11-15-202102:25 PM - last edited on 06-22-202409:15 AM by TheAntiSocializer
Do you have any feedback and/or issues in regards to the Meta Avatars SDK? Use this place to discuss, as we'll have members of the engineering team reviewing this thread!
To be clear, I don’t believe this is a legal issue, pursuing that route would be a fool’s errand given how heavily the system favors large corporations. What I am doing is appealing to you, and to Meta as an organization I supported from the very beginning through the Oculus Kickstarter, to step up.
This situation calls for more than a simple apology and quiet closure. It demands recognition of the systemic breakdown in communication and delivery, a plan for how Meta intends to fix it, and a serious discussion about how to compensate developers for the significant time lost chasing SDK features that were publicly promoted but not functional.
If this hasn't already been escalated, I strongly encourage you to do so. I genuinely hope this conversation won’t just be closed, as I would much rather not escalate further. But at the same time, it’s clear there’s a lot of dry timber here, and ignoring it won’t prevent a fire.
Good—that’s a perspective I can appreciate and engage with. I’ll come back to this thread when I have something to discuss, but I can at least say that this is the sort of thing I take very seriously, and shining a light on breakdowns like this is one of the reasons why we have a community team at all.
I also am wondering - are you testing with ONLY the pre-built avatars? They work. And they work because they are the fallback for when the user avatar will not load from meta.
Users want their avatars, not the ones that come in the zip file.
Could we get an update please @CaseyAtMeta. Also, I like to point out that at the top of this thread, the second post responding to your former counterpart, was saying pretty much the same things about the Avatars not working right. That was from 2022 and it is pretty clear no one addressed this reasonable request in all these years. I really cannot beleive how bad things have become, but maybe it is going to finally turn around?
It has been over a month since we heard from you. Even a reply that you are still waiting for more info would be appreciated and honestly the least Meta can do given the situation. Look forward to hearing back from you this upcoming week.
I have a follow-up conversation with the documentation team this week to go through the history in more detail. I know this can be frustrating but I appreciate your patience.
