MLB's virtual ballpark returns for four regular-season games in September

Major League Baseball's virtual ballpark is back. Like a metaverse experience for traditional (non-VR) devices, it lets you watch actual games as they're happening in real time, albeit recreated in a 3D environment. MLB will host interactive watch parties in the environment for select games each Wednesday in September. Like a baseball-centric take on Second Life (for the old folks in the back), it includes 3D avatars corresponding to players' movements. The plays and athletes' precise positions ...