Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Originally published on my Patreon Above: Whitechapel, a steampunk Victorian sim — click here to teleport Just in time for the long weekend (at least here in the US), here's four lovely SL machinimas to watch, montage tributes to Second Life sims shot and edited by Sabina Valeska. "Every time I visit a sim and…
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Originally published on my Patreon Inspired by Imogen Aurelia's call for a "Blackout August", in which the Second Life community takes a break from crowded, frustrating weekend shopping events, here are three gorgeous SL mainstores to visit and explore for fun and photographs, as well as shopping –recommended and photographed by Imogen herself. First, above,…
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Click here to teleport to Mug, a mainstore in Second Life that is also an incredibly detailed and amazing seaside city being smothered by a massive kraken. (Yes.) Created by Brandy Difference, who also brought a highly different difference to the usual SL consumer experience. You'll shop in style! You'll take selfies! You'll ponder the…
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Above: Imogen and her partner in Resonance – Voice and Hangout (SLurl below) "Blackout August" is the name of a proposal from SL content creator Imogen, a call for the Second Life community to take a break from the endless, often monotonous and frustrating loop of weekend shopping events — and instead, to explore the…
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I asked for new innovative experiences in Second Life, and Alexander Locket delivers with Starlight Designs, a mainstore sim that's also a fairy tale adventure: Click here to teleport and start exploring Starlight Designs "Make sure you have sounds on, a high draw distance and the region WindLight," Alex advises. At the entrance, you literally…
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I want to highlight new-ish Second Life experiences that are highly innovative! Are there any that you haven't seen covered in New World Notes or elsewhere? Please post details (SLurl, website, social media) in Comments! By "new-ish", I mean (roughly) experiences that were uploaded to the virtual world since 2020 or later. By "innovative", I…
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//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Cat Afarensis posted this glorious picture to the Flickr group Wonderland 2.0, which is named after the sim Wonderland 2.0, Realm of Wonder. [To teleport, click here] I love her choice to do the picture in sepia, without all the bright…
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Click here to visit Bad Unicorn World, the new sim from Bhad Craven's Bad Unicorn, purveyor of zany items in Second Life — and, I think, a promising new way of solving SL's first-time "what's the point of this world?" user experience problem. Not just a visually cool sim, but as the trailer suggests, a…
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New World Notes must issue an important fact check regarding our post of May 9 entitled, "This Weekend, Why Not Ride a Flying Whale With a Tree On Its Back?" Due to an attribution error, we incorrectly identified the land of the flying whale as being that of Nyx Onyx. The correct owners are Ziki…
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I first spotted it on Flickr years ago, and it's been my Peak Metaverse mental image ever since. So I finally just did. Ride the whale, that is, while chilling out to a phonograph down below playing old timey 1920s music. Click here to teleport to ride the flying whale yourself. It's the creation of…
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