{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/8cf4cec7-5a0f-49c5-8ec9-36941b5c6b6e/201ab20e-8986-4c0d-b60b-45759f5e9534?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"High Fidelity's Philip Rosedale: \"The trouble with building the metaverse\"","description":"<p>The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on High Fidelity’s Philip Rosedale to talk about virtual worlds before the Internet (4:00), founding Second Life (8:00), capturing the zeitgeist (11:00), Second Life today (16:05), the current metaverse hype (20:10), the challenge of living a virtual life (23:10), the folly of the “hybrid” workplace (29:20), the dangers of virtual life (31:30), the importance of business model (35:00), the hardware challenges (39:30), and of augmented reality (44:00), tech’s misunderstanding of human behaviour (47:10), the dystopic idea that yielded the metaverse (51:00), and Burning Man in the time of Covid (59:40).</p><p><br></p><p>For a FREE trial subscription to The Times, go to: thetimes.co.uk/dannyinthevalley</p>","author_name":"The Sunday Times"}