A Brut journalist shows you what it is like to be in the metaverse.
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00:00Today, I'm going to be joining the Metaverse. I've never done it before. Is that a beach?
00:11I think I'm stuck on a wall. Those lights look amazing. What we are going to try today
00:17is this website called Decentraland because it's the only one which will allow us to visit
00:25the Metaverse without a crypto wallet. I don't have a laptop with a really high quality like
00:30a heavy-duty graphics card and it wouldn't let me in until I had to clean out all my cookies
00:35and relaunch the browser. This is a page where we create our character. I can pick either a male or
00:42a female body shape. I can also pick the skin tone which I think is a nice tool to have.
00:48I'm just going to start exploring and see what happens. Okay, so there seem to be a bunch of
00:56people here. There's Yoyohoney who has a mohawk. Let me just get through this horde of people
01:02and here we are. I've never jumped into a fountain in real life but I want to see if we can do that
01:08here. I think I might explore the map to see if I can go somewhere else. Is that a beach?
01:14It's in blue which makes me think that it's not available for me playing as a guest. So these
01:22green walls that I see here means that I can't really walk through them but that's where the
01:28beach looks like it is. Is that the Paris Hotel? Is that the Eiffel Tower? It's actually pretty
01:35cool to see that they do have the iconic Vegas structures and hotels that you can walk around.
01:41So if you've never been to Vegas, you can still go. Can we play these games?
01:49Doesn't look like it. The graphics really are pretty cool. If they had like a place in the
01:55map or a place in India that we're familiar with. So for instance, if you're stuck at home and you
01:59want to meet your friends in Khan Market or someplace that would have really, I mean I
02:05would have been able to relate with it much better. Let's get a drink. I'm stuck on a wall
02:11how do I get out? I'm gonna try jumping. It looks like a waterfall. I wonder if I can get in.
02:20Most of these places are in blue which is kind of a bummer because I would have liked to go to a
02:24few of them. Some of these locations seem to take a lot of time to load. So was I able to explore
02:31the metaverse without having a Windows PC, a heavy-duty graphics card or even a crypto wallet?
02:37Yes. But was I able to really make use of all the amenities available in the metaverse? Was I
02:45able to interact with others? Was I able to visit a lot of places? No. The world's your oyster,
02:51you can do anything here.