Post your own predictions for highlighting here and on New World Notes, the more concrete and easier to validate, the better!*
I'll start with two of my own:
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Thanks to the launch of Linden Lab's mobile app and cloud streaming, Second Life increases peak concurrent users by at least 20%. I predicted something like this would happen last year, but muffed it. But I'm still bullish on this happening in 2025!
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A leading metaverse platform start-up is acquired or goes on an IPO track. This is another prediction I missed in 2024, but I actually think VRChat's painful layoffs last year better position them for this happening (if they want) in 2025.
I'll think of more predictions over the weekend, but want to read yours first!
I usually post an open forum for New Year predictions in late December, by the way, but this time, when I got the sense something big was coming in early January, had to move it to this week.
*I.E., "VisionPro bombs in its second year" is vague, but "VisionPro sells less units in its second year than in its first" is much better. (Not a prediction of mine, though come to think of it, maybe it should be.)
Wagner James Au / New World Notes 
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