Second life is one of the only companies providing virtual world services for grown up people, not kids. More than 99 % of the user hours that are happening in social avatar worlds is kids between seven and 14 years old. Second life does tend to get le to be friends with people that they might not otherwise have been friends with,. or fall in love, or start a company. And it does that across borders, and it does that very effectively.
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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