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I Went Clubbing in Virtual Reality: Raves of the Metaverse

Season 1 Episode 4 | 12m 45s

Using the platform VRChat, people can design unique worlds and avatars. These avatars can also track to a user's full body movements. With this new technology, dance scenes began to form in 2018 starting with the club Dance Dance VR. In this episode of Subcultured, Josef meets the creatives that invented an underground dance scene in the metaverse.

Aired: 04/06/22
I Went Clubbing in Virtual Reality: Raves of the Metaverse
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