Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: VRChat
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Writing about Udon Tycoon in VRChat last week, it occurred to me that I haven't covered a Second Life-based project of similar ambition and scope in a long time. (Beautiful sims, to be sure, we got that covered, along with light roleplay game experiences in SL.) But Udon Tycoon has user-created, physics-enabled, save-able coaster building…
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UdonTycoon is a new VRChat experience [search “Udon Tycoon” to play] that’s easily the most amazing game I’ve seen created on the platform. (And I’ve seen some amazing ones.) Basically a mash-up of Roller Coaster Tycoon but in VR and in a multi-user virtual world, it includes a user-controlled toolkit that enables players to create…
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Above: One of nearly 1,000 VRChat-tagged items being sold on Gumroad UPDATE, 9/29: There are over 33,000 items for sale on Booth, a Japan-based content selling platform like Gumroad. Hat tip: A snarky anonymous reader who's cued me to update my estimate of people who make money from VRChat. Conservatively estimated, that's over 650 individual…
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"Do you want to live in the Metaeverse all of the time? Little bit of Metaverse all of the time?" This is a pretty brilliant VRChat-themed parody of Bo Burnham’s very brilliant “Welcome to the Internet”, created and performed by YouTuber TFMJonny, who tosses the original lyrics into the Internet content vortex of the Metaverse,…
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Kitchen Versus Kitchen is a zany new world game in VRChat (click here to play) from a mysterious developer known only as Jar. Her hit VRChat worlds are so popular, they account for roughly 1 in 10 of the virtual world's total user activity, and are more popular than most VR games made by established…
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"I think of this whole disability as one joke that God put on me… I don't think I would be the person I am now without this disability. It's helped my perspective on the world." Here's the latest interview from Syrmor, the Toronto-based embedded reporter in VRChat, in a characteristically surreal and zany yet but…
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My latest VRChat world is working exactly the way I wanted it to. Ha ha ha! pic.twitter.com/9IKBZvge8y — coopertom (@thecoopertom) August 12, 2021 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js From Coopertom, the brilliant but deranged mind who gave us Four Seasons Total Landscaping in VRChat, comes a new VRChat world that's a rite of passage for any user-created virtual world:…
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Here's the key results of my VRChat user survey with beloved VRC reporter Syrmor, primarily drawn from subscribers of his YouTube channel and my virtual world blog New World Notes. While it's not wholly scientific and has a relatively small sample size of 165 respondents, it is (I believe!) the first public survey of the…
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Here's the latest clever hack for VRChat: An Xbox One Kinect connected to the virtual world, so the user's real life movement is tracked and mapped onto their avatar. In this video above, VRCer "Zotteke" is using a Quest 2 to log into VRChat while dancing in front of a Kinect; Zotteke's furry avatar does…
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Acclaimed VRChat reporter Syrmor is back after a short hiatus with a moving new avatar interview (watch above)… which is a good time to re-up this VRChat user survey that we're conducting together. Take below (use a desktop/laptop for best results) and include your VRChat name if you'd like your opinions to be quoted! Loading…
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