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: Contests
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Here's the latest episode of Seracast, the fun and chatty YouTube show hosted by Del and Kess, co-founders of Seraphim SL (a proud NWN content partner). The ladies highlight Love to Ukraine, a major Second Life fundraiser with funds going to reputed NGOs helping people in that war-wracked country — click her to teleport to…
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There was lots of social media chatter around Maia Lyre’s impressive “Back to School 2021” group photo, because as anyone who uses Second Life knows, getting that many avatars together — 34 in all! — in the same space for a high quality group photo is a logistical and technical nightmare to overcome. Which is…
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"She kissed the Captain" by Cadwyn Daffyd Important update: We've extended the deadline to our #Virtualpride Challenge to June 9th! Here's the details: To celebrate Pride Month, create virtual world images that express your LGBT pride. In the image description, tell us what your activity in the virtual world means to your real life as…
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"She kissed the Captain" by Cadwyn Daffyd To celebrate Pride Month, create virtual world images that express your LGBT pride — then in the image description, tell us what your activity in the virtual world means to your real life as an LGBT person. Tag Cajsa on Flickr and add the hashtag #Virtualpride. Our favorite…
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Pictured: Arnno Planer's #SLBareFaceChallenge In the #SLBareFaceChallenge, as the hashtag suggests, SLers challenge each other to show the community what their avatars look like in a raw screenshot with no post-processing or other add-ons. Overall results, for the most part are surprising to me: They generally look more vivid and "human" than the usual heavily…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Congratulations to Mind Carlberg for winning our #NoAvatarSocialDistance Contest! After Hamlet and I picked out our top three, readers were invited to vote, and it was close. By a nose, Mind edged out the competition with this fabulous photo of a man…
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Had fun in a crowded virtual world lately? Of course you did, you're in quarantine. Don't forget to take some great pics of that, and submit it to this Comment thread for Cajsa and I to judge. (And maybe first give the guidelines a glance.) Here's the most recent submission, an amazing one by Maerin…
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Image credit: Moth Heartsong Here's a quarantine-related challenge that isn't specifically about the Coronavirus, but instead, is about what what we've left behind in recent weeks — and what virtual worlds of all kinds now make possible: The chance to be in crowded spaces with many people. Presenting the "No Social Distance" Crowded Avatars Challenge!…
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