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The EU spends €387,000 on a metaverse and hosts a gala with little attendance

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The EU spends €387,000 on a metaverse and hosts a gala with little attendance

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A “metaverse gala” event organized by the European Commission in November attracted only a handful of avatars mistaken for balloons.

The gala was part of the €387,000 Metaverse project, funded by the European Commission’s foreign aid department, to engage young people in the EU through the so-called Global Gateway campaign.

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But that interest is hard to gauge when few turn out for an online party that Berlin-based tech company Journee, which had been outsourced to design, promised to connect people in a “revolutionary way.”

The European Commission may have…

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