But modern society can be very isolating, and I think that for some people, Second Life is an escape—like one of my sources said, the equivilant of "the 21st century novel"—and more than just ...

Second Life, the long-lived online metaverse that still attracts nearly a million monthly active users, has announced it will start charging US users local sales tax on many in-game purchases for ...

Even in my short exploration this week, I caught glimpses of the moderation challenges that Second Life faces. Those would be amplified if a metaverse went mainstream. Searching for events or ...

Linden Labs is one company that has experienced economic strain. But if it were to close its doors, it wouldn’t just put people out of jobs, it would put millions of people out of their second home.

But all the criticisms against SL activity were also made about people who pioneered the early Internet– that they were geeks without lives trying to escape ... “My Second Life: The Diary ...

Linden Lab, the company behind the virtual world Second Life, is releasing a virtual-reality ... you can do whatever you want in virtual reality, and my VR tour guide and I are taking this ...

Who among us hasn't, at one low point in time, searched for a lighthearted escape from reality ... took refuge in the online virtual world, Second Life? Then Jim, who was worried about Dwight ...

It took about an hour before I finally switched from thinking that my initial experiences with Second Life were a waste of time -- to actually finding them being productive in new ways.

The metaverse experiences that have been trotted out with great fanfare look a lot like Second Life, the online virtual world created by Linden Lab back in the early 2000s. Second Life is now in ...

When Second ... and real life identities. Catteneo, who declined to provide his real name, said he doesn’t fear the subpoena. "I'm not some kind of noob," Catteneo said. "My name isn’t on ...