A new VR game wants us to escape the metaverse

The dream, or nightmare, of thepossibilities of metaversesseem to be everywhere at the start of 2022.

Tender Claws also explored social spaces and live performance in its follow-up game,The Under Presents.

Virtual Virtual Reality 2 is a single-player experience, not a true online space.

Many questions on the nature of metaverses appear to be raised along the way.

Some of them, like consciousness-uploading, are reminiscent of ideaswrestled with for yearsin science fiction.

Virtual Virtual Reality 2 arrives on Feb. 10.

I’ll be reviewing it before its release.