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IBM And Second Life Announce Interoperability, But Bridging Virtual Worlds Is the Wrong Answer

Posted from TechCrunch 58 days ago
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Virtual worlds like Second Life have a silo issue—they are virtual worlds unto themselves. Today, Linden Lab (which operates Second Life) and IBM announced that they have successfully bridged two virtual worlds, with avatars from Second Life successfully “teleporting” to an entirely different metaverse based on an OpenSim server. The two companies have been [...]

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