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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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Ryan Schultz covers the metaverse beat in his self-titled blog. He did an editorial on Valentine’s Day that I like quite a bit and it includes some shopping tips. In Old Age in Virtual Worlds and Social VR-Why the Representation of Aging…
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Forget about Gartner's Hype Cycle for a moment — which after all, having been around since 1995, has lost much its hype– here's a really interesting chart from researcher Johannes Klingebiel for thinking about hype. (At right; to read each category description, click to embiggenate.) Background from Johannes here: Hype is an interesting thing. It‘s…
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Update, 2/4: I initially estimated a Quest 2 install base of nearly 7 million but forgot to count Portal sales and accidentally separated out Oculus app revenue. I've revised the estimate (and title) accordingly. Apologies for the error! (Hat tip: Amal Dorai.) With Facebook/Meta's latest earning report, it's once again time to play "estimate Quest…
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Sanny Yoshikawa が、New World Notesのなかから、毎月おすすめのバーチャルワールドニュースを日本語で紹介します。 Sanny Yoshikawa covers the monthly virtual world highlights from New World Notes for virtual Japan.
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Skye McLeod Fairywren cracked me up with this picture of a ticket-collecting plesiosaurus with no patience for fare-jumpers. “Listen kid, if ya wanna ride, ya gotta pay for a ticket, just like everybody else.” I did not know plesiosaurus had a Brooklyn…
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Here's a really interesting editorial video from veteran Second Life advocate Luca, arguing that Linden Lab and the user community are sitting on a goldmine: Nearly 20 years of 3D content, much of which could be exported and licensed for use in other platforms. "There's no way," as Luca puts it, "for any company on…
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My 12 Favorite New World Notes Posts On Metaverse Culture From 2021 My Metaverse Predictions For 2022: Likely Partnerships / Acquisitions, VR Headset Sales, Scandals & Much More Six Surprising Ways Using Second Life Improved Users In Real Life VRChat User Concurrency Hit Nearly 90,000 Last New Year's Eve! Shock Stat: More People Own Items…
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Today’s SL Flickr Pick: Surprising & Comic Images By an Avatar Artist Called Mayonnaise Dinglegagger
Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Mayonnaise Dinglegagger may have the best name in Second Life. She also has an endlessly inventive and surprising photostream. The title is “Rain, rain, go away,” but how can it go away when it’s all wrapped around her. Rainclouds under an umbrella…
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Image credit: Christopher Michel Interesting comment from Neal while talking with CNBC about his new environmental sci-fi novel Termination Shock: [CNBC reporter] I have to ask about the metaverse, a term that you coined in the book “Snow Crash” in 1992. Now it’s everywhere in tech. It was on Disney’s earnings call! Everybody in the tech…
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"What if Linden Lab marketed Second Life as an ante-litteram Minecraft instead?", asks reader Pulsar, in a post about the wrong Metaverse lessons being learned from SL. By "ante-litteram", Pulsar means "ahead of one’s time", but that's a cooler way of saying that. Pulsar proceeds to explore a re-marketing of SL as a creative platform:…
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