At the two-hour hearing held by Colombia's Magdalena Administrative court, participants a traffic dispute appeared as avatars in a virtual courtroom. Magistrate Maria Quinonez Triana's avatar dressed in black legal robes.
The case - brought by a regional transport union against the police - will now proceed partly in the metaverse, potentially including the verdict, Quiones said. She did not rule out metaverse hearings elsewhere. Early examples of interviews and meetings in the metaverse have been mocked for often-clunky, cartoonish visualizations.
"You need a hardware to do this that very few people have. And that prompts questions about accessibility to justice and equality," he told Reuters.
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