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Watch: YouTube Capture of SL’s New Homepage Video, With Music & Voiceover from YouTuber Isabelle Cheren

May 24, 2021

If you haven't yet seen the new mixed reality web video on Second Life's homepage — or can't — SL YouTuber Isabelle Cheren captured the video and scored it with some music and some Cheren-voiced copy. Speaking of which, do me a favor and go to the homepage and let us know if you can…
Play Scavengers, Ambitious Sandbox Game With a Senior Designer Who Got His Start Creating Shooters in Second Life

May 7, 2021

Scavengers is a new free-to-play multiplayer hardcore game with some serious face-punching action and hybrid gameplay (sandbox, PVE, PVP, etc). And while it might not seem so on the surface, it's something of a second cousin to Second Life. For one thing, it runs on Spatial OS, Improbable's platform for deploying massive single shard MMOs, and…
Sannyのおすすめバーチャルワールドニュース : 2021年4月 Sanny Reports For Virtual Japan

May 6, 2021

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.
Watch Life 2.0, the Best Documentary on Second Life Now Available on Netflix — And My Interview With the Director Below

April 16, 2021

Click here to watch before Netflix pulls it from the streaming library (as the company often does): Life 2.0, the acclaimed 2010 documentary on virtual world life, love, business, and identity — and how they all bleed over into the real world. And I do mean acclaimed: After premiering at Sundance, the film had a…
Sannyのおすすめバーチャルワールドニュース : 2021年3月 Sanny Reports for Virtual Japan

April 2, 2021

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.
Don’t Underestimate ROBLOX Creation Tools — They’ve Created Hit Games As Popular As Top Games on Steam (Comment of the Week #2)

March 15, 2021

Above: ROBLOX FPS Arsenal from the ROLVe Community Replying to ROBLOX's massive IPO last week, one reader was skeptical it could grow beyond its main market of younger teens, saying, "Older teens and adults expect more from games than what can be built with Roblox Studio" — and to that, Nodoka Hanamura posted this reply…
Can Second Life Catch Up With VRChat’s Creation Tools? A Graphics Pro Explains the Problems — And Offers Some Partial Solutions

February 25, 2021

Right: The same avatar made by Krample selling to VRChat users for $40 and (below) for SL users for L$550 (under $3) I recently told you about a 3D creator called “Krample”, who has been an SL merchant for many years. Listed in the SL Marketplace as Orange Nova Avatars, he’s now finding far more…
Ask Philip Rosedale Anything on Reddit Today from 11am-2pm PT

February 22, 2021

UPDATE, 2/23: The AMA is live now here with Philip's first answer beginning, "I'll be working on virtual worlds in one form or another until I die…" Get your questions ready: Philip Rosedale, whose hair I'm relieved to see has remained excellent through the quarantine, is going on Reddit tomorrow to answer anything asked of…
SL Fashion Blogger Showcases Blackness Better Than Vogue

February 16, 2021

Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting ByteDreams Slade is a blogger at Style Is a Choice who shoots such dramatic photos they are worthy to stand on their own as art. In Style #172, she shows how beautifully a true artist can display the beauty of darker skin…
Top 7 Posts Last Week Including: Challenges of Unreal’s MetaHuman in VR, and Teaching 150 Quarantined Students in a Virtual World Instead of Zoom

February 15, 2021

Survey: Would You Pay $5/Month For A Special New World Notes Newsletter? The Black Dragon SL Viewer Has A New Update So Watch This Photography & In-Game Poser Tutorial For Adjusting Your Avatar's 130+ Bones Bored With Zoom, Professor Teaches Computer Programming In A Virtual World, And Streams It To Her Twitch — Here's Her…

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Watch: YouTube Capture of SL’s New Homepage Video, With Music & Voiceover from YouTuber Isabelle Cheren

Play Scavengers, Ambitious Sandbox Game With a Senior Designer Who Got His Start Creating Shooters in Second Life

Sannyのおすすめバーチャルワールドニュース : 2021年4月 Sanny Reports For Virtual Japan

Watch Life 2.0, the Best Documentary on Second Life Now Available on Netflix — And My Interview With the Director Below

Sannyのおすすめバーチャルワールドニュース : 2021年3月 Sanny Reports for Virtual Japan

Don’t Underestimate ROBLOX Creation Tools — They’ve Created Hit Games As Popular As Top Games on Steam (Comment of the Week #2)