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 ...

Social games like FarmVille may have some players paying nickels and dimes for virtual goods, but they could take a page from Second Life entrepreneur Jonty Glaser. Glaser's luxury brand of virtual ...

Second Life appears to be the biggest online community to hit the Internet in recent times. It's a 3D digital world, imagined, created, and owned by its residents, which number more than 7 million ...

A screenshot from the virtual reality world "Second Life." Correspondent A version of this article was published in TIME’s newsletter Into the Metaverse. Subscribe for a weekly guide to the future of ...

FOR MANY, THE “metaverse” — an all-enveloping, all-online world — is a fairly new concept. For the regulars on Second Life, it’s just part of everyday reality. Second Life is an immersive online ...

is playing on the large-screen television, and boxes of video games that link to Circuit City's main Web site are neatly stacked on shelves, but no one is around to watch or buy. "What the useful ...