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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...