Here's the results of our survey from last week, asking readers how the news of Philip Rosedale's return to Second Life has changed their outlook on the future of Second Life and other metaverse-type platforms. Respondents are Optimistic by an overwhelming 60%, with the remaining 40% in the skeptical/nervous/unsure/neutral category. Here's some reader comments:
I sincerely hope that Philip can convince the Lab to do more to improve performance which has noticeably degraded the last few months. I get the feeling that they are trying to see how much money they can save on their use of Amazon server network and hardware resources and have gone too far.
-- Susan Wilson
I welcome Rosedale back as a long-lost beloved uncle. His comments will be of interest, but I'm not the visionary that looks forward to SL improvements. In fact, I tend to grumble about "upgrades." But I sure as heck prefer his visions to Zuckerberg's.
I'm hopeful that he will keep the Lab away from any sketchy crypto nft dreams they might be having.. as for the future of SL .. well, his job hasn't ever been to make it better, it's been to make it look better .. the question is to whom.
*Adds 'Linden Lab sells out to bigger metaverse player in 2022' to her bingo card*
I will curtail optimism. I am curious as to how the [Linden Lab owner] Oberwager Group will implement the Hi Fidelity patents with their own Linden Research patents from Sansar development. This becomes everyone's "Let's not f*ck this up a second time" moment. They will either come out like the world's darling, or they will personally put another nail in SL's coffin.
More here. As for optimism related to metaverse platforms in general, here's a long Wired interview with Philip to read over the weekend.
*Cringes* I didn't realize I messed up on the naming. I obviously meant "Waterfield Group", and not Oberwager Linden. XD
Posted by: Joey1058 | Saturday, January 29, 2022 at 03:41 PM