Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: space virtual world
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Update 3/11: Time has been changed to 3pm PT based on this announcement. This coming Thursday at 4pm PT, Sinespace is hosting an in-world fireside chat with co-founder Adam Frisby and Adam Goodrich, founder of Procedural Worlds, creator of the powerful Unity terrain tool Gaia, which can be used in Sinespace to build massive, highly…
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The new Archipelago region in Sinespace (a proud New World Notes media partner) recently opened up, and it’s a whole massive mini-world for people who love vehicle sims of all kinds: It’s about 20 x 20 square miles of land/water mass — completely seamless from end to end. (Yes, with no region crossings.) Up to…
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Starting tomorrow (February 27) at 9am PT, the community of Sinespace (a media partner to this blog) are unveiling Discovery Island with a grand opening festival. Hosted by Mimi Marie, it’s a weekend of fun events (schedule below) featuring many of the best creators and designers working on the platform, and prize giveaways worth up…
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The ST X1 is a new user-made airplane in Sinespace (a proud sponsoring partner to New World Notes) that’s attracted quite a lot of buzz within the user community. Created by Carsten Stark, co-creator of the equally impressive Localhost Connection Cafe, the ST XI is fully physics-enabled and comes with a cockpit HUD with real…
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Acclaimed artist and filmmaker David Lynch recently appeared in avatar form in Breakroom, the virtual world for live events from Sine Wave Entertainment (a sponsoring partner to New World Notes). Lynch did so to receive an award from Mexico’s Guanajuato International Film Festival (or GIFF), one of world’s largest annual cinema events. Due to the…
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Click here for exclusive access to a new Sinespace feature launch party for Sinespace community members and all other virtual world explorers/creators. The event opens August 5 at 8:30am PT, then starts at 9am PT. You don’t need a Sinespace account to attend, but it will be held in a secret virtual world location, so…
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UPDATE: Show embedded below!
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Miro Shot, the acclaimed alt rock band inspired by virtual worlds, is performing a special concert tomorrow inside a virtual world: Specifically at their virtual headquarters in Sinespace (a NWN media partner). Show starts July 4 at 2pm PT — go to the band’s site to RSVP for free. In the Sinespace concert, Miro Shot…
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Above: 3D character in the Unity Asset Store (left), and what it looks like imported into Sinespace (right, click to embiggen) Gamasutra has the story on a new Sinespace partnership and while I'm highly biased as a media partner of Sinespace myself, I think is quite cool: Sine Wave Entertainment, the studio behind free-to-play MMO…
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Click here to register for a free ticket to BlockDown, the blockchain-focused tech conference kicking off today that’s being hosted in Sinespace’s Breakroom (a media partner to this blog). As VentureBeat reported recently, the first BlockDown in Sinespace (video above) brought in a pretty impressive number of attendees to network, hear talks, and of course,…
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