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: Open Forum
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After covering hundreds and hundreds of the very best, most artistic Second Life image creators on Flickr for nearly 10 years, Cajsa Lilliehook is looking for new creators to feature on her regular New World Notes column. (New, or new to her!) Question is, who? Ideally we're looking for creators who haven't been featured in…
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I'm preparing to write an in-depth report on the internal user-driven Second Life economy, which remains one of the most thriving in the entire industry. (And arguably better than even Roblox.) As part of that, I'll be conducting an anonymous survey of SL-based content creators, trying to capture the overall state of the market, while…
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In case you missed it (and I sure have!), Cajsa's regular column covering her favorite Second Life-based Flickr photographers and artists has been paused, as she deals with some various real life logistics. Meantime, who are some of your favorite photographers/artists she should cover? Please post their feeds in Comments, or tag a specific picture…
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Here's an open forum to please share anything even vaguely SL/Metaverse-related that's on your mind, the more opinionated, the better. I'm still recovering from the GamesBeat NEXT conference on Tuesday while Cajsa held down the fort, but should be back to normal by tomorrow. Also please connect: On Twitter/X, I'm "SLHamlet" On Discord, I'm "wja_hamlet"…
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Apologies on behalf of Typepad, my super awesome blogging service, which had a server outage for most of today. Blogging should resume to normal speeds by tomorrow. Meantime, here's an open forum to discuss or share content. I'll go first: In case you missed it, here's my main contact/social media channels. I'm "Hamlet Au" in…
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I was just doing a podcast interview about the book, happily getting into the weeds about the Metaverse and its history, when the host asked me a question that caused me to go blank: "So what are some movies and TV shows about the Metaverse you recommend to listeners?" By brain seriously went empty for…
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With the year 2022 starting to sunset, it's time to gather reader predictions for the New Year! Anything having to do with any metaverse platform (SL, VRChat, even Horizon Worlds) or related technology (VR, AI, MMOs, etc). As always, the more falsifiable the prediction is, i.e. concrete enough to empirically prove or disprove, the better!…
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Thanks to everyone who watched the first New World Video vlogast with SL YouTUber Isabelle Cheren last week! (Watch it here). We're preparing for our 2nd episode next week, and it will include a viewer Q&A mailbag. So if you have any burning question about Second Life, the Metaverse, and related topics, no matter how…
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Just got a good question from reader Cathleen Lunasea that's an ideal open forum question before the long Labor Day Weekend here in the US: "Do you have any recommendation for a not too heavy laptop to play SL?" The "not too heavy" qualifier is an important one, because you can run Second Life quite…
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As my material self is on a short Summer trip this week, the microphone is yours. What topics would you like to read and see more of on New World Notes, and why?
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