Tech giant Sony has shown a brief glimpse of the metaverse experience it’s building with Manchester City football club at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2023.

Sony and Manchester City call this experience a “proof of concept” (PoC), which will allow players to take part in activities in a virtual version of the team’s Etihad Stadium with their own personalized avatars, The Verge reports.

In an official video released by ‘Sony-Global’, the virtual avatars run around the stadium and the field, dancing and celebrating together.

Avatars, 3D images and “other exclusive expressions of the metaverse” will allow gamers to communicate “in a new way,” said Nami Iwamoto, a senior product planner at Sony, during the tech giant’s CES 2023…