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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😭😭😭😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/HrsikjnK1P — Aisha Saeed (@aishacs) November 7, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Love this Twitter thread from author Aisha Saeed on the day the press began calling the 2020 Presidential race. While many took to the streets to celebrate, her kids (like a lot of others) took to their favorite virtual world to celebrate. As it happens,…
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Click here to teleport to the 2020 Election Simulator in Second Life, which as the name suggests, is tracking the 2020 Presidential election in real time. And because there's a good chance that you're already online, obsessively checking Twitter or 538 for election results, why not at least do it with a talking squirrel or…
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Great catch from Adeon — over two years after VRChat saw 20,000+ concurrent users, which many considered a Ugandan Knuckles (don't ask) meme/streamer-driven fluke, the virtual world just surpassed those usage numbers: [W]ith more users joining VRChat from Quest and now Quest 2, the app reached a new record of 24,000 concurrent users over the Halloween weekend,…
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On first glance you might think this decidedly creepy machinima was shot in the hit Borderlands videogame franchise, but it was actually shot in The Wastelands, the massive and long-running post-apocalyptic (and incredibly quirky) community in Second Life. (Which has a gritty look inspired in part by Borderlands.) That's because creator Jackson Redstar ran it…
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Above: Male test subject in VR given the option to "shock" female avatar I recently told you about the VR-based recreation of Milgram’s infamous shock experiment, in which test subjects became traumatized, even knowing that the victim of their shocks was only an avatar. In an equally remarkable follow-up study, researchers recently used this VR…
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I love this virtual world variation on the "How It Started, How It's Going" meme from metaverse veteran Loki Eliot. (Click to embiggenate.) And no, that's not Habitat from the 80s at left, which was my original assumption. "[It's] 3D Construction Kit on the Amstrad CPC 6128 in 1991," Loki tells me. Its not a…
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In the latest blog post by Jim "Babbage" Purbrick, a lead developer/consultant at Oculus, Eve Online, and of course Linden Lab, he shares his thoughts on using virtual worlds for real world work. Most of the examples he gives there are from his time as a Linden — but I wouldn't be surprised if we…
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Watch: Carmen King Keeps Streaming Second Life — And Has Advice For Players Of The Sims In Giving SL A Second Chance The Metaverse We Want Isn't About Bridging 3D Content, But People Tutorial: How To Make SL Screenshots Look Like Hand-Drawn Art Slink Mesh Bodies Are Well-Optimized For Second Life Avatars — Here's How…
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"In a virtual world," SL/High Fidelity founder Philip Rosedale recently asked on Twitter, "is showing tenure (age of account) bad or good?" Which is an interesting thing to ask, and becomes even more intriguing when, after one follower wonders why Philip himself isn't answering his own question, he replies apologetically, "I don't want to dominate…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Eoleon Elcano posted “World on Fire” when wildfires were spreading throughout the West. My own state lost a million acres to fire and some 40,000 people have been evacuated. The house I rented when I first moved here was burned to the…
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