Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Artificial Life
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Update, 2/14: In Comments, Ventrella credits his collaborators on this project: "The NFT pool itself was mostly the brainchild of Canton Becker (@canton), and he oversaw the project. Luka Negoita (@lukanegoita) invented the "selfish gene" algorithm that calculates the influence of NFT genes on the evolving population. I want to give a shout out to…
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Pictured: Art by "Alejandro" on Open Sea Update, 9/2: Clarification via August Rosedale: The $250K worth in sales mentioned in this post were not directly, as originally reported, from art by AIs Alejandro/Taylor — they were "created" by Rosedale's new AI artist crypo-native, "a truly digital artist creating dynamically evolving art pieces in numerous styles."…
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Topia is another web-based virtual world-meets-Zoom platform to put on your radar, very much in a similar space as Andy Baio's Skittish. The startup just got $5 million in funding from the VC firm of Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, and just unveiled a marketplace for world creators: World owners can now earn commissions whenever visitors…
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Since launching last week, Happy Hill Dog Park in VRChat has been swarming with avatars of all kinds, playing fetch and applying copious force-feedback enabled head pats with the AI-powered pooches. Dr. Kim, the director on the project, told me Monday that it's already attracted over 43,000 visits, and been favorited 7000 times. And while…
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The dogs in Happy Hill Dog Park are waiting for you to come play! Available now on #VRChat for both PC and Quest. Environment and animation design by @jendaviswilson , AI & logic by @CyanLaser . pic.twitter.com/mpJ87FXXx7 — Studio CyFi (@StudioCyfi) May 19, 2021 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Click here to visit Happy Hill Dog Park in VRChat,…
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Verbose, sassy, and surprisingly spry, Mr. Bones is an animesh skeleton on the Marketplace here from The Really Useful Scripts Corner (a proud sponsoring partner to this blog) powered by the Corner’s unique chatbot system. (Click here to chat with Mr. Bones in SL — touch the pumpkin to rezz him.) As you can see…
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Just in time for Easter, you can buy a pet rabbit in Sinespace (a media partner to New World Notes), and unlike most virtual world pets, Buddy Rabbit is special, built on a complicated AI architecture. As seen above, Buddy can inquisitively explore an area, flee from trouble — even doing flying spin-leaps to get…
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