In a riveting discussion at The Future of Gaming conference this month, the metaverse—a term that has stirred up the world of gaming and tech—found itself at the center of a heated debate. On one side of the spectrum, Shay
Long before Apple created the Vison Pro, long before Meta’s Horizon Worlds was a glint in Mark Zuckerberg’s MetaQuest headset, and long before the world had ever heard of a Sandbox or Decentraland, there was Second Life; the original social
The founder of Second Life, one of the earliest digital-reality worlds, is returning for a second stint to take on big tech. In 2003, Philip Rosedale established an online game where users may hang around. Communicate with other players, and
Brands were missing from Mark Zuckerberg’s recently promulgated alternative universe. Facebook’s metaverse simulations appeared to be largely ad-free. This omission looked at odds with the remainder of the presentation, which was in part a massive infomercial for Facebook’s makeover as
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