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A virtual world on the Internet from Linden Research, Inc., San Francisco, California, in which "residents" create an identity, meet people, buy land and build their own environment or purchase an ...

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 ...

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