Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Originally posted on my Patreon This machinima by the inimitable Teal Aurelia (read my profile of her ) was created as a fun way of introducing the long-awaited video option on Primfeed, the social media platform for Second Life users. (Short, lower-res clips for free users, up to 10 minutes on 720p for paying subscribers.) Primfeed was…
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Casja's column on the great SL photographers on Flickr is being moved to tomorrow, so it's a perfect time to feature some creative accounts on Primfeed, the new Second Life-centric social network. After we put out a call in search of Primfeed talent last week, Graeme Fairelander gave us a glorious list. Here's four of…
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There's a huge raft of new features/options to Equimake (a proud NWN partner!), the web-based, multi-user 3D creation platform for learners and creators: Embed Equimake worlds on the web. Compatible with WordPress, Wix, and most blog services, including New World Notes. (Click above to demo!) Social sharing. Instantly share a world link to X/Twitter, Reddit,…
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Equimake (a proud NWN partner!) is a web-based, multi-user 3D creation platform that was partly inspired by Making a Metaverse That Matters and designed to be a tool for creators in worlds like Second Life. I've recently been discussing ways Equimake might best work for Second Life creators with founder/lead developer Alex, and we landed…
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Here's a valuable directory of XR programs offered by universities and colleges being compiled by the Virtual Worlds Museum (a proud sponsoring media partner to this blog). Definitely worth sharing for people planning to study the topic in school, and for finding out about programs near you: Our goal is to provide a valuable resource…
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Here's a new demo video of Equimake, the new indie platform which enables live, multi-user collaborative 3D building on the web (and a proud sponsoring NWN partner). Lead developer Alex and I do some real-time building and editing together while going over the platform's features. Like I say in the video, it kinda evokes the…
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Update: Marketplace listing and description for EEP settings has been updated below! Elie recently posted gorgeously grungy photos like these to his Twitter and the lighting was so moodily perfect, I first thought they might be photos from his real life apartment. But no, this is his skybox in Second Life, shot with Firestorm and…
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Most active sims in Second Life as of 1:30pm PT BonnieBots is a new website tracking genuine Second Life activity, and the homepage is an incredibly useful guide for finding SL sims with real, active users — as opposed to traffic bots used by many sim owners to artificially appear popular. "The biggest complaint we…
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わー。これは、楽しい(*´▽｀*)#SecondLife #sljp #Dinkieチャレンジ https://t.co/PwysGxa5nG pic.twitter.com/D3uDiAlA33 — Sanny Yoshikawa🌻🌻🌻 (@sannysquirrel) May 10, 2022 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Classic Frame is a fun image converter that our Japanese correspondent Sanny Yoshikawa was playing with recently (above), and while it was designed to turn real life photos into classic paintings (frame and all), yep, it also works just as well with…
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/SecondLife, the largest SL-related subreddit, recently grew past 10,000 subscribers. Over the years (it had only 2,000 subscribers back in 2015), it's evolved into a solid go-to hug for interesting and informative SL/virtual world-related content and conversation. Since it's on Reddit, the participants tend to skews towards SL veterans, especially developers and scripters, and unlike…
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