It does look goofy, doesn't it? Like an elaborate joke. I'm not trying to shit on people's hard work, but it all looks so, I don't know.. bland and not interesting AT ALL. Like Second life meets that playstation thing, but even worse somehow.
I'll happily spend an evening watching vrchat shenanigans or 2.5D vtubers but this thing just goes so far beyond 'corporate inoffensiveness squeezed the soul out of it'. It's like the developers actively disdain their own work.
Sometimes good work needs to be shit on in a constructive way.
This is bloody awful quality in visual quality and marketing. You want to show something that works well. This... this does not "work", let alone well.
That sounds truly painful for all the creatives involved. They must be either sad or disengaged. This is obviously a whole different ball of wax than making a copy of TikTok or whatever else they decide to clone, so you just cannot set priorities or judge quality the same way.
It’s sad on a creative level but from a career perspective, many of my friends (from when I worked in film) are earning multiples of what they earned previously, and are doing less work at the same time.
So it’s easy to just give in and do the lowered task at hand rather than fight for the high end work they were hired to do.
It seems more likely to me that they have art directors, they're just the same ones that design the weird corporate advertising art with the tiny heads. It's very "safe" for lack of a better word.
Safe works when you're selling productivity software, but not when the product is (partially) the art/design/environment.
