Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter

Making a Metaverse That Matters
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recent posts
- Why Gen AI Isn’t Quite Cost-Effective at Creating 3D Game Worlds
- Warning: LLMs Able to De-Anonymize User Accounts on Reddit, Hacker News & Other “Pseudonymous” Platforms; Report Co-Author Expands, Advises
- Want to Go On-Together? A New Virtual World for Real Life Coworking
- All the World’s Avatars (1 Billion & Counting)
- Gamers Overwhelmingly Hate Gen AI in Games, Major Industry Report Finds — Here’s Why!
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Category: Economics of SL
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The Eris Bodycon is a new strapless leather dress in the shop of Sinespace (an NWN media partner) which includes a new-ish feature — the ability to adjust the tint of a clothing item in real time to a near infinite degree, using a color wheel user interface. (See above.) Created by Gaby, owner of…
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New World Notes contributor Cajsa Lilliehook just pointed me to this Second Life forum thread of users complaining that the SL Marketplace allows racist slurs to be used as product tags — and that some vendors are taking advantage of that to advertise virtual world content promoting racial stereotypes. I've been able to confirm this…
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SL land grid circa 2018, photo by Daniel Voyager There once was a virtual world that kept growing and growing (and often shrinking along the way), with dozens of new islands and continents suddenly emerging, seemingly from the digital ocean, every month. But then in the real world, a global pandemic caused many to seriously…