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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Loading… As you likely saw yesterday, Facebook inevitably announced plans to test VR ads in Quest apps: We’re starting a small test of in-headset ads with a few developers in the coming weeks. We want to help developers generate revenue and help people find great experiences at better prices—this is a part of how we’ll…
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Update, 6/9: This is the Substrate fork on Github that Frooxius created for this Minecraft import. Here's more info on how Frooxius, lead developer of the crowd-funded social VR project NeosVR, seemingly reverse engineered a version of Minecraft and imported it into his world: He didn't actually reverse engineer a version of Minecraft. "It's using a Substrate…
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Hopefully I'll hear back soon from Frooxius, lead developer of the crowd-funded social VR project NeosVR, but apparently, he's figured out how to reverse engineer a version of Minecraft and import it into his world. (And apparently did so as a three day project.) My go-to VR expert Adeon speculates that Frooxius may be parsing…
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The dogs in Happy Hill Dog Park are waiting for you to come play! Available now on #VRChat for both PC and Quest. Environment and animation design by @jendaviswilson , AI & logic by @CyanLaser . pic.twitter.com/mpJ87FXXx7 — Studio CyFi (@StudioCyfi) May 19, 2021 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Click here to visit Happy Hill Dog Park in VRChat,…
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In response to my post on VRChat's impressive creative community, a Rec Room creator recently sent me this strong case for their own platform of choice, and included the videos featuring great user-created contest in Rec Room seen here. "There is amazing work and talent there, and it was all built in game. ALL of…
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Rec Room recently reported over 1 million monthly users and a higher peak concurrency than VRChat. But when it comes to the two leading social VR worlds, VRChat seems to have a crucial edge: A far more active and ambitious creative community. That statement is my personal estimation, to be sure. And to be fair,…
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Original chart via UploadVR, annotated with Quest 2 sales estimates by me Facebook’s latest earnings report is once again playing the coy game of referring to Oculus device and software sales “as non-advertising revenue” without giving any specifics, so we must continue the coyly make install base estimates. And based on some rough but reasonable…
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If I'm describing this video accurately, it's mind-boggling: VRChat YouTuber Mitama Sakumaru (known as "390_JUGGLER" in VRC) is juggling in real life — but the objects he's juggling only exist in VRChat. Yes: The juggled objects in VRChat are physics-enabled and respond to his real life juggling movement via the motion tracking of his VR…
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Reader David Cheney recently tried out these detailed instructions for running Second Life on an Oculus Quest 2 via Firestorm ("This is a lot of fun and works pretty well!"), and added some further tips in Comments: On my cabled Quest 2 I had to take a couple of steps I found at the VR Firestorm…
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While VRChat attracts quite a lot of attention thanks to its smart and inventive community, and Rec Room for its high usage numbers and valuation ($1.25 billion, the Wall Street Journal just reported), both of those heavily-funded social VR platforms still seem to be over-shadowed on the feature and UX front by Neos VR, a…
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