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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You may need to click through to YouTube and play with the resolution settings (which go all the way up to 2160p60!) in order to get the full, bandwidth-choking effect, but here's Second Life displayed at 4K resolution. Redditor "tb_inuyasha_x" shot it with the Black Dragon viewer with some pretty impressive hardware (specs below). However,…
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Above: Art created by an AI called "Alejandro", and the AI-generated photo of "Alejandro" When last we spoke with August Rosedale, he was selling NFT art created by AI from artists also created by AIs. But as he writes now, the perceived value of AI-based art has hit a ceiling, perhaps, because there's no actual…
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//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Panda Bandana’s “Frogmore 3.0 Photo Contest” picture is a great picture of someone painting in Second Life. For me, a picture of someone painting should show a canvas that reflects what is in front of the painter. Most of the Easel/Canvas/Pose…
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From Chic’s post “EPIPHANY GOODBYE GACHA“ Good analysis on the coming end of SL gachas from Chic Aeon, who’s both an SL blogger and a sometime gacha creator, echoing my sense that their end will significantly impact the virtual world economy as a whole: I rarely played gacha machines; only the ones with “no losers”…
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I'm blogging Matthew Ball’s must-read, nine part metaverse primer over the Summer; my take on Part 1 is here, my coverage of Part 2 is here, with Part 3 coverage here and Part 4 coverage here. In Virtual Platforms and the Metaverse, Matthew Ball gets into potential ontological territory by making a distinction between virtual platforms, virtual worlds/online games, and…
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Image credit: Christopher Michel While it's true that Metaverse developers typically dismiss the technology's dystopian origins, it does not therefore follow that the Metaverse's original creator, Neal Stephenson, considers the technology itself to be dystopian. That was implied in a recent Vice essay, and now more recently by The New Yorker's Kyle Chayka, who tweeted,…
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Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation is a new book from MIT Press (available on Amazon here and on Bookshop here) by Dr. Nettrice Gaskins, someone I've written about and admired for years. One of the first and best academics to explore and write about Second Life as an artistic platform, her debut book focuses on a…
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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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//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Moi’s photostream is full of charming pictures like this one that offer just a touch of the absurd such as this plane's homage to Leonardo da Vinci’s flying machine. Not to mention, the flying machine is piloted by a teddy bear.…
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Late last month, Vaki, a longtime Second Life user who is also a real life attorney that's represented several SL users on legal questions, told New World Notes to expect a crackdown on SL-based gachas: "Realistically," as Vaki puts it to me, "the likely scenario — if there is ever a crackdown — is that…
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