I don’t understand the whole Second Life phenomenon. Back when “CSI: NY” did their “What is this, Second Life, you speak of?” episode, I signed up for it and couldn’t make it past the “this is how you ...

The other night, I had an odd conversation with ChatGPT, made somewhat stranger because the AI’s answers came out of a humanoid rabbit idly sucking on a juice box. He was standing alone in a virtual ...

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 ...