Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Linden Lab News & Analysis
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Good comment from Dee, one of many Second Life users welcoming back Philip Rosedale to advising the virtual world he founded: I am MUCH more optimistic than I have been for a while where SL is concerned. I hope that Philips' return will bring renewed enthusiasm and fresh ideas that are outside the Linden Lab…
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Today at 9am SLT: Live Chat With Philip Rosedale About Second Life Stories & Designing the Metaverse
Join me in my Space! https://t.co/gF7lSTxyzt — Philip Rosedale (@philiprosedale) January 25, 2022 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Update, 1/26: Listen to chat above (hopefully). Click here to teleport into Second Life for a live chat with Philip Rosedale starting today at 9am SLT — along with Twitter Spaces, Clubhouse, and so other platforms. I’m hoping to join but…
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Update, 8:05pm PT: For context on this move and what Philip might advise on the future of Second Life, here's a recent interview with him suggesting Meta shouldn't be the one making the Metaverse and that it's not for everyone anyway, my post on how he started integrating High Fidelity spatial audio in virtual worlds…
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A veteran Second Life insider just sent me this message they received as a member of the test group for Second Life's long-awaited, official mobile app: After reviewing the current state of the SL Mobile Viewer and the helpful feedback from residents, we have decided to pause development on this branch. The team is actively…
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This is quite possibly a dream job if you have experience in game/Internet product development: As a Senior Product Manager, you’ll utilize in-depth product knowledge to successfully drive key projects on Second Life. You’ll work alongside a supportive team of people across engineering, design, QA and other cross-functional teams to build products and new experiences…
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Really interesting conversation on the problem of virtual currency in virtual economies last week kicked off by "Kyz", who explained how difficult it was for them to reliably run a successful business in a virtual world. Replying to the idea that the value of their content is decided by the market, Kyz goes deeper into…
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Update, 4:04pm: All services reportedly back online as of 3:57pm PT, i.e. nearly 5 hours of downtime. I'm currently logged into SL. A major unplanned Second Life downtime was officially reported at 11:14 AM PT today and as of this writing at 2:30PT PT, access still seems to be interrupted across major services. (I just…
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Last month I estimated that Upland, the blockchain-backed mirror world real estate trading MMO, probably had about low-to-mid six figures of active users; now here's a pretty good data point of users who actually play Upland long enough to buy virtual real estate in it. A very active Upland user sent me the data above, …
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Over in last week's post on how Second Life might find a new audience on mobile, New World Notes' super savvy readers are picking up clues and speculating that Linden Lab is going to — or at least should — create what I'd describe as a lightweight, IMVU-like experience for mobile. Take it away, Pulsar:…
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San Francisco HQ of Tilia owner Linden Lab already owned by an Upland high roller Let's briefly check in on Upland, the virtual real estate acquisition game that's sort of Monopoly meets a mirror world, where virtual real estate is registered on the EOS blockchain, and is the first paying customer for Linden Lab's Tilia…
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