Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Survey
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Here's some very interesting survey data from developers at Blind, the anonymous community app for employees, asking users in the high tech sector their opinion of Facebook's shift to Meta and Mark Zuckerberg's plan to make a Metaverse capable of holding over a billion users. Taken between October 28 and November 1 by 11,673 verified tech…
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Here's the results of New World Notes' survey on how the coming end of gachas in Second Life will impact the larger virtual economy. A strong majority of the 89 respondents (65%) predicted that the loss of gachas and related events will cause no significant loss in virtual land (i.e. sims) or user activity of…
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Loading… Now that we know that come month's end, gachas gotta get gone, please take this survey asking how their removal will impact the Second Life economy. While Linden Lab releases few economic/user stats to the public, we can track sim ownership and concurrency rates via third party data sites like Grid Survey. Hence the…
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Click here to take the survey! Famed VRChat reporter Syrmor and I are running a short VRC user survey to get a better understanding of who's a member of the growing virtual world and why. In a week or two, we'll hopefully report the results on his social media channels and of course here's on…
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Loading… Quick favor, excellent readers: Let me know if you're interested in a New World Notes newsletter, where subscribers will get special articles and other content. While I plan to always post to New World Notes the blog you're reading now, a subscription-based newsletter (if there's enough interest!) would give me a chance to devote…
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With less than a month before the next U.S. Presidential election, here's new survey results from the development team of Blind, an anonymous messaging/virtual community app for company staffers that's especially popular at large tech firms. This one asked a question that's been the subject of constant press coverage since the 2016 election: Is Facebook doing enough…
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Here's the results of our not-super-scientific survey asking SLers how they feel about the future of Second Life under its new corporate ownership. With 212 respondents (a quite large sample size), the plurality chose "Pessimistic" as their attitude, while 1 in 3 chose "Optimistic". Meanwhile, 1 in 4 say it doesn't change their opinion either…
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Loading… Read the news here, then make your choice above! And be sure to discuss your answer in Comments! Update, 7/14: Bumped up for Tuesday morning voting!
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See the full screen versions here, select your favorite below, and scroll to down to click the Submit button! Loading… Voting runs until end of Wednesday, Pacific time. Winner announced later this week!
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting It is time for you our viewers to vote for the winner of the #NoAvatarSocialDistance Challenge. While we are staying at home and social distancing in our first lives, in our virtual world we are free to hang out, to congregate, even…
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