• The EU spent €387,000 ($407,000) on a metaverse to promote a new strategy.
• But the 24-hour launch party saw only a handful of attendees.
• A journalist who attended said he was one of six people at the event.

This story originally appeared on Business Insider.

The European Union threw a 24-hour party in its $407,000 metaverse, but only a handful of people showed up, according to journalist vince Chadwick, one of the attendees.

Last week’s event was billed as a “beach party” featuring “music and fun” to launch the EU’s “Global Gateway” strategy.

When the expensive world of virtual reality was first shown off in October,…