Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Events
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Click here to RSVP for a Metaverse-based fireside chat happening October 21st at Noon PT with analyst and VC Matthew Ball, who has perhaps done more than anyone else to convey the value of virtual worlds and metaverse-related technologies to mainstream business audiences in recent years. Hosted in Breakroom, Sine Wave's metaverse platform for real…
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Barb photo by Catalina Staheli, edited by Kreao Kujisawa Click here to join the 12th year anniversary of Fifty Linden Fridays, one of Second Life’s largest in-world groups. Expect a massive crowd, however, because with 52,530 active members, roughly 1 in 10 of SL’s entire user base is a member of FLF. Founded and still…
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Click here at 1pm SLT tomorrow (Saturday July 24) for a special event in the G.B.T.H. gallery featuring acclaimed SL-based artist Whiskey Monday. Whiskey herself will be there to help unveil a new series of her works with a cool mixed reality twist — alongside a classic series with a cross-platform hook. For the "In…
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RSVP here for the next Breakroom Talks virtual world session from Sine Wave Entertainment (a sponsoring partner to this blog), which will take place on the lonely landscape of Mars, and feature Dr. Jeevan Perera, a seasoned aerospace engineer who's led risk management for the International Space Station, Orion Spacecraft, and other space missions. His…
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Auwfie is a twentysomething singer who performs his own music in Second Life three times a week and, for my money, is destined to become SL's next break-out crossover pop star. With a distinctive, richly textured voice backed by a soundscape of vibey hooks (listen above and below), his style sits somewhere between, say, Radiohead…
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Click here tomorrow at 12:30pm PT for SeraPride, a fundraising event with all Linden Dollar proceeds converted into US$ to benefit Rainbow Railroad, a non-profit which helps LGBTQI people escape persecution in real life. Help on the SL sim of Seraphim, Second Life's most popular fashion blog, top brands like Blueberry are donating items/matching funds,…
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Click here to teleport to NEO-Japan, a twice-yearly shopping and explorational event featuring some of the best Japanese SL content creators inspired by sci-fi anime and cyberpunk classics ranging from Blade Runner to the Second Life-based city Insilico. Here's the official homepage of the event, which is a bit difficult to navigate but has copious…
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Two related events to set your schedule for tomorrow via High Fidelity's e-mail list: [Discussing 3D audio with] High Fidelity's CEO Philip Rosedale, Brianna Wu, Jane McGonigal, Dean Takahashi, Nicole Lazzaro, James Powell, and others in the gaming industry.. We'll be live in Clubhouse from 12-1p Pacific, and then head over to High Fidelity's Spatial Audio demo space…
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Update 3/11: Time has been changed to 3pm PT based on this announcement. This coming Thursday at 4pm PT, Sinespace is hosting an in-world fireside chat with co-founder Adam Frisby and Adam Goodrich, founder of Procedural Worlds, creator of the powerful Unity terrain tool Gaia, which can be used in Sinespace to build massive, highly…
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Starting tomorrow (February 27) at 9am PT, the community of Sinespace (a media partner to this blog) are unveiling Discovery Island with a grand opening festival. Hosted by Mimi Marie, it’s a weekend of fun events (schedule below) featuring many of the best creators and designers working on the platform, and prize giveaways worth up…
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