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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

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

  • 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!