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: Grotesque Self-Aggrandizement
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Excited to tease my book cover for "Making a Metaverse That Matters" from Wiley, out next month! Here's how to pre-order: On Amazon here Or on Barnes & Noble here Or on Bookshop.org benefiting indie bookstores here This isn't the full book cover by the way, because it also has some very flattering blurbs from various…
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Excited to start promoting my book, coming out this June on Second Life’s 20th anniversary! Please pre-order my book on Amazon here Or on Barnes & Noble here Or on Bookshop.org benefiting indie bookstores here I’ll try to keep the plugging down to a dull roar for the sanity of regular New World Notes readers.…
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https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Yahoo Finance has a new story, “Metaverse: ‘Assuming you need a VR headset is just repeating Meta’s assumptions,’ author says” that I’m somewhat biased about liking, because well, I’m the author. It’s taken from a panel from a few hours ago (watch a clip above), where we get into the definition of the Metaverse,…
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Above: From my January compilation of 800+ metaverse job openings Mitch Wagner has a good article on Fierce Electronics that helps separate metaverse hype from metaverse reality, and naturally I have much to say on that topic: So the metaverse is dead, right? Wrong. The hype bubble has collapsed. But the metaverse is growing. “Metaverse…
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Excited to reveal the cover of my upcoming book cover and its new title: Making a Metaverse That Matters: From Snow Crash & Second Life to A Virtual World Worth Fighting For. Set to publish next June — Second Life's 20th anniversary — I hope you consider pre-ordering now. (Lovely stocking stuffer for the holidays?)…
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I recently chatted with Samantha Cole of Vice for her article "The Corporate Metaverse Can’t Compete" and am kicking myself for forgetting to mention the wackiest example of emergent social behavior in a corporate-sponsored metaverse experience — that time IBM's official campus in Second Life was flooded with labor protesters from IBM's Italian branch, including…
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Above: SL Cosplay Taylor Tribute by Kylie Quinn “Weirdly, Taylor Swift Is Extremely Close to Creating a True Metaverse” is a totally random interview with Caroline Mimbs Nyce of The Atlantic I just did, and it starts with a left field premise that winds up with some fairly interesting ways of thinking about the topic.…
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What Is the Metaverse? And Why Should the Art World Care? is a new-ish episode from The Art Angle, the podcast from acclaimed art world news site ArtNet. I had a great time (despite an allergy flare-up) talking with host Tim Schneider, who interviews me alongside art curator Tina Rivers Ryan and artist Sara Ludy,…
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Wagner James Au · The Metaverse & Music — Wagner James Au w/Water & Music Starting around 7 minutes in, here's audio from my Twitter Spaces chat last week on the Metaverse and music with Water & Music, a music business research DAO collective, spinning off on this huge research paper they just published on…
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I've been wanting to make this announcement for months, and now I finally can, through this scoop from Dean Takahashi on VentureBeat: For a guy who was an embedded journalist inside the virtual world of Second Life, this whole metaverse thing is a ride around the merry-go-round again. And so Wagner James Au, who previously wrote a book…
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