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: New World Culture
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For Metaverse movie night, two new movies are available for streaming. The first above, A Glitch in the Matrix, is a documentary that explores the concept dramatized by the Wachowski siblings' movies and raised decades ago by Philip K. Dick: We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it…
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This striking abstract painting is by an up-and-coming artist named Taylor; you can bid on it for $200 or more soon, in hopes it becomes a rare collectors’ item that symbolizes the start of a new art movement. Because the thing is, “Taylor” is not an artist and this is not a “painting” as we…
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You know that Dwight from The Office has such a perfect life, he literally wanted a Second Life. But did you know he was also invited to go even deeper? (Wait, wrong movie.) NBC recently out out this fairly funny unseen scene where Dwight has a chance to take the red pill or the blue…
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There's an official ROBLOX experience promoting Ready Player 2, the new sequel to the metaverse novel partly inspired by Second Life and became so influential, it was required reading for employees at Oculus. (Because why not make a dystopian novel about a future so horrible everyone wants to live in VR a company's frame of…
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As you already may have noticed if you're even somewhat online, US Congresswoman (and bonafide gamer) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hosted her first Twitch stream last night, a Get Out the Vote promotional effort disguised as an Among Us play stream (or vice versa). The viewership was massive: Almost 700,000 tuned in on Twitch to watch her…
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With less than a month before the next U.S. Presidential election, here's new survey results from the development team of Blind, an anonymous messaging/virtual community app for company staffers that's especially popular at large tech firms. This one asked a question that's been the subject of constant press coverage since the 2016 election: Is Facebook doing enough…
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I recently received interesting new survey results from the development team of Blind, an anonymous messaging app for company staffers. When employees at top tech companies were anonymously asked whether they supported Trump or Biden in the upcoming election, the results were often more evenly split than Silicon Valley's reputation as a liberal bastion might suggest. Here's the…
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Pictured: Aech's hangout from Ready Player One recreated in Second Life with Ernest Cline's blessing Well this seems inevitable and comes at the strangest possible time: Ready Player One author Ernest Cline is stepping back into the Oasis, with his long-gestating sequel Ready Player Two launching Nov. 24 in North America. Ready Player One, released…
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Jeff Berg, a Webby Award winning designer, has a thoughtful and valuable Medium post on the etiquette of virtual meetings, especially the kind many of us in the quarantine age now have every day on video conferencing systems like Zoom. Berg brings his long experience as a UX designer to bear on what is, for…
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