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Outside of my day job reporting on science and technology, I teach pole dance. While scrolling through social media in between classes, I was “blessed by the algorithm,” as my colleague would say, and came across a video of a pole dancer performing in a nightclub. Her shoulder-length hair seemed to glow as she spun counter-clockwise, clad in a long sleeve black bodysuit. Her skin appeared grayish, and her long tail bounced behind her.
Did I mention she was pole dancing in the metaverse?
This creator, a Copenhagen-based virtual reality artist who uses the handle R00t, told The Daily Beast that she started working in VR in 2013. If it weren’t for the ability to put on a headset and stream as her avatar dancing, R00t said she wouldn’t have taken up pole dancing in the first place.
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