What Comparisons Between Second Life and the Metaverse Miss
In Slate, Diami Virgilio warns against drawing too many parallels between the much-hyped metaverse and Second Life:
But to dismiss the metaverse … as the reincarnation of Second Life is to miss something crucial. Second Life’s scope and scale has always been considerably narrower than the current hype for a metaverse. Where Second Life proposed an alternative reality for its users, the metaverse is a road map to enclose both the virtual and actual worlds.