The other night, I had an odd conversation with ChatGPT, made somewhat stranger because the AI’s answers came out of a humanoid rabbit idly sucking on a juice box. He was standing alone in a virtual ...

IBM Corp. is launching an ambitious marketing campaign in the hip virtual world Second Life. Big Blue has developed 12 "virtual islands," and most will be open to anyone with a Second Life account ...

Linden Research is hard at work to enhance the voice capabilities, search features and navigation interface of Second Life.The company is convinced that this popular, 31/2-year-old virtual world isn’t ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Students in Lynnette Leonard's communications class trickle into a basement computer lab. Moments later, they leave the University of Nebraska at Omaha campus and transport to an ...

Linden Lab’s Second Life isn’t the first virtual community to spring up on the Internet — text-based MUDs (multi-user domains) date back to the mid-1970s. Nor is it the largest virtual environment.

Brand mavens who choose to use Second Life or other community-driven online worlds as a marketing test lab need to commit more than a budget to derive any real value from the experience--they need to ...

Linden Lab's Joe Miller says company is convinced its virtual world is a credible vehicle for social interactions, commerce and entertainment Linden Research is hard at work to enhance the voice ...