How to Build a Metaverse, Part 1: Genesis

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🗓️ 23 September 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Nearly two decades before companies like Meta began pouring billions of dollars into the metaverse, a little company called Linden Lab already had one. In part 1 of our series, we meet the programmers who built Second Life -- a 3-D virtual world where users could be and do whatever they could imagine. And we meet the intrepid users who were the pioneers of this brave new world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Kate, one of the hosts of the journal.
0:03.4	Today in your feed, we're kicking off a new series.
0:06.5	It's about the Metaverse.
0:09.1	Over the past year, more and more companies
0:11.6	have started talking about building 3D virtual worlds.
0:15.4	So one of our producers, Annie,
0:17.2	started digging into the Metaverse idea.
0:20.0	And she got a little obsessed with one Metaverse in particular.
0:24.7	One that's already up and running,
0:27.4	where people have already started businesses,
0:30.3	build homes, socialized, and fall in love, all as avatars.
0:37.4	Over the next four Fridays, she'll
0:39.5	be bringing us the story of that Metaverse
0:42.5	and what it could teach us about a future that seems to be coming.
0:47.6	Here's Annie.
0:48.4	In the beginning, Philip created the water.
0:59.7	The water, the water, isn't that weird?
1:02.6	We built the water.
1:08.2	We built a surface of water, a graphic simulation
1:12.3	that was as blue water and sun, there was like a sun in a moon,
1:15.8	and it had what's called specular reflection,
1:17.9	which is what we call it, and graphics back then.
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