While the public version of the Second Life virtual world remains primarily a playground for self expression and social networking, military and government agencies are taking a more serious look at ...

IBM and Linden Labs, the operator of the Second Life virtual world, said on Tuesday they will work on ways to eventually let people use the a single online persona in different online services.

Virtual resiliency center will offer everything from exercise classes to tools for coping with the stress of multiple deployments. The Army is bringing a program to improve troops' physical and ...

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 ...

I'm interested in the creative and amazing things gamers get up to in their favorite virtual worlds. The world’s biggest tech giants are betting on the metaverse. Meta (once Facebook) envisions a ...

Linden Lab founder Philip Rosedale and executive chairman Brad Oberwager aren't too impressed with what they've seen so far. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Recap: Second Life provided the "metaverse experience" many years before Facebook turned into Meta and spent billions to try and bring VR to the masses. The virtual world never became a revolution, ...

Sun isn’t shy about taking advantage of new Internet technologies – it was one of the first firms to launch employee blogs – so it wasn’t too surprising to see the server maker become the first ...

If you've followed virtual worlds at all over the last four years, the name Urizenus Sklar will probably mean something to you. Uri, as he was known, was the muckraking journalist who founded the ...

Stealing a page from the Second Life playbook, Red Hat Inc. is inviting users of its JBoss Java-based middleware to an online conference where people will use avatars to attend the event virtually.

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