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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Category: Virtual Reality
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Google's Tilt Brush, easily among the best VR applications made so far, is now available in open source… but it comes with a hell of a qualifier from Google: As we continue to build helpful and immersive AR experiences, we want to continue supporting the artists using Tilt Brush by putting it in your hands.…
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If this new Bloomberg story is right, Apple will not be a mass market player in the VR industry for at least the next five years, and that's by Apple's own design: Apple’s typical playbook involves taking emerging consumer technology, such as music players, smartphones, tablets and smartwatches, and making it reliable and easy to…
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Impressive figures for Rec Room via Road to VR: Rec Room has seen a significant uptick in users recently, as it now reports over one million monthly active VR users on the platform… Rec Room Designer Shawn Whiting told Road to VR that given today’s news, virtual reality users are actually a relatively small percentage of overall users. “That’s…
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VRChat had some technical troubles during the world's New Year celebrations last week, but it was one of those catastrophic success sort of things: If you’re unaware, we had a bit of an issue at probably one of the most popular times to hang out in VRChat and traditionally where we set concurrent user records…
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Fascinating study from researchers with the Donders Sleep & Memory Lab in the the Netherlands suggests that VR helps prime the user to have more lucid dreams — you know, the sensation of being conscious while in a dream, and even having some control over what happens in the dream itself. VR inherently cues a…
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Based on Steam user stats, I've assumed Rec Room trailed far behind VRChat. but that's reportedly wrong. While Rec Room is currently peaking at 1,428 concurrent users on Steam, the world's design lead, Shawn Whiting, tells me via Twitter that Valve's platform is just a small piece of Rec Room's usage pie: "Steam is our…
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Hitting Facebook at the worst possible time for the company (but they should have expected it), regulators in Germany, the European Union's most powerful member state, are now going after Oculus’ now-mandatory Facebook log-in: “In the future, the use of the new Oculus glasses requires the user to also have a Facebook account. Linking virtual…
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After basically becoming the queen of Second Life YouTubers, Ms. Carmen King reluctantly donned her dusty Vive headset –"I get insane motion sickness… [and] "normally can't last 10 minutes in VR", she says — to re-visit the social VR world of Sansar. "First time I tried," she casually notes, while getting strapped in, "I saw…
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NOTE: If you're viewing this on a mobile device you might need to tap-slide-scroll on the survey below to view and take it: Loading… After many years in free-to-play Beta and seeing impressive growth, VRChat is finally offering a paid subscription option (details here and summarized below). But are VRChat players actually interested in paying?…
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Guess if @Facebook disabled my account for no reason and there's no way to have it reviewed I won't be developing VR anymore? Good thing I haven't opened the shrink wrap on my Quest2. #VR — Nicole Lazzaro #RBG #BLM #Harris2024 💪🏾🗳🌈 🥞 (@NicoleLazzaro) November 16, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Nicole Lazzaro is an acclaimed game developer,…
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