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VWBPE 2026 Keynote :: Philip Rosedale

We’ve Been Metaversing Since Before It Was Cool From Virtual Worlds to Learning Worlds: Two Decades of Immersive Education For more than twenty years, shared virtual environments have served as laboratories for rethinking identity, creativity, and collaboration online. Long before the recent surge of interest in “the metaverse,” educators were building campuses, simulations, conferences, and communities inside persistent digital spaces such as Second Life. These early efforts revealed a powerful insight: the transformative potential of immersive technology lies not in graphics or hardware, but in agency, embodiment, and social presence. This talk reflects on the evolution of virtual worlds in education — from early experimentation to today’s convergence of spatial computing, artificial intelligence, and persistent digital identity. It considers emerging questions around platform control, identity ownership, and the role of AI as a creative partner rather than a replacement for human teaching. Looking ahead, immersive learning environments are likely to become hybrid, participatory, and deeply integrated into global networks of collaboration. The long-term vision is not a virtual escape from education, but an expansion of it — where learners build, inhabit, and co-create the spaces in which learning happens. About Philip Rosedale Philip Rosedale is a lifelong innovator and the creator of Second Life ( https://secondlife.com/ ), a pioneering virtual world developed through his company, Linden Lab. After earning a BS in Physics from UCSD, he held leadership roles such as CTO of RealNetworks, where he oversaw the creation of RealVideo, before transitioning to the development of immersive digital environments. His career has spanned from early videoconferencing technology to founding High Fidelity ( https://highfidelity.com/ ), a platform focused on spatial audio and open-source VR. Currently serving as the CTO of Second Life, Rosedale’s recent work also includes FairShare ( https://fairshare.social/ ), a project addressing wealth inequality through digital currency, and CIMC.AI ( https://cimc.ai/ ), which explores machine consciousness. Find Philip on these social media networks: Substack: https://philiprosedale.substack.com/ Medium:   / philiprosedale   X (Twitter): https://x.com/philiprosedale