Philip Rosedale, the mastermind behind Second Life, the popular virtual world building game from a decade ago, doesn’t buy the metaverse hype being peddled around, per Axios reporting.

Rosedale highlighted the lessons he learned about the metaverse from his Second Life experience:

• “People can come together in an online place and actually treat each other well.”
   
• “I was saying that almost immediately we were all going to be spending television length durations of time or something like that in the virtual world, doing things with people. And that part was definitely not true.” 
   
• Rosedale also said that many people aren’t comfortable controlling avatar versions of themselves and communicating that way with others.

Rosedale ran Second Life company Linden Lab from 1999-2013, and the game had around a million monthly users at its peak.

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