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!
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Category: Open Forum
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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 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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Check out our latest wing of the Virtual Worlds Museum ™, this one devoted to Blockchain Worlds, i.e. virtual worlds integrated on some significant level with crypto/blockchain, or what's often called web3. This is very much a work in progress, and we're looking to add other web3 virtual worlds beyond the twenty or so we're…
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Last week's open forum where readers recommended new-ish, small-ish brands for me to feature went so well, I'd like to make it a regular series.* So I ask once again: What new-ish, smaller, lesser known SL merchants/brands deserve more attention and publicity? To nominate your favorites, please go to Comments and post: Name of the…
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One of the very top requests in my survey of Second Life merchants was this one: Start promoting and supporting smaller/newer/lesser-known brands – not just "top" designers. The suggestion was directed at Linden Lab, but that's also something that I'd love to do on this blog as well. But I need reader's help with recommendations!…
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I'm starting to prepare my much-anticipated report on the state of the Second Life economy for 2025 — a follow-up to this report from last year — and it will include an anonymous survey sent to SL merchants. Below are the questions I'm planning to ask. Are there other burning queries I should include?
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Last week's post on Second Life's huge geographic size as a unique selling point brought up some interesting points. Technically SL is probably not the "largest" if we're only talking about geographic size, but I think the apples to apples comparison question is precisely this: What is the Geographically Largest, Contiguous, Multi-User, Fully Explorable, Online…
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Post your own predictions for highlighting here and on New World Notes, the more concrete and easier to validate, the better!* I'll start with two of my own: Thanks to the launch of Linden Lab's mobile app and cloud streaming, Second Life increases peak concurrent users by at least 20%. I predicted something like this would…
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Last month, New World Notes readers selected Aardvark and The Discord Experts as favorite new-ish SL brands. For November, I'd like to profile one or two other brands! If you'd like to nominate one, please post details in Comments. Here's info/criteria to include: SL brand must be 5 years old or younger Include brand's Marketplace…
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I'm compiling a finalist list of new-ish Second Life brands to feature next month but still have some openings for consideration! If you'd like to nominate some personal favorites in Comments below, here's the info/criteria to include: SL brand must be 5 years old or less Brand's Marketplace listing Brand's social media feed (Flickr, X/Twitter,…
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