New to Major League Baseball (MLB) “Virtual Stadium” Coming to the web and opening to the public this Saturday celebrity softball game. According to MLB, it will include social elements that allow fans to interact with each other, as well as mini-games and avatars that can be customized with MLB team jerseys.

As for how this actually kicks in, it’s… exactly what you’d expect. It’s a big virtual baseball stadium with stands full of people. The ballpark has giant screens that livestream games and other content. There are no seats for avatars, but I am happy to report that they seem to have legs to stand on. There is also a large outdoor area with a city backdrop, but none of the images show people walking around.

This experience was created by Improbable, a UK-based virtual reality company founded in 2012. closed a subsidiary Impossible U.S. Defense and National Security was engaged in a “military metaverse” focused on commercial efforts like this one. Improbable says it will be “the ultimate lag-free experience.”

At this time, this appears to be a web-based experience only. As such, it requires some ingenuity to make it work with a real VR headset. The metaverse goes awry as companies beyond the metaverse are trying to understand exactly what the metaverse is and how to take advantage of it. So far, no one-size-fits-all definition has existed, leaving us with an awkward and sad experiment disconnected from the wider virtual world, ultimately leading to an MLB-like proposal of 90 It feels like an internet promise of the 1990s, or it might not be good.