Watch: Philip Rosedale & Me Chat About the Rise of AI, VisionPro, and Making a Metaverse That Matters

Recorded at Linden Lab last week Friday, I’m honored to be the latest guest in Philip Rosedale’s new YouTube vlogast, where we do a deep dive on the past, present, and future of Second Life and other metaverse platforms. I have not seen Philip in person since the pandemic, so it was great to catch up, get a glimpse of his upcoming projects (more on those soon) and delve through Making a Metaverse That Matters and related topics.

It was a long chat, so here’s some highlights:

0:00 – Prologue
1:50 – Will AI’s replace Actors?
6:00 – Journalism in virtual worlds vs. IRL ?
10:00 – Communicating with both text & voice
11:58 – Would you say that you ‘lived’ in SL?
13:50 – Walking through every SL sim
14:45 – Second Life Mainland versus Islands
16:50 – Would you have done SL teleporting differently?
20:15 – What game does everyone want to play?
25:15 – What did SL get right?
28:14 – Are virtual worlds like Roblox good for kids?
31:50 – Most interesting people and things in SL
35:18 – What would you have done differently?
43:34 – Can SL work on mobile?

More after the break!

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46:29 – The State of Play conference and getting past the Metaverse Age Cliff
50:20 – Can virtual worlds make us better people?
55:58 – The Love Machine
58:45 – VRChat
1:03:20 – Body movement without VR headsets
1:05:00 – Why it’s very hard to change features on metaverse platforms, and the Tao of Linden
1:10:03 – Web3 in virtual worlds?
1:13:40 – Why curious generalists are good at creating virtual worlds
1:16:15 – How Bitcoin vending machines in Second Life helped launched the cryptocurrency
1:17:00 – Vision Pro?
1:22:45 – What it was like for Philip to watch Facebook become Meta
1:25:10 – ChatGPT and BunnyGPT
1:27:00 – Why the Metaverse still generates more interest over ChatGPT
1:31:35 – Advice for entrepreneurs