Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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- 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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Pretty fun article. Unfortunately, my favorite metaverse-meets-the-movies story didn't make the cut: When a rising tech CTO watched The Matrix for the first time in 1999 with his friends, he left the theater somewhat bummed. "That," he told them, "is what I wanted to make." And that man's name? Philip Rosedale. My favorite lines for…
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"What can the Metaverse learn from Second Life?" is a good new story for UK publication Engineering & Technology from freelancer Hilary Lamb, delving into the lessons that new metaverse platforms could learn from Second Life. For instance, technical debt: ‘Second Life’ is notoriously clumsy, with lag and lumpy framerates that put something of a…
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Click here to register for free to attend a Zoom webinar on That M Thing in a conference hosted by Canadian non-profit org CPAC (Chinese Professionals Association of Canada), which kicks off April 29 at 6:30pm PT. I'm preparing a slide deck now covering a range of topics, including how to define the Metaverse, Second…
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Update, 3/11: Zoom link/access details below: Topic: Virtual Media Management Association Meeting on Monday, April 11, 2022 Time: Apr 11, 2022 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 916 6233 8941 One tap mobile: +16465588656,,91662338941# US (New York) I'll try to cover the topics mentioned in Comments below; feel free…
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Lessons From 19 Years in the Metaverse is a gratifying deep dive interview with me in the Atlantic, for Charlie Warzel’s Galaxy Brain free newsletter. Charlie and I plumb into the virtual world/metaverse topics I’ve felt strongly about in recent years, and it’s wonderful to get a chance to have the space to explore them…
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« Second Life », le métavers créé et géré par ses utilisateurs is a new article on French culture site featuring me talking with reporter Mathilde Loire about Second Life and the metaverse. And my quotes definitely seem sexier en français:
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NFT? Maybe that should mean Not Friendly Transactions. Allie Volpe of Bustle recently asked me who will be rich in the Metaverse: Virtual plots of land or massive yachts won’t be signs of wealth in the metaverse if other users aren’t on the platform to witness it, especially if outsiders don’t see value in these…
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For everything you hear about Facebook's metaverse, @slhamlet has heard it before with Second Life.@parmy will be chatting with him about the future of the metaverse and whether it'll replace the real world at 12pm ET https://t.co/uhRqpdd7sF — Bloomberg Opinion (@bopinion) February 23, 2022 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Update, 10:55AM: Click through to hear our recorded chat above,…
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"Remember Second Life? That Could Be Facebook’s Future" is the title for my recent chat with Bloomberg's Parmy Olson (author of the seminal book, We Are Anonymous). Here's some of my favorite excerpts, along with some reference links where available: WJA: For any story I’ve seen about the metaverse now, there’s an analogue to what…
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Click here to listen and read the article summary, my chat with Nora of "Sparks", a tech show on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (basically the NPR/PBS of Canada) about Second Life and the Metaverse. Some of my answers seem a bit stumbly to me (I blame my morning coffee for not kicking in soon enough),…
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