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High Fidelity Invests in Second Life metaverse. Founder Philip Rosedale returns to the metaverse he launched in 2002 as an investor and advisor. Second Life is a 3D virtual world users navigate using ...

A version of this article was published in TIME’s newsletter Into the Metaverse. Subscribe for a weekly guide to the future of the Internet. In 2007, Second Life founder Philip Rosedale made a bold ...