Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Real World Applications of SL
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//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js The gloriously dorky Deadpool dance from the opening of Deadpool & Wolverine (SL version above, original from the movie below) is officially available in a Second Life store*. I say "official", because the SL animation is a motion capture of dancer Nick Pauley AKA Dancepool, who actually performed the opening scene of the movie.…
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//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js As it turns out, the Deadpool dance from the opening of Deadpool & Wolverine is officially available in Second Life: Nick Pauley aka "Dancepool" shares the moves he did in the opening scene of "Deadpool x Wolverine" movie. The dance is based off of the 2000 MTV video music-award winning choreography "Bye Bye Bye"…
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This is a beautiful new machinima from auteur Teal Aurelia, but with a special new twist: It's also a promotion for a track from real life pop singer SEMINA, who's had several hits in her home country in the EU, but had her music career undone by the recent pandemic. "[I] was preparing for a…
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Aspiring filmmaker Tim Hannan has been experimenting with using generative AI programs lately for an upcoming project he's developing. Hannan also has a background with shooting Second Life machinima back in the day, when he was creating videos for Metaverse TV. (Avatar name: Robustus Hax.) So he's been using raw SL footage as a visual…
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In case you missed it last week, here's the Discovery Channel's BattleBots fight between SlapBox and Sharko, prototyped in Second Life by Artorius Constantine, owner of SL's Nano Station Technologies store. Sent to us via BattleBots super-fan Devin Vaughn, it is almost more brutal and merciless as a major fashion drop in SL, which is…
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Above: Sharky in SL and in RL (images courtesy Constantine of Nano Station Technologies Tonight at 8pm on the Discovery Channel (check your local listings!), there's a chance for Second Life users to cheer on a hometown champion: Episode 6, third fight of the night, it's Sharko (woot woot!) versus Slap Box (boo! hiss!) on…
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Gargoyle presents his chair design to students and instructors Industrial designer Robb Godshaw was recently set to co-teach a class in rapid prototyping at San Francisco State University, when a somewhat inconvenient global pandemic broke out. As originally planned, students would first learn how to use CAD software, and then learn how to use to…
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