Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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- Welcome to New World Notes’ 2006-2025 Archive!
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- 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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Courtesy virtual world pioneer / developer Jorge Lima, this is an archive of New World Notes from 2006 to late 2025, when Typepad, my blog’s original service, went out of business. Images are unavailable and many backlinks are broken, unfortunately. You can also visit Internet Archive for New World Notes backstories here. Now, the good…
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Loading… Note: Survey may be difficult to take on a smartphone — use PC/laptop for best results On average, when you're out in public (parks, streets, restaurants, etc.), how often do you notice people wearing and using Meta Ray-Bans to take photos, access AI, etc? Please choose the closest answer to your experience and read…
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I don't usually run missed connection posts, but it's Summer and this one recently posted on Reddit is too adorbs to ignore: I was staying at a Resort in Waikiki Hawaii this past week and met someone who plays SL… They saw my husband, son, and two dogs in the lobby as they were checking…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Justice’s “Surreal” portrays a broken-hearted woman who hides her face in her arms so we cannot see that she is crying, perhaps. The description describes the surreal aspect of broken relationships, the movement from caring so very much to not at all.…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Katie Horten posted this great pic of her in a field with some sheep and a rather old tractor. I love the bluish tinge to this picture. I was thinking about tractors today because they had a big tractor pull at the…
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//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Elspeth Apricitty Poe takes pictures for her own enjoyment. Fortunately for us, she shares them on Flickr. This pic caught my eye. It is a lovely pic, but what drew me is how artfully she shares a quiet, ordinary moment. Who…
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How much should mesh artists really expect to make, in SL and IRL? I'm very excited to run this Patreon guest article by Anya Ohmai, who's extremely qualified to discuss this topic, both as co-owner of the James&Dew SL brand and a pro-level 3D artist in games and movies — she worked on Marvel's…
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Philip Rosedale has a classically Philip post announcing a new plan to attack lag in Second Life — by reducing jitter: "Jitter" refers to the difference between when a frame is displayed and when it was expected to be displayed. For example, a game running at 60FPS is supposed to display a new frame every 16…
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What's the Most Innovative New-ish Second Life Experience on the Grid? VRChat Community Keep Creating Sisyphean Monument Into Virtual Sky Second Life Users Are Asking ChatGPT to Turn Their Avatars Into IRL Selfies and the Results Are Amazing After Talking With 3 Experts, I'm Convinced XR Headsets Will NEVER Go Mainstream — But That Big…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Yumi Sere posted this fantastic picture last year. I forget how I came across it, but I love it. It’s so compelling even though, at first glance, you might think it’s breaking all the rules of composition with that sheep up near…
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