Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
Making a Metaverse That Matters
Contact me — links below!
recent posts
- Warning: LLMs Able to De-Anonymize User Accounts on Reddit, Hacker News & Other “Pseudonymous” Platforms; Report Co-Author Expands, Advises
- Want to Go On-Together? A New Virtual World for Real Life Coworking
- All the World’s Avatars (1 Billion & Counting)
- Gamers Overwhelmingly Hate Gen AI in Games, Major Industry Report Finds — Here’s Why!
- Why Do Gamers Generally Prefer Fantasy Virtual Worlds Over Sci-Fi MMOs?
about
Category: Uncategorized
-
Bumped up for weekend watching and discussions. Originally published on my Patreon SL YouTuber Prisqua Newall and Hari Sutherland (author of Second Life's first coffee table book) recently invited me to have this fun debate (watch above!) about ideas for growing the user base of our favorite virtual world. We touch on a number of…
-
Good conversation on the post about making realistic mesh humans SL's main default avatar type. Reflecting on their own experience, Ghost Bird writes: This drove me away from SL. The focus on photorealistic bodies turned the culture into a gross mirror of exactly what should be left in RL: misogyny, racism, classism, sexualisation and, ironically,…
-
Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Faringdon is, I believe, a cat. Most of their Flickr images (and their Flickr profile pic) are of a Siamese pic in Second Life, exploring and photographing themselves in the virtual world. Everyone knows cats love books, even on a Kindle. Though,…
-
Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Tooku Fadlan shot this amazing pic at Luane’s World, a popular photo destination. [SLurl teleport link here] The sunshine beating down on the meadow suggests a hot summer day. The grass is bright green and the sky is blue and all is…
-
I loved featuring four favorite artists on Primfeed recently. So much so, here's seven more people who post spectacular images to the Second Life-centric social media platform. Much thanks to Ghost Harris and Myrdin Sommer for making many recommendations for us to peruse and select from. Starting above with Natus Janus, whose powerful black and…
-
Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Zlaggy is a Second Life microblogger on Flickr. She is an exciting blogger because she has a unique and creative fashionista. None of her looks are like anybody else and that’s what I most admire. Her photos are excellent and minimalist, just…
-
In a cultural milestone possibly relevant only to me, acclaimed movie critic Anthony Lane just reviewed Grand Theft Hamlet, a documentary shot completely in GTA Online, in The New Yorker. (Paywalled online only at the moment, alas, but I just blogged about the movie here.) I'm fairly sure this is the first time The New…
-
Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Nadej Dae’s picture feels like a hallucination. “On ferme les yeux des morts avec douceur c'est aussi avec douceur qu'il faut ouvrir les yeux des vivants,” Google translate tells me this means “We close the eyes of the dead gently; it is…
-
Originally published on my Patreon here Just before Linden Lab test launched "Project Zero", its code name for streaming Second Life on a browser, I had a deep dive conversation with CTO Philip Rosedale on how Zero fits into the overall strategy of growing the SL user base. One point he mentions (that I initially…
-
Just to put my 2025 predictions in digital concrete: Apple won't announce Vision Pro 2 this year. This one feels inevitable with sales still slow and production of Vision Pro 1 already winding down. Thanks to the launch of Linden Lab's mobile app and cloud streaming, Second Life increases peak concurrent users by at least…
