Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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- Virtual World Usage Stats from S&P Global Market Intelligence — Plus VRChat & Second Life Specifics!
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Category: NWN Partner News and Announcements
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Bad Unicorn, proud purveyors of creative chaos with Second Life friends (and an awesome sponsoring partner to NWN), has a new Discord server: Join the fun plus SL weekend specials, giveaways, and a L$20K raffle. Speaking of specials, Bad Unicorn just released several sweet holiday-themed decor items in the mainstore (click here to teleport), with…
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Bad Unicorn has a whole Santa's bag full of zany fun items for your chaotic holiday events in Second Life — starting with this cannabis Christmas tree with seriously dank ornaments. Get it for L$799 at the Kustom9 shopping extravaganza: Click here to teleport! Also on sale in-world is Bad Unicorn's better version of Elf…
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Watch this sneak peak of the XR wing of the Virtual World Museum (a proud media sponsor to this blog)! While I'm somewhat biased, it's pretty cool how team lead Julian Reyes is able to seamlessly jump through one virtual world to the next, with no loading screen or log-in page — even leaping through…
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The Virtual Worlds Museum – WebXR Exhibit crowdfunder on Indiegogo (which I'm proud to support as a sponsored partnter!) The very top tier, Virtual Exhibit World Build, costs $11,000 but comes with a raft of benefits including your own custom 3D exhibit world build. This would be an ideal for, say, game/virtual world startups and…
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This is a fun and useful timeline for the history of virtual worlds from the team at the Virtual World Museum (a proud sponsoring partner!) which starts all the way back to Plato's Allegory of the Cave from 375 BCE to the present day. Very much a project in progress, developers of current virtual…
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Excited to announce a new sponsoring partner to New World Notes: A crowdfunder to create the first Virtual Worlds Museum in WebXR! Spearheaded by Julian Reyes, a passionate advocate of virtual worlds, this is the first project I'm aware of to create an immersive museum dedicated to depicting the decades-long history of virtual worlds in…
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As I continue promoting The Book and pondering my next career step — go back to working for a metaverse company, become an analyst, start a column/podcast* are three likely steps — one thing is certain: New World Notes will continue, and keep striving to bring readers the best/most interesting content from Second Life and…
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I'm psyched to welcome Bad Unicorn as a sponsoring media partner to New World Notes. Founded by Bhad Craven (Second Life Spotlight profile here), Bad Unicorn is a leading creator of SL items ideal for creating comic chaos with friends. That's Bhad above, hitting me in the face with his newest item: Thor's Hammer, i.e. a…
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In case you missed it, here's New World Notes' media/rate card for handy downloading as a .PDF/PPT file (below). As you'll notice, there's good discounts for L$ and longer-term engagements. Download New World Notes Rate Card To get in touch with New World Notes' marketing exec “Demonica” send an e-mail to ads at new-world-notes dot…
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In the run-up to the publication of Why the Metaverse Matters, we're looking for a new media partner! If you're reading this post, chances our your customers and potential customers are too. Our ideal partnership are brand(s) active in Second Life, VRChat, Roblox and other metaverse platforms featured on New World Notes, along devices /…
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