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Barbara Hodgson

Newcastle LooseFest Metaverse offers unique opportunity to explore Town Moor festival site before weekend opening

A unique Metaverse is waiting for festival-goers, enabling them to pay a virtual visit to the LooseFest site in Newcastle and find out all there is to know before the two-day music event launches this weekend.

An extraordinary new app means that people can see the layout of the huge festival site on the Town Moor - in 3D or VR - where more than 80 music acts will play to around 60,000 music fans this weekend, with Black Eyed Peas headlining on Saturday and Mabel on Sunday. And, as well as being entertaining, the opportunity to explore the whole set-up in advance is intended to prove a big help in pre-planning for what will be an incredibly busy event.

The invitation to enter the Metaverse means that before they turn up there in person, festival-goers can walk around the Newcastle site, familiarise themselves with the lay-out and see where the various stages are and find out who's playing and when.

Read more: LooseFest stage timings

They have the option to chose a character and can even pick out a festival outfit and meet friends to have a wander around the site to check out, for instance, what's on offer food-wise and how far the toilets are. And if the potential to keep on exploring seems too tempting to ignore, they can break into a run and speed up their tour.

With LooseFest billed as the largest music festival ever in the North East - and boasting a line-up that Ant and Dec said on Twitter “looks amazing” - there is certainly no shortage of virtual routes or directions to take. The actual site has several stages, a food village and a carnival fairground with a Ferris wheel and big top.

Work there has been ongoing for days. There will be arty installations on the site too, allowing for plenty photo opportunities, and these too can be seen in the Metaverse.

To access the LooseFest Metaverse and find out what the festival site has to offer see here.

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