Unity launches Walmart SDK to "seamlessly integrate products" into games

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• tiny_hedgehog@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s no polite way to say this, so I’ll say it like this:

  This is fucking pathetic.

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• Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Godot meanwhile…

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  • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• savvywolf@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I could be wrong, but isn’t the title a bit misleading? As far as I can tell, Walmart made an SDK thing and pushed it to the Unity asset store. I don’t think Unity specifically went out of their way to make or promote it.

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  • bl4kers@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It appears their “Verified Solutions” program is meant to help make and promote it: docs.unity3d.com/2023.1/…/verifiedsolutions.html

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• Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Finally we have a solution to “I want to play a game, but feel like I’m at Walmart.”

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  • SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There's been a few Store-something Simulator lately, soo maybe

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  • pimento64@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oddly enough that’s not far from how many Unity games already felt.

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• frank@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I cannot imagine wanting that to be in a game you’re playing

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• RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve been thinking for a while about once vr gets adopted more we could make virtual reality storefronts to use instead of websites. It would be fun I think.

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  • Euphoma@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The concept of buying real items inside a videogame has never made sense to me.

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    • dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A high quality VR store where I can actually physically browse the isles would be superior to trying to browse a 2D website. And being able to pick up a product, with a realistic 3D model, look at it from any angle and visually compare packaging sizes across brands - like I can in a real store but can’t on a website - would be nice.

      I can’t tell you how many times I accidentally ordered a too small or too big version of something, because product photos on websites are always the same size (just fill the frame).

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    • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      With RickyRigatoni’s idea, it wouldn’t be a videogame. It would be a separate program you launch specifically to order things online. It just happens to use a game engine for its implementation, because game engines are the most advanced simulation tool humanity has developed…

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  • fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I'd be for it. Just go in VR, the entire map of the store is before you. You'll browse aisles, you'll find what you want and there will be tickers to tell you how many things are left that is based on real-time information. No stupid fucking people in your way or anything.

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  • Sunsofold@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Welcome to the future.

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• gegil@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is this actually real? Is it really no a satire?

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• Toneswirly@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The real question is: How is this ever going to make money for Walmart? The second a developer tries to put this in a game they’re gonna be laughed off the internet.

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  • W3dd1e@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Products that are only sold at Walmart or something they have a deal to market? 🤷‍♀️

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  • petrescatraian@libranet.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They likely won't. More likely, the devs will put these products in the most funny places (say, billboards on the side of the road in American Truck Simulator). They'll keep this thing running for ~5 years and they'll axe it.

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• Sunsofold@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So, we’re all agreed, right? Justifiable homicide?

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