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.
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2026
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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.
It appears their "Verified Solutions" program is meant to help make and promote it: https://docs.unity3d.com/2023.1/Documentation/Manual/verifiedsolutions.html
There’s no polite way to say this, so I’ll say it like this:
This is fucking pathetic.
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.
The concept of buying real items inside a videogame has never made sense to me.
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...
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).
Of course, this will never happen. If a store had a budget to make this, they could use that budget to make their online shopping website 10x better instead.
Finally we have a solution to "I want to play a game, but feel like I'm at Walmart."
There's been a few Store-something Simulator lately, soo maybe
Oddly enough that's not far from how many Unity games already felt.
I cannot imagine wanting that to be in a game you're playing
Is this actually real? Is it really no a satire?