Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Events
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Click here to teleport into the Maui Wildfire Relief drive in Second Life. Running until end of this Saturday, over 75 SL brands are selling excellent items (full list of participants here) with 100% of net sales going as cash donations to Maui Food Bank. Several live music events are also planned today and tomorrow,…
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Click here to teleport to a Second Life fundraiser to help the people of Maui now in desperate need due to the wildfire tragedy. Dozens of top SL brands listed here are donating content to the project, Maui Wildfire Relief SL, with all Linden Dollar proceeds converted to USD and going to the Maui Food…
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Click here to a reserve a spot to join a book launch party in the metaverse platform Breakroom next week Wednesday! Will be a fun and casual Summer bonfire-themed event, hopefully similar to the event I co-hosted for Philip Rosedale back in 2021 (watch below). Details: Released on the 20th anniversary of Second Life, the…
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Next week I'm speaking about Making a Metaverse That Matters (and related topics) for the first time, at the GamesBeat conferences' virtual event — go here to register for a free pass. And if you can be in the Los Angeles area next week, you can attend GamesBeat's in-person conference on March 22-23 at the…
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UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who joined us, especially Erik and Rosie in fluff form! We talked about a Second Life avatar in the Vienna Opera House, Bryn Oh on Steam, and too many VR headsets in Metaverse stories. Plus viewer questions and topics that quickly get racy!
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Registration is now open for Metaverse Safety Week, an online conference from XR Safety Initiative (XRSI), the brainchild of Linden Lab veteran Kavya Pearlman. "It is essential to getting things right at every level. especially when it comes to safety, privacy and cybersecurity," as she tells me. "Currently besides the XRSI privacy and safety framework…
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In heaven, everything is fine. You got yours and I got mine… Click here to visit. That's right: The David Lynch fan group in Second Life that I wrote about last month has gone ahead and opened up a whole dedicated sim devoted to Lynch's imagination and tributes to scenes and characters from his most…
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Tomorrow at 11am PT, watch live above or click here to witness in Second Life a pretty intriguing event: Tia Rungray, a Second Life avatar and a "Noise Classical" project by musician Takayuki Noami, is going to improvise live in the Metaverse, in front of two massive cubes in the desert. "[Sculpture] Blue Tsuki's new installation…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting There is a new event in town: Acclaimed metaverse photographer Whiskey Monday has created a new shop-and-hop event focused on art. It’s called Curated and goes for ten days a month. It’s covered here at Seraphim, the event guide blog with all…
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//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Click here to teleport to a place where the birds sing a pretty song, and there's always music in the air. That's right: There's a whole Second Life sim devoted to dream world genius David Lynch, and there's a grand 7 hour event happening there tomorrow starting at 2pm PT. (All the details here.)…
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