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!
about
Category: Grotesque Self-Aggrandizement
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I just added a new bonus for Patreon subscribers at the $2/month Prim level: A text-based ad (up to 10 words) and link for your virtual world brand on New World Notes' homepage! This is a highly affordable way to get your product / service mentioned on the Internet's most read Second Life/virtual world news…
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Starting at 1pm PT today, join me for a live recording of The Fourth Wall, a YouTube podcast, mostly devoted to Second Life's pro wrestling community (!). I'll be taking on Zuckerberg, crypto bros, and all the other heels out there in a steel cage death match to determine who really makes the Metaverse…
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Here's a fun interview I did recently with Legal4Tech, a podcast/news site exploring the regulatory issues around technology, especially from an European Union perspective. My favorite highlight is getting into the question, "Is the Metaverse meant to replace reality?" Because my answer is, roughly, No, it's meant to replace the toxic crap on TikTok, X,…
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Hari Sutherland recently subscribed to my Patreon on the $100/month "Metaverse partner" level to help launch his new coffee table book, SECOND LIFE: The First, Best Metaverse in Words and Pictures, so I was chuffed to get this ringing endorsement from him: I joined Wagner James Au’s Patreon at the “Metaverse partner” level in October…
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Please join my Patreon for free to help sustain New World Notes! You can now also send someone a membership to my Patreon as a gift here. If you enjoy reading New World Worlds, I hope you consider sharing and supporting it over the holidays — plus get quality early/exclusive content via the Patreon app,…
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Here's my LinkedIn if you're on that platform and want to connect there, especially if you work in the game/virtual world industry, VR, and related fields. While I post New World Notes updates there fairly often, you'll also see posts related to my marketing clients in AI, product design, MMOs, VR, and assorted other verticals. …
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I'm talking with veteran technologist David Orban for his podcast this Friday, hope you join us live! Click "notify me" on his YouTube channel (above), or go here to join via: his LinkedIn page or on this Facebook event page. Some topics covered: The true state of the Metaverse, beyond the hype and misconceptions Insights…
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Why the Metaverse is Beating Gen AI https://t.co/0CegcGDiSk — Open Metaverse Interoperability Group (@open_metaverse) September 6, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Thanks to everyone from the Open Metaverse Interoperability Group especially host @jimmy6DOF for the fun and spicy conversation last Friday — you can listen to the whole thing above (starting around 4 minutes in), with some particular…
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Join Wagner James Au @slhamlet with us on Friday! Open House & Talking all things Metaverse — what it was — what it is — what it could be — and why he thinks it's beating GenAI !!! Here on X starting :11AM(PST) 2PM(EST) 6PM(UTC) pic.twitter.com/3OQTiPIAzO — Open Metaverse Interoperability Group (@open_metaverse) September 4, 2024…
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Here's a fun recent chat with Dominique Wu of the XR Reality Pro podcast, on Making a Metaverse That Matters. Dominique herself is a recent author (Spatial Design) and was recently a developer on Horizons Worlds, so we're able to delve deep into the weeds on what works and what doesn't with Metaverse platforms. Actually…
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