Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: VRChat
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What you’re looking at above may be the first sign of a larger trend: This furry avatar for VRChat is now selling on Gumroad for $40. That’s not surprising, given VRChat’s fast-growing userbase. What is perhaps surprising is that the very same avatar is selling in Second Life for a tenth of the price. 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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One last look back at 2020 before it finally rots away like the leprous corpse it is, reviewing my predictions for the year I made on December 31, 2019: Magic Leap will fold. Not exactly, but there were massive layoffs last April, impelled in great part by metaverse hubris, but the company has since pivoted…
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Results from last week's not-super-scientific-but-still interesting survey on VRChat's new monthly/yearly paid subscription option. With 175 responses (a solid sample for this site), well over one-third say they will pay to subscribe. That is a minority response, but for a free-to-play virtual world, it's a relatively impressive response. As a point of comparison, Second Life…
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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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Attention AOC and other Among Us fans: There's a new community-fan, playable version of the hit deception and backstabbing game in VRChat: Click here to play. (No, not the horror-themed fan version of Among Us I mentioned the other week, that's another project still in development.) While this VRChat version of Among Us is faithful…
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VRChat content creator "Markcreator" (last seen on New World Notes showing off this impressive VRChat-based tribute to Minecraft he built) is now selling buttons for VRChat for USD $12.50. This might not seem like news in itself — unless you're specifically in the market for VRChat-based buttons — except that it's another indicator of a…
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Yes, what you're looking at above is Minecraft-style group building in VRChat. The insanely cool brainchild of "Markcreator" (his VRChat account name), it's now available to play for yourself: Click on his Twitter here for more details and the VRChat teleport link. It's actually dubbed "Udon Minecraft", with "Udon" being VRChat's scripting language, and to…
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VRChat's creative community continues to impress. This is the trailer to a new survival horror game in VRChat that was co-developed by Lakuza, who also created a VRChat game with bullet-time effects earlier this year. “It’s a 5-6 hour horror game essentially and we've modelled everything from scratch, including the music,” he tells me. While…
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We haven't checked in lately with Syrmor, VRChat's beloved embedded journalist and videographer — the Errol Morris of VRChat, basically — so here's a video he just uploaded, an in-depth interview with a slightly drunken hamster which smells like mayonnaise. (Actually Meowriza, a famous trans bodybuilder and cosplayer in real life.) "I took a break…
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