Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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- 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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Matthew Ball's much-anticipated book The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everything is launching on July 19th, and my preview copy finally arrived. (Links to buy it below.) I've already started delving into it, and even after just a couple chapters in, have roughly two dozen follow-up questions I can't wait to discuss with him. …
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Here's a cool Linden Lab project to give creative SL users some social media love and attention. Beyond the Usual Subjects we're already familiar with, who would you nominate that's recent-ish to the Second Life community (i.e. the last few years) — or at least recent-ish to you? Here's five I myself would nominate that…
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Writing about Udon Tycoon in VRChat last week, it occurred to me that I haven't covered a Second Life-based project of similar ambition and scope in a long time. (Beautiful sims, to be sure, we got that covered, along with light roleplay game experiences in SL.) But Udon Tycoon has user-created, physics-enabled, save-able coaster building…
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We know that many seniors like the late Fran Serenade (above) have found great value in using Second Life, both as a social/creative platform and (as in Fran's case) even finding therapeutic value in them. However, many seniors have difficulty learning or using the SL viewer for Mac/PC. But what if the virtual world was…
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You'll likely need to wear your headphones to hear it, but on a recent visit to my office in Waterhead in SL, I noticed the location was starting to sound really lovely. Not just due to my artificial tide, but recently a neighbor added one of those lonely pier bells, while another had installed a…
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Events, announcements, products, videos, social trends, research, anything roughly related to virtual worlds and VR, Second Life and its many official and unofficial spinoffs — and definitely also great Flickr feeds for Cajsa's column — please post details and links in Comments!
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Image credit: Klaus Reinherz, "Socially Distanced New Year 2020/21" Here's mine: There will be a departure in Linden Lab's C-suite, i.e. CEO/COO/CFO/CTO. Both VRChat and Rec Room will finally surpass Second Life in peak concurrency numbers. Related to the above, either VRChat or Rec Room will be acquired by a major platform/company. Second Life's long-awaited…
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