Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
recent posts
- 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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Category: Video
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Meela Vanderbuilt is one of Second Life's top YouTubers and she recently expanded her fun, chatty, seriously glamorous brand of videos into the world of GTA Online roleplay. (Watch above.) Here's her expert take on the similarities and differences between roleplay in GTA versus SL: "The general concept is the same. GTA is more focused…
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For our Thanksgiving week New World Video, Isabelle Cheren and I chat about Second Life’s new VAT-free plan, how to avatar-ize yourself in Midjourney, and play a game of SL Flickr Cliche Bingo! (And get way too deep discussing male avatar, um, attachments.) Plus viewer questions on metaverse addiction, enjoying Second Life with little L$,…
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Watch above and please Like & Subscribe! Topics we cover include: Premium Plus members can purchase up to one Homestead on their account. But is that a good deal? Isabelle explores Dual Universe and shares video! What’s up with corporations in the metaverse? Will Meta failing fail us all? Plus a reader question from Kitty…
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New video from Isabelle and me! Please like, subscribe, and leave comments/suggestions/complaints/etc. below. And yes, I'm still not happy with the quality of my voice recording. (Not sure why, we recorded the audio via Google.) Topics we discuss include: IRL update from Isabelle! Size of the metaverse Roblox vs. SL creator revenue The Taylor Swift…
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As teased back in August, here's S.Y.N.C., a short feature movie shot entirely in VRChat. Written, directed, edited, and performed by "Legend50210" (let's call him Legend for short), it's a fun sci-fi actioner with slick production values and impressive fight choreography — even more impressive, when you realize Legend plays all the characters. "The loops…
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I just had the most fascinating if totally left field press interview about music in the Metaverse. Which makes this as good a time as any to share this video, depicting one of the more innovative and ambitious metaverse-based music performances I've seen in awhile: Tia Rungray (IRL Japanese musician Takayuki Noami) performing hypnotically ambient…
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New video from Isabelle and me! Please like, subscribe, and leave comments/suggestions/complaints/etc. below. Here's some links to topics we touch on: Steller’s beanstalk The War of the Jessie Wall Dual Universe launches Cory Doctorow autographs his book in SL Midjourney meets mesh Isabelle's high altitude video And don't miss my L$10,000 challenge! Info below:
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