Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: VRChat
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Via the VRChat metrics site and a highly helpful VRC source, here's the latest concurrency trends for our favorite next gen metaverse platform. If you click to embiggenate, you'll see that peak concurrency has been trending toward 120,000 in recent weeks, hitting just shy of that over the Thanksgiving weekend holiday. That's decent growth from…
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Originally posted on my Patreon Update: The game is live. Here's the world links for the PC/PC VR version, and for the Quest version. This video above could be gameplay footage from an upcoming PS4 game by a professional studio, but it's actually only available in VRChat. Bullet Time Agent is a one person labor of…
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Ghost Hunters is a new social party game in VRChat that's got a great asymmetrical twist: One player gets to be the ghost, everyone else (1-11 other players) get to be ghost hunters trying to tag the ghost before they're spooked into unconsciousness. World link here. It's the latest game by longtime community creator Jar,…
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Update, 10/23: Woke up realizing this: If VRChat's reported 10 million monthly active users are about 2.5 million people from Japan, which has a total population about 124 million… about 2 percent of the Japanese are VRChat users. Last I checked in August, Japan-based traffic to VRChat's website was second only to the US, and…
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Originally published on my Patreon You know a virtual world is compelling when its inhabitants kick against the walls of reality until they finally succeed at bursting through. Here’s five of my favorite VRChat worlds which create what’s seemingly impossible on the platform to totally rewrite the limits of our virtual experience. While I can’t…
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You know a virtual world is compelling when its inhabitants kick against the walls of reality until they finally succeed at bursting through. Join my Patreon for free to read about five of my favorite VRChat worlds and my interview with the creators, who've built what’s seemingly impossible on the platform to totally rewrite the…
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Longtime reader Martin K just shared this stunning Google Trends results, showing that interest in VRChat in Japan has hit an all-time high. SimilarWeb tells a parallel story, with Japan-based traffic to VRChat's website second only to the US, and nearly 20% of the total. (Compared to 40% of traffic from the US.) Why the…
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Last I checked in with "Markcreator" in 2020, the indie developer had somehow figured out how to recreat a Minecraft-like experience in VRChat, inevitably dubbing it VRCraft. This week, he's taken several leaps on that innovation, and is now making it possible for anyone to import their Minecraft worlds into VRCraft. (Watch above.) "One of…
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Had a busy day working on a cool new virtual world project (more on that later), so here's a good long video we can watch together (hat tip, Julian of the Virtual Worlds Museum): A close-up, first-hand look at VRChat's creator economy, and the relatively recent addition of direct monetization options for creators. I haven't…
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In brutal news for VRChat employees, 30% were laid off late yesterday — though fortunately, with generous severance packages. In a refreshingly honest email to staff, co-founder/CEO Graham Gaylor puts the blame on himself, saying he over-hired while also taking too long to add management, making it difficult for the startup to reach profitability before…
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