portion a clump of old, legless Horizon Worlds avatars clapped successful the audience. In summation to having legs and feet, Zuckerberg’s look and assemblage besides looked a batch little soulless than successful the erstwhile iteration. “I cognize you’ve been waiting for this,” Zuckerberg said arsenic helium spoke astatine magnitude astir VR’s hottest caller feature, feet.

The caput of Meta was roasted backmost successful August aft helium posted an highly haunting and underwhelming selfie of his VR avatar posing adjacent to a low-res mini-Eiffel Tower. He followed up a fewer days later with a much life-like rendering of his look that helium said would beryllium coming to Horizon successful the future.

Today’s exemplary is intelligibly an hold of that aboriginal rendering, and yet brings the VR level past the likes of Fire Emblem: Awakening connected the Nintendo 3DS, different crippled that lacked legs. And that was with Meta lone spending $10 cardinal this twelvemonth connected the technology. Who knows what different tiny luck volition bring? If thing tin catapult the Oculus storefront into the green, it’s a burgeoning marketplace for VR feet pics. It mightiness look similar we’re being ridiculous here, but bash cognize that the unrecorded chat alongside the virtual assemblage watching each of this unfold perfectly exploded erstwhile Zuckerberg started talking astir feet.

Zuckerberg said the much customizable and elaborate models volition statesman rolling retired adjacent year. The limb update volition beryllium a portion of a company-wide propulsion to marque definite people’s avatars, from their facial expressions to their clothing, are disposable successful different parts of the Oculus level arsenic well. Interoperability—the thought of a user’s objects and quality pursuing them from 1 virtual world to another—is a large situation for companies with ambitions of creating a alleged “metaverse.” Zuckerberg spent assorted different points during today’s Meta Connect talking astir collaborations with different companies to marque that possible, including Microsoft, whose squad meetings and different productivity tools volition beryllium integrated with Oculus VR. He besides truly emphasized that legs were hard, guys, and that’s wherefore it took them truthful agelong to integrate.

Even without seamless question from 1 portion of the Oculus level to the next, astatine slightest present Horizon avatars tin play soccer. Meta announced Game Pass was coming to VR today. Maybe Switch Sports volition get immoderate time too. That would beryllium 1 mode to person Meta employees to really usage Horizon.