When i started second life, when i thought that we were all going to use it, and that there were gong to be three billion people in it. We're not there yet. The medaverse is the idea that we're all going to be together in some sort of space, and that it's going to feel normal. And where the rubber hits the road is when you're face to face with other people. It's just not there yet for playing a video game. Sure, it's great for watching net flicks, yet's great. But that's not the metaverse. I'm sure there's amazing work being done on this over the next few years. There
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Philip Rosedale, founder of Second Life, to talk about why he has returned as an advisor and investing the virtual world years after having left (4:30), how many people are on Second Life today (10:05), the $650m Second Life economy (12:05), digital goods millionaires (14:20), the dangers of an ad-driven model (16:40), how you govern a metaverse with 1 billion people (24:40), moderating (28:30), the future of the metaverse (36:00), whether Mark Zuckerberg can pull it off (40:40), and the concept of race in virtual worlds (43:30).
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