Category: Comment of the Week

The Incredible Power of Virtual World Ownership & Creation — And the Real World Absence That Drives It (Comment of the Week)

May 7, 2020

Photo by Grazia Horwitz Reader Luther Weymann, who describes himself as a tech industry veteran who last ran a company with 1000 employees, recently wrote a comment on New World Notes that is among the best things I've ever read about the power of virtual worlds and the people who use them, in order to…
Travis Scott’s Giant Fortnite Show Is a Wake-Up Call for Linden Lab (Comment of the Week)

May 4, 2020

While Travis Scott's literally giantic performance in Fortnite inspired some to think about the metaverse's future, it inspired reader "Seph" to also think about the metaverse's past: It's incredible how technically impossible 95% of that is in Second Life. Does Linden Lab hope for things like this? This is where so much of Second Life…
Fortnite is Succeeding at Becoming a True Metaverse Where Actual Metaverse Companies Have Mostly Failed

April 30, 2020

Reader Tan Mojo saw the literally massive Travis Scott performance in Fortnite, and says something succinctly that's been hovering in the air: This was life changing. For a person like me who wants to become a content creator, this was a huge realization that the metaverse does not lie within known pastures. SL, Sansar, OpenSim,…

The Incredible Power of Virtual World Ownership & Creation — And the Real World Absence That Drives It (Comment of the Week)