Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
recent posts
- 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: Events
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Click here to visit Bad Unicorn World, the new sim from Bhad Craven's Bad Unicorn, purveyor of zany items in Second Life — and, I think, a promising new way of solving SL's first-time "what's the point of this world?" user experience problem. Not just a visually cool sim, but as the trailer suggests, a…
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If you're attending Augmented World Expo in Long Beach this week, definitely let me know! I'll be there to sign books tomorrow afternoon (Wednesday) and possibly Thursday.* If you're reading this, I'd love to meet/chat in person. Connect with me on these various social media platforms and let's coordinate: Bluesky Twitter/X LinkedIn On Discord, I'm…
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April 4 Update: Everwinter is officially opening tomorrow (April 5) at Noon SLT — details here, click here to directly teleport. Read my Everwinter preview, originally posted on my Patreon, below: Click here to teleport to start adventuring in Everwinter, an ambitious new Second Life-based cyberpunk MMO from Nadir Taov, lead creator of the long-running…
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Augmented World Expo 2024 is happening next month in June in sunny Long Beach, and I'm excited to say I'll be attending the world's largest XR/AR/VR conference, signing Making a Metaverse That Matters and roaming the conference as a blogger/consultant/etc. Hope to see you there! Speaking of which, the team at AWE gave me this…
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Stream starts at 4pm PT today! Watch on YouTube, or join us in-world: Teleport link: VWBPE Auditorium – Canopy Waterfall Teleport link: VWBPE Auditorium – Floating Gallery We'll take as many audience questions as possible, just post them in text chat. Also! Thanks to my publisher Wiley, there's a special 35% discount on the print…
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Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education has been pioneering immersive pedagogy for years, so I'm super honored to be giving a keynote talk at their annual conference next week. Held March 14 at 4pm PT, here's the info and teleport links: Despite, or because of, all the hype and backlash around the Metaverse in recent years,…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Leah-Marie snapped this candid photo of a St. Lucia Day celebration in Second Life in 2021. Today is St. Lucia’s Day, a holiday popular with people from Italian and Scandinavian backgrounds, celebrating a saint who helped the persecuted while “wearing a candle…
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Just got word that Philip has been added as a keynote speaker to GamesBeat Next in San Francisco next week Monday and Tuesday (October 23-24) — use this discount code for 40% off at sign-up: GBN23SPEAKER That's on top of me moderating a panel with Second Life co-founder/Google VP Cory Ondrejka; as I discuss in…
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If you're interested in attending GamesBeat Next in San Francisco this month (October 23-24 to be exact), use this discount code for 40% off at sign-up: GBN23SPEAKER As that suggests, yes, I'm moderating a panel with Second Life co-founder/Google VP Cory Ondrejka and MMO game god Raph Koster, who's furiously and secretly at work creating…
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Starting today at 1pm PT/SLT I'll be chatting with the lovely folks of the Virtual Worlds Education Consortium about Making a Metaverse That Matters in the OG metaverse platform of Second Life. If you want to join us in-world, click here to teleport — or watch the live YouTube stream above. Hosted by longtime virtual world…
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