Second Life, the online virtual world developed by Linden Labs, has been a gaming staple for decades. Unlike traditional ...

A decade ago, dozens of media outlets and technologists discovered “The Next Internet.” An original cyberspace science fiction fantasy had finally come to fruition as the world gained a second ...

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About a year ago in my first visit to Second Life, the popular online virtual world, I spent half an hour trying to make my avatar, or online character, look like a hotter version of myself — which ...

Second Life is still consistently updated to this day, with its most recent patch shipping on March 14. (Linden Labs Image) Philip Rosedale has spent a lot of time thinking about the “metaverse,” long ...

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A virtual world on the Internet from Linden Research, Inc., San Francisco, California, in which "residents" create an identity, meet people, buy land and build their own environment or purchase an ...

In the real world, Philip Rosedale is a 38-year-old with California Ken Doll good looks — peppery hair and bright blue eyes, faded jeans and a loose beige sweater. He sits at the Fog City Diner, a ...

Second Life has code built into scripts and sounds and anything that has been made on SL. If you enter a specific code an item will then be copped to your inventory automatically. To this effect you ...