Back Stage at a Metaverse Concert
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The Wall Street Journal
4.2 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A few weeks ago, I went to a concert to see a performance by Ty Verde's. |
| 0:11.1 | But this concert was unlike anything I'd been to before because it took place in a strange |
| 0:16.2 | new virtual venue in the metaverse. |
| 0:19.9 | I recorded myself logging on. |
| 0:22.0 | Alright, it's about 2 o'clock in the afternoon. I'm at home and I am about to go to a concert |
| 0:32.4 | in the metaverse. |
| 0:34.6 | But I am on a boardwalk. |
| 0:40.4 | I've got my little avatar here. |
| 0:41.7 | I look like a Lego man. |
| 0:43.2 | It's like I'm in Santa Monica or something. |
| 0:45.7 | There's like a Ferris wheel. |
| 0:48.4 | I can jump around. |
| 0:50.0 | Wow, now we're like in a new world and there's Ty. |
| 0:54.6 | He's like enormous. |
| 0:55.6 | I can launch into a cannon into a hang glide. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm hang gliding around this virtual world with palm trees and ocean and trees and cliffs |
| 1:06.4 | and waterfalls and a giant Ty Verde. |
| 1:12.6 | I spent about 20 minutes in the metaverse and then I got out and went back to the universe |
| 1:17.6 | where I don't look like a Lego man. |
| 1:20.6 | But where I also don't get to hang glide. |
| 1:23.3 | Concerts like the one Ty Verde is just held in the metaverse are becoming increasingly |
| 1:27.6 | popular. |
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