Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: NWN Partner News and Announcements
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Here's a cool update from NWN partner Equimake, the free indie platform for live, multi-user collaborative 3D building on the web: 3D Annotations, which enable creators to add clickable text descriptions throughout their scene, which when clicked, centers the user's camera angle on the annotation. To see what I mean, watch the tutorial video above…
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Cool project from Seraphim SL and proud NWN partner Bad Unicorn: A shopping HUD for in-world events and direct item purchases from many brands. Mr. Unicorn himself explains the basics in the video above, including his upcoming shopping event The Cloud, which kicks off July 23. Click to teleport to get the HUD here.
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Here's a pretty cool update to Equimake, the free indie platform for live, multi-user collaborative 3D building on the web (and a proud sponsoring NWN partner): You can now create with primitive-like shapes! They're available in the Objects menu on the left (see screenshot above). Once you click a shape, it's instantly "rezzed" into the…
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There's a pretty big new update to Equimake, the free-to-use platform for collaborative real-time 3D creation on the web (and a proud partner to New World Notes): It now comes with 900 free Unreal-based 3D assets to use in your scene-building, and there's a User Presence "avatar" indicator, to make collaborative interaction easier within the…
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Please follow my Patreon for free! And if you find New World Notes valuable, please consider subscribing! Members at the Supporter level ($5/month) get early/exclusive access to premium articles and a free Kindle copy of Making of Second Life, while subscribers at the Creator and Metaverse level ($50 or $100 month) get many additional benefits…
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This GitHub page is a resource center for The Virtual Worlds Museum (a proud media partner with New World Notes!), an incredibly ambitious project to represent the entire history and present state of virtual worlds. It's still very much a work in progress that's regularly updated, but there's already dozens upon dozens of worlds being…
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New World Notes' media partner Bad Unicorn is helping develop the Seraphim HUD, designed to make in-world shopping and events in Second Life easier and more accessible. Currently in Beta, consider trying it out, sharing feedback with the team — and get a free gift from Bad Unicorn in the process. Here's how: Click to…
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ANNOUNCEMENT: I'm excited to say New World Notes' reach will be expanding its reach in the next month or two, and I'm looking for media partners who want to be part of that expansion. By media partners, I don't just mean "advertisers", but brands and companies in the virtual world/metaverse industry which want to build…
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We’re thrilled to share that our original #WebXR game, The Escape Artist, has picked up some @webxrawards noms: Experience of the Year, Game of the Year, Entertainment Experience of the Year, and Developer of the Year! pic.twitter.com/0ZN7nG4Y7x — Paradowski Creative (@paracreative) January 26, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Update, 3/3: Event is over but awards are announced on…
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Virtual Worlds Museum Site Launches XR Resource Page For Metaverse Fans, Researchers, and Developers
There's a new XR Resources page of the Virtual Worlds Museum (a proud sponsoring partner to this blog), expanding on founder Julian Reyes' mission to make the site a central community and information hub for people fascinated with the Metaverse and virtual worlds in general. “Researchers and world builders can visit the VirtualWorlds.museum,” as Julian…
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