Technology company Improbable builds Major League Baseball’s first virtual ballpark, which launches during the MLB All-Star Celebrity Softball Game. Major League Baseball’s introduction of its own virtual world, makes it the first professional sports league to own a virtual world to gather its community from around the globe. The MLB virtual ballpark also joins the M² network, enabling the oldest professional American sports league to experiment with formats and new content.

The inaugural event at the “Ballpark” takes place on July 8, 2023 as a watch party during the live exhibition contest featuring celebrities and former star baseball players, marking the first of multiple events for the year. Powered by Improbable’s Morpheus technology and developed within the M² network, the MLB virtual ballpark will allow baseball fans to gather and interact simultaneously in a single place, enabling the natural scale of baseball games and making it the first service to host such large interactive sports experiences.

MLB’s virtual ballpark will benefit from industry leading scale, bandwidth and rendering enabled by Morpheus. Other features include the support for social connection between consumers with natural voice chat, baseball-themed entertainment, one-click entry from any device via cloud streaming, and advanced interoperability with other metaverses within M².