As the Virtual Worlds conference kicked off in Silicon Valley yesterday, IBM announced a partnership with Linden Lab, makers of Second Life, to create portable avatars that you can bring with you to ...

Second Life is still consistently updated to this day, with its most recent patch shipping on March 14. (Linden Labs Image) Philip Rosedale has spent a lot of time thinking about the “metaverse,” long ...

For many undergrads, college is as much an experiment in identity as it is a pursuit of knowledge. So it’s no wonder Second Life strikes a chord with students: The virtual world, which lets users ...

A version of this article was published in TIME’s newsletter Into the Metaverse. Subscribe for a weekly guide to the future of the Internet. In 2007, Second Life founder Philip Rosedale made a bold ...