There’s no polite way to say this, so I’ll say it like this:
This is fucking pathetic.
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
I cannot imagine wanting that to be in a game you're playing
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'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.
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.
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...
I could see it for some things. It would be great for browsing 3D print models or furniture—items where the shape/size matter a lot.
Like, an IKEA app that uses AR passthrough to show furniture options in your space? That'd be really cool, if it could be trusted not to spy on you.
Or an interior design app, that gave you a variety of options it pulls from a variety of sources, and you could add items to your cart right from the app?
For 3D prints, it would be great to have a virtual storefront of models to see, pick up, rotate, etc. 3D print .STL files are shockingly large (often 100MB+ for a single model), so idk if it's realistic, but it would be a great use case if it was feasible. (My current special interest is showing...)
Is this actually real? Is it really no a satire?
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.
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.
Products that are only sold at Walmart or something they have a deal to market? 🤷♀️
So, we're all agreed, right? Justifiable homicide?