Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Open Sim
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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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Why the Metaverse is Beating Gen AI https://t.co/0CegcGDiSk — Open Metaverse Interoperability Group (@open_metaverse) September 6, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Thanks to everyone from the Open Metaverse Interoperability Group especially host @jimmy6DOF for the fun and spicy conversation last Friday — you can listen to the whole thing above (starting around 4 minutes in), with some particular…
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When I recently wrote about all the impressive innovation happening on Wolf Grid, an OpenSim-based virtual world developed by small team, I didn't even mention one of its coolest breakthroughs: Wolf Grid has an option which uses ChatGPT to generate usable terrain with a prompt. Watch above, with the money shot happening around 6:30 in. In…
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I had worried my story on OpenSim-based world Wolf Grid might be too niche for readers, but to judge by reader comments, many virtual world veterans are giving it and other OpenSimulator worlds a closer look. Soda Sullivan argues that more innovation is happening across OpenSim worlds for the very reason they're often developed…
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I haven’t heard much in the way of innovation in OpenSim virtual worlds lately (though maybe I haven’t been asking in the right places), and somewhat assumed the open source version of Second Life had reached a sunset point. But someone I trust recently told me about the Wolf Grid, and my jaw steadily dropped.…
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Starting at 12:30pm PT today, you can watch this Twitch channel to see yet another clever solution to teaching a large group of students in quarantine times: UC Irvine computer scientist Crista Lopes, being "sick and tired of teaching in Zoom", moved her class of 150 students to OpenSimulator, an open source virtual world. And…
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Among the many problems the COVID pandemic has created is the challenge of opening up elementary schools while also teaching kids the importance of maintaining social distance. But how do you teach social distancing to kids who are learning remotely? Enter the SORBET project (for Socially Responsible Behaviours through Embodied Thinking), created in OpenSim, the…
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