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- 01 30, 2025
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at the Soapstone Comedy Club. In fact, it always is. The club is a space in Horizon Worlds, Meta’s flagship app, where users can watch and perform comedy in virtual reality (). “It’s hard to do stand-up when you have no legs,” quips one performer, gesturing to his hovering avatar, before accidentally dropping the virtual microphone and floating offstage. A night out in lacks some of the atmosphere of a real bar, though it does cause authentic dizziness and nausea.It is almost a year since Mark Zuckerberg announced that his company would from Facebook to Meta, to reflect its commitment to the metaverse and, no doubt, to escape the firm’s . Many were unsure what the word meant, but with the company’s value at a near-all-time high of $1.1trn, and its core social-network advertising business humming away on the back of a pandemic boom, investors were willing to indulge the experiment.