Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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- Welcome to New World Notes’ 2006-2025 Archive!
- Virtual World Usage Stats from S&P Global Market Intelligence — Plus VRChat & Second Life Specifics!
- 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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Roblox just sent me some key data from Q4 2022 for the metaverse platform: 58.8 million average daily active users in Q4 2022. Year-over-year growth in DAUs: Europe up 24%, APAC up 21%, and US/Canada up 19%. Year-over-year growth across all age groups. Highest growth reportedly among users 17-24 year olds, "who comprise 31% who…
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Chart via Metaversed Here’s the core slice of the Metaverse Universe chart just updated for Q1 2023 by longtime virtual world consultant Nic Mitham. (Click here for the full report.) Main takeaway for me is this is slow but substantial user growth from his Q4 2022 report, when the grand total across all metaverse platforms…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Nani Soulstar’s post Memories on the Prairie comes with a cute sidebar that has the pictures she shot with her camera. I love the meadow setting and her outfit is fun. Her dress is from ZENITH by Miffy Rosca, an old friend…
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Please Like Subscribe! For New World Video vlogcast Ep 7 – holiday edition, we chat about my upcoming book, selling TikTok dances for avatars, and we solve Second Life’s infamous retention problem. Plus we make and review 2023 predictions from viewers and ourselves, and take a look at several fun holiday gift ideas! And…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Is there a song you used to love but have come to dislike because it is played over and over and over again? I feel the same way about Second Life photo cliches. There’s nothing wrong with them, they might even be…
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Meta Connect's keynote came and went today, and to my surprise, there were no announcements of the Quest 2's total install base so far. However, in a story earlier this week, the New York Times estimated it to be 15 million: The company’s consumer V.R. headset, the Quest 2, is the most popular V.R. headset…
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Streamable above or at the links below, part 2 of The Wall Street Journal's "How to Build a Metaverse" podcast mini-series just went up, and it's incredibly fun listen back to the Wild West days of Second Life. I appear on the show talking about the War of the Jessie Wall (which I wrote about…
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//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Welcome to Celestial Machine’s world, a neon-bright, wild, and frenetic world as crazy as anything you can imagine. But he can imagine it. And it’s brilliant. I am at a loss to describe his work, but I love it. And just…
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Media on a Prim is a cool Second Life feature which enables users to stream web-based media content on primitives in the virtual world. It's also now being used for a griefer exploit that Linden Lab just patched up: Today I was at a rental office and noticed a few people hanging around the welcome…
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Just added to the Classic New World Notes stories section: "—And He Rezzed a Crooked House—", my 2006 post about a mathematics professor (a grad student at the time) who created a tesseract house inspired by Robert Heinlein's classic short story with a similar name. It actually makes more sense (but is still pretty mind-blowing)…
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