Linden Lab says it has spent $1.3B building Second Life since 2003, paid out $1.1B to creators, and the virtual world has an economy of ~$650M per year
Linden Lab has spent $1.3 billion building the Second Life virtual world, which debuted back in 2003 in the first era of the metaverse. Mastodon: @Grizzlysgrowls@twit.social Mastodon: @Grizzlysgrowls@...
Tilia, a payment platform for game publishers, metaverse projects, and more, raised $22M, after spinning off from Second Life creator Linden Lab in October 2022
Kate Park / TechCrunch :
Q&A with Second Life journalist Wagner James Au, on crypto-based metaverses, companies such as Meta struggling to foster healthy metaverse communities, and more
Q&A with Second Life journalist Wagner James Au, on crypto-based metaverses, companies such as Meta struggling to foster healthy metaverse communities, and more
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Second Life founder Philip Rosedale returns to Linden Research, in which his startup High Fidelity made an investment, to take on the metaverse
Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal :
Second Life founder Philip Rosedale says he is returning to its parent company to help it expand into the metaverse
Philip Rosedale is coming back to the digital world he created to help inject growth — The founder of Second Life, one of the earliest digital-reality worlds, is returning for a second stint to take...
Chainalysis: users spent nearly $41B on NFTs in 2021, with <$10K transactions accounting for more than 75% of the market; 32.4K wallets hold 80% of the value
Financial Times : Tweets: @carnage4life , @julianklymochko , @abatukaraali , @mshannahmurphy , and @slhamlet Tweets: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : The unintuitive thing about the NFT market is how ...
Meta opens its VR social platform Horizon Worlds to all adult users in the US and Canada, after announcing a private beta in September 2019
a new metaverse experience you can explore right now Peter Graham / VRFocus : Adults in US & Canada can Now Step Into Horizon Worlds David Cohen / Adweek : Meta Brings Horizon Worlds VR App Out of Bet...
Meta's promised metaverse is going to be boring and is meant to distract us from the world that Facebook helped break
You're not losing your mind: it really does just sound like a worse version of the internet. Chris Vallance / BBC : Facebook's metamorphosis - will it work? Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Fa...
Sansar, a social VR platform from the makers of Second Life, is acquired by SF-based Wookey Project Corp, a social search engine, for an undisclosed sum
Janko Roettgers / Protocol :