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Top 10 most read and recommended posts of 2023, including ChatGPT on Metaverse, Second Life on mobile, and Borges on VRChat

BunnyGPT Second Life Metaverse

  • Leading virtual world expert Richard Bartle seeks to explain the core issues of NFTs and blockchain at a crypto conference. It doesn’t work out.
  • BREAKING NEWS: First test viewer for Crystal Frost, a Unity-based Second Life viewer
  • An AI expert explains how ChatGPT actually works and why it was built for it. "The most ordinary web content you can imagine."
  • Breaking News: Unity’s Official Second Life IOS/Android Mobile App Released "with joy and trembling"
  • ChatGPT is coming to Second Life! Inside a giant, a humanoid rabbit. (Featured here in The Atlantic)
  • Dear Zuck: The metaverse doesn’t need surreal IRL avatars.
  • Second Life’s human avatars have become incredibly realistic over the years, despite the user base not growing at all.
  • The nightmarishly infinite library of Babel has haunted people for decades. Borges’ impossible vision now exists in VRChat. (Boing Boing special feature here)
  • WATCH: Second Life is featured in Secret Meetings on Apple TV’s morning show!
  • Linden Institute says "Spicy Adult-Friendly Bedroom Secrets" Coming to Second Life in 2024. It’s a sign of changing times!