Alongside The Book and guest my essays for The Atlantic ("There Will Never Be Another Second Life"), Fast Company ("Neal Stephenson isn’t giving up on the metaverse—or crypto") and VentureBeat ("What went wrong with ‘the Metaverse’? An insider’s postmortem"), here's my favorite 2023 posts for New World Notes:
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APRIL: ChatGPT Comes To Second Life! Inside A Giant, Humanoid Bunny.
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JULY: Philip Rosedale & Me Chat About The Rise Of AI, VisionPro, And Making A Metaverse That Matters (Watch above)
Seven more below the cut!
- OCTOBER: Dear Zuck: The Metaverse Doesn’t Need Your Ultra-Realistic IRL Avatars
- OCTOBER: Get Potted: Virtual Plant-Growing Game In Second Life So Popular, 2000 Regularly Play
- OCTOBER: VRChat Deaf Community Creates New Dialect Of Sign Language To Accommodate Limited VR Hand Tracking
- NOVEMBER: The Nightmarishly Infinite Library Of Babel Has Haunted People For Decades. Now Borges' Impossible Vision Exists In VRChat.
- NOVEMBER: New Gamer Survey Data Helps Answer An Ongoing Mystery: Why Are There So Few Massively Popular Science Fiction-Themed MMOs?
- NOVEMBER: Will Artificial Intelligence Totally Transform Culture & Intellectual Work? An Engineer & Author Debate. Part 1, Music & Movies; Part 2: How Artificial Intelligence May Change Metaverse Platforms — And Challenge Creators Who Make Their Living From Them
- DECEMBER: Linden Lab Says "Spicy Adult-Friendly Bedroom Secrets" Coming To Second Life In 2024. It's A Sign Of Changing Times!
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