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Angels-Rays in MLB's virtual ballpark? How baseball in the metaverse works.

A baseball with MLB logo is seen at Citizens Bank Park before a game between the Washington Nationals and Philadelphia Phillies on June 28, 2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Watching a baseball game through a stream on your phone or laptop is one thing. Have you ever wondered what that experience would be like in the metaverse?

Enter: Major League Baseball's next digital game-viewing experience, a virtual ballpark to be rolled out for the Angels' game against the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday, the first time this technology will be used in an MLB game.

The virtual ballpark is pretty much what it sounds like — a digital, 3-D landscape of a ballpark, synced with MLB's Gameday

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