Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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- Welcome to New World Notes’ 2006-2025 Archive!
- Virtual World Usage Stats from S&P Global Market Intelligence — Plus VRChat & Second Life Specifics!
- Top Five Posts Including: Huge Rec Room Layoff & Meta Boots Neal Stephenson Off Facebook (Briefly)
- Four Glorious Second Life Sims to Explore — After Watching Sabina Valeska’s Machinima Tributes to Them!
- Virtual World Usage Stats from S&P Global Market Intelligence — Plus VRChat & Second Life Specifics!
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Category: Artificial Life
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Sadie Zee gives us “Octopus’ Garden,” a fantastic picture I discovered while looking around for pictures of octopi and after reading an article about how a scientist at Oxford thinks they may replace humans as the apex species on Earth if we…
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Unlike the Convai-powered human NPCs we were recently discussing, AI-powered animals are far more interesting, believable, and frankly, appealingly un-creepy. So if you're interested in the best and latest in AI-driven virtual creatures, here's a chance to get a free Alpha preview of Stay: Forever Home, an upcoming mixed reality game for Quest headsets where you…
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Zooby, popular creator of virtual babies and animals in Second Life, just birthed a new species in the virtual world: Puppies! And puppies particularly puppy-ish purportedly: "Zooby Puppies can sleep in beds, poop/pee on puppy pads, relax on love pillows, chew on bones, snuggle with toys, and eat from food bowls," Zooby owner Carrie Tatsu…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting My cat is determined to sit on my arms so I can’t see the keyboard or the bottom half of the screen.† I am determined to get this column done. So, I decided to focus on the cats of Second Life. I…
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//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting International Dog Day earlier this week inspired me to look for photographs of Second Life’s canines, which eventually led me to the Flickr group, Me & My Dog Second Life. I found this wonderful picture by Alsation Kidd shot at Mother…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting A’s “Aurel” was such a surprise to see because my best friend and I had been discussing megalodons just last week. It’s the sort of conversation one has when one’s best friend is a biologist. The photo is striking on its own…
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Pic by Drakedarkblood from a recent Potted photo contest Somewhere off the coast, there’s a deep sea diver sitting in a decompression tank worrying for long stretches about the fate of his virtual plants. “One of our players is a deep sea diver,” Cort Brandiss explains, “like for oil companies. And he has to sit…
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The future of sexuality in the Metaverse is waiting for me on a steel platform in the sky, but unexpectedly turns out to be shy. Meet Uma Johnson, a slinky blonde avatar in a body-hugging outfit, who may be the first Second Life bot connected to ChatGPT designed for virtual sex, but certainly won’t be…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Yesterday’s post sent me off to Second Life Avians, a Flickr group devoted to our feathered friends. This was the first picture and what a picture. Taken by Susann DeCuir it is vibrant and colorful. Her description links to more information and…
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What you’re looking at above is an excerpt from a moving conversation between tech artist Michelle Huang, and Michelle Huang as a young girl. “I trained an AI chatbot on my childhood journal entries – so that I could engage in real-time dialogue with my ‘inner child’,” as she recently explained on Twitter: I kept…
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