Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Blockchain
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UPDATE, May 7: Linden Lab relatively recently updated its TOS to address the issues discussed below — read this follow-up post. With hype over NFT digital art still hyping, Second Life users are asking the next inevitable question: Is it possible for an SL photographer to sell their digital photos as NFTs? Lately, selling NFTs…
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Above: The Mirage Gallery's display room in SpatialWeb Here’s a question about NFT art that I’ve been thinking about lately, even before the value of the market took a huge hit: What will owners of NFT art actually will do with it, to justify the prices they just paid? With real life art, after all,…
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All the recent hype over NFT-based virtual art* speculation reminded me that Second Life, as usual, anticipated that trend well over a decade ago — for instance, this dress by acclaimed designer Eshi Otawara which was sold in 2008 at auction for L$460,000, roughly $1700 in USD, with all proceeds going to benefit the annual…
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This beautiful portrait of Tupac was created by Afrofuturist Nettrice Gaskins using Deep Dream’s neural network — and now, a rare copy of it can be purchased as an NFT on the blockchain. Given the recent hype over NFT for artists, you’re probably not surprised by that, but Dr. Gaskins’ NFTs are more noteworthy for…
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Cool real world use case on for Sinespace's Breakroom (a media partner to this blog) featured on VentureBeat — a virtual world-based tech conference: BlockDown is a direct response to the worldwide quarantine, which effectively canceled an April conference EAK Digital had been planning to host in Istanbul. CEO Erhan Korhaliller said in an interview…
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Well, maybe next door to Linden Lab on 940 Battery Street in SF, for the low low price of 31,500 UPX. This is Upland, a new virtual real estate acquisition game — sorta Monopoly meets the real world, where virtual land is registered on the EOS blockchain — and as it happens, is the first…
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Pic from HiveMind Collective, a Cryptovoxels creative community Cryptovoxels is a WebGL-based virtual world running on the Ethereum blockchain — and to be totally honest, not something I'd find immediately interesting, ever since the blockchain-based Decentraland, after much excitement from from people like, well, me, more or less went sideways. Juergen Hoebarth, however, who I've…
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