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July 1, 2022

A festival in the metaverse? The future isn’t here yet

It wasn’t as douchey as it sounds


Georgina Ustik

7 min read

It’s festival season. And I, like many of us in the UK, had to sit through endless pictures and videos of friends at Glastonbury last week.

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The 00s Windows-themed login page to the Meta Festival
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