Founder of Linden Lab’s virtual online world Second Life Philip Rosedale will be re-joining the project as a strategic advisor to guide its entry to the Metaverse.
While he is on a negative stance on content interoperability in the Metaverse describing it as “a total fail” he believes an NFT based future is the way forward long term.
Second Life is an online social game universe that launched in 2003. Since leaving his position as CEO of Linden Labs in 2008, Rosedale has made a name for himself in the virtual reality space by creating the social VR company, High Fidelity in 2013.
High Fidelity said it is investing in Linden Labs with both cash and what is described as “distributed computing patents,” including two regarding community moderation in decentralized environments.
“Virtual worlds don’t need to be dystopias,” Rosedale said.
“Big Tech giving away VR headsets and building a metaverse on their ad-driven, behavior-modification platforms isn’t going to create a magical, single digital utopia for everyone.”
Rosedale said that beyond exploring the possibility of adding VR tech to Second Life, advanced avatar animations using facial tracking cameras could also be a future possibility.
As for the possibility of incorporating new ideas like interoperable non-fungible items into Second Life, Rosedale will need some convincing.
