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@...
Second Life creator Linden Lab launches open beta for social VR platform Sansar, currently supported on HTC Vive VR headset, the Oculus Rift, and Windows PCs
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Second Life Founder Launches Coffee & Power, A Jeff Bezos-Backed Marketplace For Skill-Based Jobs
Philip Rosedale, the founder of Second Life and Linden Lab, is debuting his new venture today— Coffee & Power, a marketplace for skill-based jobs. The San Francisco-based startup …
Linden Lab launches enterprise version of Second Life virtual world
Second Life is going corporate. The virtual world already has more than 1,400 companies staging meetings and conferences inside its virtual landscapes. But Linden Lab is now taking Second Life into ...
The death of Lively and some lessons about complexity
Google's Lively presents us with an interesting scenario. It was literally a checklist of what critics have been saying that virtual environments such as Linden Lab's Second Life absolutely must have...
Real Estate Crashes In Second Life, Too: Linden Lab's Bailout Plan
Linden Lab's new-ish CEO Mark Kingdon has been fond of telling reporters “there's no credit crunch in Second Life.” We'll see about that. Last night Linden announced it was jacking the prices on its...
Free the Avatars
Virtual worlds may be freewheeling environments where cyber-behavior is unconstrained by many terrestrial mores. But they are also gated communities, and the gates keep the digital denizens locked in...
Bestiality May Be Knackered In Second Life
Linden Lab, the creators of Second Life, may be extending their crackdown on "Broadly Offensive" behavior to Bestiality, following attempts to remove virtual pedophilia (or Age-Play) from Second Life ...
SL business sues for copyright infringement
SECOND LIFE, July 3 (Reuters) - Second Life entrepreneur Kevin Alderman filed a copyright infringement lawsuit on Tuesday against Second Life resident Volkov Catteneo, and Alderman's lawyer said he pl...