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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Category: Virtual Reality
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Nice upcoming integration for Roblox users who also happen to own a Meta Quest: Roblox, one of the largest 3D immersive platforms, will soon be available on Meta Quest, the leading VR headset. Roblox on Meta Quest is available for any user 13 and older. This opens up another opportunity for developers to create and…
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Just had a great conversation on Kent Bye's excellent Voice of VR podcast (stream above) around Making a Metaverse That Matters, and since Kent is an expert on the topic, we get into a super deep dive. Here's some highlights, including our debate around Meta not doing any research (far as I can tell) into…
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At right: Video from Apple's WWDC 2023 developer page After some tantalizing hints on Monday, I can confirm that Apple is indeed working directly with leading metaverse platform Rec Room on being a full VR application for Vision Pro. You can see for yourself by going to this WWDC 2023 developer page, where Apple devs…
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Zuck: We spent tens of billions of dollars trying to turn Quest 2 into a mass market product, even buying a literal Super Bowl ad, but it still hasn’t sold more than 20 million units. What now? Boz: Thinner and weirder and more expensive headsets! Yes that’s literally what they did:
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https://t.co/TVYLxiTQTZ pic.twitter.com/KcbXk2fmu9 — Ian Hamilton (@hmltn) May 23, 2023 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Apple is widely expected to finally reveal its long-awaited, much-rumored XR headset at this year's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, starting this June 5 — even moreso because for the first time, Ian Hamilton, long time XR industry reporter at UploadVR (and .gif mood master), was…
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After 9 years of operation, VRChat is finally — and very carefully — rolling out its user creator economy: First, when we say Closed Beta, we really mean it – we only intend on inviting in 10 – 20 creators at first. Up until now, we’ve been testing these systems internally, but before releasing them…
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I definitely don't want to get into the habit of dunking on seriously questionable Insider articles but, well, here we go again: The original designer of Meta's VR offering, Oculus, says Apple's much-rumored rival metaverse headset [!!!] is "so good." Palmer Luckey, a billionaire who cofounded Oculus VR in 2012 and now leads defense-tech startup Anduril, made…
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Lost in all of last week's excitement over Meta's latest (and surprisingly good) first quarter 2023 financial report, followed by the controversy over whether it's given up on the Metaverse, is this pretty surprising revelation: Meta's frontline VR device, the Quest 2, still has not reached an install base of 20 million. (From all available…
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In case you missed it amid last week's hoopla over Linden Lab's announcement that they are (finally) developing a native mobile for Second Life built on Unity, there already is a user-run project to bring Second Life to Unity. It's called Crystal Frost, and it's still going full-guns. pai "It's not going to change," as…
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Meta's Q4 2022 earnings report was earlier this week, with revenue from Reality Labs, its XR/metaverse division, bringing in $727 million — down from $877 million in Q4 2021. So now it's time to play everyone's favorite guesstimating game: How many Quest 2's were sold, and what's the total install base? Assuming that $727M is…
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