Why SL is been left out of the current metaverse hype?

[Oct Oyen]

Ever since Facebook announced it's all in on metaverses, it has been on a hype along the hype of crypto and NFT. As I'm looking at these blockchain based metaverse, it was like time traveling back to SL in 2007. Everything these metaverses are doing now has been done in SL15 years ago, except for the blockchain part. Yet all these metaverse buzz from tech articles have no mention of SL. Is LL missing a golden opportunity?

[Blaise Glendevon]

Second Life is old news, though. You can't hype a thing that got its hype 15 years ago. 

[Amina Sopwith]

SL is really not mainstream cool or relevant any more and hasn't been for a long time. It's got a die hard community of its own but it's just seen as weird and outdated by most people outside of it, if they even remember it. People won't even think of it for these articles.

[Rowan Amore]

https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/13/22881864/metaverse-second-life-decentralized-moderation-patent-virtual-reality

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59180273

https://time.com/6123333/metaverse-second-life-lessons/

It's been brought up in these and many more current articles about the metaverse.

Edited January 20, 2022 by Rowan Amore

[Gilgamesh Alpha]

2 hours ago, Amina Sopwith said:

SL is really not mainstream cool or relevant any more and hasn't been for a long time. It's got a die hard community of its own but it's just seen as weird and outdated by most people outside of it, if they even remember it. People won't even think of it for these articles.

Also whenever it is mentioned outside of specific circles, most are shocked to know that it's still around.

[Solar Legion]

Probably because there is no metaverse to hype.

[Sid Nagy]

Philip Rosedale is trying to stir things up in SL's favor.
Or at least be part of the game show.
 

 

Edited January 20, 2022 by Sid Nagy

[Bree Giffen]

A lot of the metaverse is long on hype and short on content. SL is the opposite. It's a little scary seeing all these acquisitions. SL is a little jewel to be taken.

[Arduenn Schwartzman]

There will be no Metaverse by Facebook, VR goggles will never become mainstream and NFTs will evaporate.

Edited January 20, 2022 by Arduenn Schwartzman

[Silent Mistwalker]

25 minutes ago, Sid Nagy said:

Philip Rosedale is trying to stir things up in SL's favor.
Or at least be part of the game show.
 

 

 

I don't own a cellphone and you can't sign up for Twitter without one. 🤨

[mikka Luik]

1 hour ago, Silent Mistwalker said:

 

I don't own a cellphone and you can't sign up for Twitter without one. 🤨

yes you can - well if you really want to =^^=

[Silent Mistwalker]

8 minutes ago, mikka Luik said:

yes you can - well if you really want to =^^=

Been there done that. It does not work. Not even on the email I have had for well over 20 years. Nor does trying to sign up with my Google account and I do not and refuse to have Freakbook.

Edited January 20, 2022 by Silent Mistwalker

[Gilgamesh Alpha]

50 minutes ago, Silent Mistwalker said:

Been there done that. It does not work. Not even on the email I have had for well over 20 years. Nor does trying to sign up with my Google account and I do not and refuse to have Freakbook.

When was the last time you tried? 

[Theresa Tennyson]

4 hours ago, Oct Oyen said:

Ever since Facebook announced it's all in on metaverses, it has been on a hype along the hype of crypto and NFT. As I'm looking at these blockchain based metaverse, it was like time traveling back to SL in 2007. Everything these metaverses are doing now has been done in SL15 years ago, except for the blockchain part. Yet all these metaverse buzz from tech articles have no mention of SL. Is LL missing a golden opportunity?

People probably aren't talking about SL now because they were talking about it in 2007 and giving it hype that it couldn't sustain.

[Silent Mistwalker]

11 minutes ago, Gilgamesh Alpha said:

When was the last time you tried? 

Less than a month ago.

[animats]

On Reddit's r/metaverse, Second Life has been mentioned a lot. Mostly because when someone talks about the metaverse doing something someday, someone posts an example of SL doing it right now. Owning land, building, rares, etc.

[Oct Oyen]

I think it has a lot to do with SL's ancient engine, Windwright ...or whatever it's called. SL was designed in 2003, it was state of art back then and LL has done a great job pushing the ancient engine beyond its expiration day, by adapting standard gaming asset format. But the physic part of it remains in 2000s, the experience of driving a car in SL today is the same as it was 2007, unplayable. Also all these talks about web 3.0 is basically describing OpenSims.

 

 

[Oct Oyen]

 

https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/13/22881864/metaverse-second-life-decentralized-moderation-patent-virtual-reality

Edited January 20, 2022 by Oct Oyen

[Scylla Rhiadra]

5 minutes ago, Oct Oyen said:

 

https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/13/22881864/metaverse-second-life-decentralized-moderation-patent-virtual-reality

Well, in fairness, there is a lot of that.

It's a shame that they are overlooking the legions of really dull people. Like me.

[Coffee Pancake]

5 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

Well, in fairness, there is a lot of that.

It's a shame that they are overlooking the legions of really dull people. Like me.

This is the problem though .. if you build a world with no adult content, then it's never going to attract anyone's interest.

Not specifically because of the lack of adult content, but because by censoring that, the platform implicitly censors a whole lot of other stuff (even if they actually, technically, don't).

If a platform has adult content, prudes latch onto that and shout up a storm.

Give the same prudes a whole new world with no adult content (Sansar), do they move over .. nope, because it's boring.

 

Which I guess boils down to, if your virtual world isn't aggressively progressive, it's dead.

[Prokofy Neva]

6 hours ago, Oct Oyen said:

Ever since Facebook announced it's all in on metaverses, it has been on a hype along the hype of crypto and NFT. As I'm looking at these blockchain based metaverse, it was like time traveling back to SL in 2007. Everything these metaverses are doing now has been done in SL15 years ago, except for the blockchain part. Yet all these metaverse buzz from tech articles have no mention of SL. Is LL missing a golden opportunity?

Gene was formerly legal counsel for Linden Lab and is now running for local elections in California.

[Profaitchikenz Haiku]

15 minutes ago, Coffee Pancake said:

If a platform has adult content, prudes latch onto that and shout up a storm.

Give the same prudes a whole new world with no adult content (Sansar), do they move over .. nope, because it's boring.

There is a class of person who lives to loves to wield the puritan scythe

[Silent Mistwalker]

1 hour ago, Oct Oyen said:

I think it has a lot to do with SL's ancient engine, Windwright ...or whatever it's called. SL was designed in 2003, it was state of art back then and LL has done a great job pushing the ancient engine beyond its expiration day, by adapting standard gaming asset format. But the physic part of it remains in 2000s, the experience of driving a car in SL today is the same as it was 2007, unplayable. Also all these talks about web 3.0 is basically describing OpenSims.

 

 

WindLight was not SL's engine. WindLight was the codename for Second Life's atmospheric rendering system which has been "replaced" by EEP.

 

[Silent Mistwalker]

1 hour ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

Well, in fairness, there is a lot of that.

It's a shame that they are overlooking the legions of really dull people. Like me.

 

And me.

[Marigold Devin]

... me too