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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With a shout-out to Matthew Balls' Metaverse primer (its massive influence in the industry is why I'm blogging it part by part), Mark Zuckerberg just made a pretty startling announcement: I think over the next five years or so, in this next chapter of our company, I think we will effectively transition from people seeing…
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Remember that painfully funny YouTube video of Second Life's first-time user experience? I was thinking about it recently while playing Scavengers, the fun new sandbox/multiplayer combat game with a senior designer who's a former Linden. This is what Scavenger's first-time user experience looks like — watch above. Because while it's in a very different genre…
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Linden Lab just announced that its long (long!) awaiting iOS app for Second Life has finally been approved by Apple, so expect that coming soon — this mini scoop via sharp-eyed SL fan blogger Daniel Voyager, who took furious notes as staffer Keira Linden gave details in a recent meeting in SL itself: [Linden Lab…
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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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Linden Lab finally posted its big budget commercial we discussed last week on its YouTube channel, so it's a good time to post this long analysis by longtime virtual world user Pulsar on the challenges it faces: Look at SL presence on social media: it tends to be negligible. Not just on Facebook or Twitter,…
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Click to embiggen — Hamlet for scale (in silhouette on the platform at left) If you're still in the 18th anniversary spirit, why not take a trip to see (and explore) the oldest user-created content in Second Life: The looming beanstalk of Steller Sunshine. Click here to teleport. The beanstalk's goal is to reach by leaping…
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Click here to visit and pay your respects; there are candles on his memorial, and when you touch them, they light. (And fittingly, they also burn out over time.) A site created by the Linden Moles, I've visited several times, and there are usually a few others gathered there to pay their respects. And yes…
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Cao Fei, one of the world's most acclaimed artists, is easily the most well-known artist to use Second Life as an artistic medium. And now, some of her SL-based works are being featured by the world's most acclaimed modern art museum, the MOMA in NYC. If you're visiting New York this Summer/Fall, another installation of…
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Update, June 2: Added more details on the giant avatars. If you're wondering how well last weekend's stress test went in ScavLab, the sandbox testing platform in Scavengers, take a look at this fairly jaw-dropping video featuring excerpts from the event. A rep with Improbable, which provides Scavengers' server architecture, tells me they racked up…
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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.
Wagner James Au / New World Notes 