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It’s Sunday, and I’m on stage in… Soapstone Comedy club in the metaverse. My virtual reality avatar is wearing a black suit, tie, sunglasses, and an unfortunate fedora that I chose from the free clothing collection for your virtual dolls deadHorizon worlds. After the show, a guy with the user name Large Phenis showed up at the bar next to me. “Hey, Blues Brothers,” he guffaws — a tough crowd.
Soapstone For adults only The Digital Comedy Club has been around since almost the beginning of the Meta’s Horizon Worlds. It has hosted more than 5,000 events, ranging from improv and stand-up to trivia nights and sing-alongs. It has had partnerships with Famous comedians Like Natasha Leggero, Ron Funches, and Pete Holmes. It has also served as a hub for regular visitors who seem to really love the place.
Last week, Meta announced that she would do so close Horizon Worlds in VR to focus on its mobile version; He – she Pivotal the next day After community backlash to keep it running indefinitely. Now, the service is on life support. By June 15, Meta plans to cut back on VR creation features and stop letting users create updates or new content on the platform — no more new worlds or seasonal updates, except on mobile.
“Soapstone is a world created by a third-party creator and is currently available as a mobile world and a VR world,” a Meta representative wrote in an email to WIRED. “The VR version is built on the Horizon Unity Runtime (HUR), and all HUR worlds will live in VR for the foreseeable future,” said our CTO, Andrew Bosworth. he said in his AMA“.
For the past year and a half, Soapstone user Miss Del Rey has hosted these programs Improvement on Sunday He appears. She is from Sweden, has bright red hair, a red dress and hat, and gold knee-high boots.
“It was surprising that they shut this down so soon,” Ms. Del Rey says of the initial VR news. “It was this huge production, and now it’s disappearing.”
In Soapstone Sunday’s first stand-up show since the Meta closed, the people who are here to joke around with their brightly colored avatars aren’t sure what’s coming next. Soapstone says it will continue into the mobile era, but it’s not clear whether users will follow suit.
“People are terrified of uncertainty,” Del Rey says. “Doing it on VR might not be profitable, but I don’t think Meta understands that How important this place is For many people. I don’t know what my life would be like today without Soapstone.
Over the next hour, Del Rey and her host Millspertic ran volunteers through classic improv games, pulling scenes out of a hat or asking a group to tell a story one word at a time that quickly delves into debauchery. (“My anaconda is small and dirty,” the group decided.)