Mark Gongloff, Columnist

Here’s What It’s Really Like Inside the Metaverse

It’s light on the fun socializing and heavy on the creeping and griefing.

December 15, 2021 at 10:12 PM UTC

Mark Gongloff is a Bloomberg Opinion editor and columnist covering climate change. He previously worked for Fortune.com, the Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal.

All fun and games until somebody makes animal noises at you.
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The Mark Zuckerberg video announcing Facebook’s transition into Meta imagined a virtual-reality metaverse where happy avatars of your friends and family join you in fantastic spaces to play games, enjoy art and crunch quarterly user data.