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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Heres the result https://t.co/2gH8vyYnqX — LokiEliot (@Demonkid) September 18, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js UPDATE, 2:30pm PT: Added video from today's session of peak wackiness above! Click here to teleport to the starting point at or right before 1pm PT today, when the creator and some of his pals are getting together for a match. Fall Guys,…
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Watch SL cyberpunk doyenne Ayla Pants and her pink particle-spewing pet drone (previously on NWN here) take you on a personal tour of a new scene she recently created. It's mostly cobbled together with existing assets from other vendors, but working with 1400 land impact, she's fashioned a moody cyberpunk environment rich with implicit stories. …
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Linden Lab has a blog post that almost seems like a direct response to the one New World Notes posted yesterday, wondering whether the improvements to SL sim crossings in the test grid were a temporary, unintentional side effect. But as April Linden writes, they are real, and a result of changing some code in…
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' Here's the latest update from NeosVR, an impressive indie social VR metaverse project backed by Patreon funders that we featured last year: Customizable UI, so Neos users can create a user interface that's ideal for whatever they do most in the social VR world. (For instance: Content creation, socialization, gaming, and — to judge by everyone in this…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting If you want to feel happy, just go to Gwin LeShelle’s photostream where a bright, cheerful world of kawaii pastels and brights wait to brighten your day. I love her photos because they make me feel happy. She manages to deal with…
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Here are more solid figures to back up reports that Second Life is currently experiencing a "pandemic boost" — via Tyche Shepherd, keeper of the best data on SL outside SL the actual company. "Second Life concurrency shows a significant uplift since 10th March 2020," she tells to me. "Underlying trend in Median Daily Concurrency…
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Core, the Unreal-based, user-generated project from Manticore Games (think Fortnite meets ROBLOX) is just about to launch a theme-based contest with $3500 in prizes: When creating a scene in the style of Sylvain 'Tohad' Sarrailh, you'd want to aim at having something that feels alive. To achieve this, three elements are important: colour, light, and…
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Awhile back, a graduate student at a top university told me about a Second Life-based education history project she was working on with one of her students, that had unexpectedly fallen apart. The idea was to create a 3D simulation that depicted the rise of fascism in Europe, a very important topic to be sure,…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting “Stronger Than It Seems” is a stunning “Is it life or is it Second Life?” photo that really needs her labeling it SL by telling us she took it in the virtual world location called North and adding it to SL groups…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting “Strength of Purpose” by Patrick Ireland drew me in because it gives us such a sense of serenity, something sorely needed lately. He includes a poem by PrttyBrd 2019 that is a sharp contrast to the picture’s projected beauty and serenity. The…
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