Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
recent posts
- 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!
about
Category: NWN Site Info/Projects
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I'm here on Substack, and if you are too, please subscribe. I'm still seeding my Substack account with recent classic stories; if there's a decent readership there, I'll start putting my latest general interest XR/metaverse industry stories there too. SL-related posts will continue here on New World Notes and often appear first on my Patreon. …
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I’m excited to help announce that The Virtual Worlds Museum™ is starting pre-production of Season 2 of our YouTube series exploring virtual worlds first-hand. This upcoming season is focused on VR & App-based virtual worlds, which include: Horizon Worlds, Roblox, Second Life, Rec Room, Resonite, Engage XR, VRChat, and Viverse. As an advisor with the…
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I just added a new bonus for Patreon subscribers at the $2/month Prim level: A text-based ad (up to 10 words) and link for your virtual world brand on New World Notes' homepage! This is a highly affordable way to get your product / service mentioned on the Internet's most read Second Life/virtual world news…
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Here’s my official shout-out to AvatarLife, a new Creator-level subscriber of my Patreon, and an OpenSim-based virtual world worth checking out. It was founded by Sushant AvatarLife (in-world name), who tells me the world has over 1200 monthly active users and 300+ daily active users, making it one of the larger OpenSim worlds. It also…
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The Virtual Worlds Museum just unveiled its first set of interactive hubs and exhibits within multiple virtual world platforms including Roblox, Horizon Worlds, Rec Room, and (yes!) Second Life, which I'm helping finalize as a longtime consultant. While I'm somewhat biased, I do believe this is the most ambitious effort to created a unified experience…
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I'm once again signing books at Augmented World Expo in Long Beach next month (June 10-12), and am excited to say that's where I'm also introducing a new 2025 edition of the afterword. Hope to you see there! If you are interested in coming, here's a special 10% off discount code: Enter SPKR25D during sign-up.…
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I'm still working with Julian Reyes and his Virtual Worlds Museum to compile the most comprehensive list of virtual worlds online. Now that we've compiled this list of sunsetted virtual worlds, we're updating our next category: Specialized. In our definition, Specialized virtual worlds fall roughly into this category: Virtual worlds primarily created for Education/Training, Meetings,…
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Above: Cloud Party before being acquired and shuttered by Yahoo! Thanks to everyone, especially VR legend Jacki Morie, for helping update this list of sunsetted virtual worlds that I'm compiling with Julian Reyes and the Virtual Worlds Museum. Based on that feedback, we're adding these three to the VWM's exhibit: Barbie Girls – 2007 to 2011 Browser-based…
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Apologies for the delay in blogging, but this was the view from our Los Angeles neighborhood last night, followed by an inverted pyramid of black smoke which blotted out half the morning sky. I'm safe and out of (relative) danger, and hope to be back posting on my usual pace tomorrow, when the material world…
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Starting this week, my Patreon subscribers on the Supporter level* get an additional benefit option that'll show up here on New World Notes: A 300 x 150 permanent ad to your virtual world brand! (Subscribers can also gift their ad to a friend with a brand!) I just added my first ads for Rapture, a…
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