Introducing - How to Build a Metaverse

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🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

We’re in a metaverse déjà vu moment. Companies are spending billions of dollars creating new metaverses, imagining a 3D virtual future. But there’s a metaverse that’s already been around for decades. In this world, people have started businesses, built homes and fallen in love as avatars. In a new four-part series from The Journal, producer Annie Minoff heads back into that largely forgotten metaverse – Second Life – to tell the story of the metaverse we already have and what it can reveal about the one that’s coming. Start listening to How to Build a Metaverse on Friday, September 23. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	In the beginning, Philip created the water.
0:03.4	The water, the water is now weird.
0:06.1	We built the water.
0:07.6	We built a surface of water.
0:12.3	You can see the sparkle of the sunlight off the water.
0:14.8	Was there sound?
0:16.3	We did make the wind.
0:18.5	We also did clouds that were really beautiful.
0:22.6	Oh, oh, and we had trees.
0:24.5	We had these wonderful trees where all the trees look different
0:27.8	and they had little branching structures and you could move them around too.
0:31.4	This is very genesis.
0:33.0	I should point out.
0:34.0	Yes.
0:36.2	And the evening and the morning was the first day, right?
0:39.4	That's Philip Rosedale.
0:41.0	And his Eden isn't in the physical world.
0:44.2	It's called Second Life, and it's all online.
0:48.2	Two decades before big tech companies like Facebook went all in on the Metaverse,
0:52.7	Philip had already built one.
0:55.2	A world where you could do anything and be anyone.
0:59.1	Where you could live another life.
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