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On the screen of my overheated computer, I was staring at an endless horizon of sky and water and islands and small buildings, designed to look realistic but giving themselves away with too-sharp ...
A screenshot from the virtual reality world "Second Life." Correspondent A version of this article was published in TIME’s newsletter Into the Metaverse. Subscribe for a weekly guide to the future of ...
Second Life is a virtual environment in which avatars — visual representations of users or “residents” — can interact. If you’re familiar with The Sims, it’s superficially similar, since it’s less a ...