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: Weekly Recap
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How much will AI transform culture? Part 1, music and movies How much will AI transform culture? Part 2, metaverse platforms These 5 Excellent Books Helped Inspire My Writing Of Making A Metaverse That Matters
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How much will AI transform culture? Part 1, music and movies How much will AI transform culture? Part 2, metaverse platforms These 5 Excellent Books Helped Inspire My Writing Of Making A Metaverse That Matters
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The Gnome Is Home: Helium-Headed YouTuber Soda Gnome Wackily Returns To Second Life Crystal Frost Update: Playable Build Of SL / OpenSim Viewer On Unity Targets Spring 2024, Needs More Patreon Backers To Speed Progress Is It Ethical For Artists To Use Generative AI In Their Work? This Creator Believes So — See Her Images…
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Watch: Second Life Featured In Secret Meeting In Apple TV's Morning Show! With Fortnite OG Attracting 45M Daily Players, Here's A Look At The Platform's Continued Strength As A Metaverse Platform — And Advice For Brands Interested In Creating Fortnite Experiences New Gamer Survey Data Helps Answer An Ongoing Mystery: Why Are There So Few…
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Above: PBR-enabled content from TS-Creations Get My Autograph Plate For Making A Metaverse That Matters — Here's How! Second Life Finally Gets Physically Based Rendering — Latest Update To Modernize The OG Metaverse Platform There's A Whole Huge Flickr Group Photographing Virtual Crows In Second Life — Here's Some Amazing Examples! UPDATE: The Verge Now…
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Hilarious New Halloween-Themed Second Life Items From Bad Unicorn: Flyable UFOs With Real Pew-Pew-Pew Action & A Working Guillotine! Meta Bragged AI Would Improve Quest 3 Tracking. But Many Quest 3 Owners Are Complaining Hit Games Are Unplayable Due To Poor Tracking. Watch: VRChat Deaf Community Creates New Dialect Of Sign Language To Accommodate Limited…
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The Nightmarishly Infinite Library Of Babel Has Haunted People For Decades. Now Borges' Impossible Vision Exists In VRChat. Roblox Staff Can't Work Remotely — But VRChat & Linden Lab Personnel Mostly Do Scary Screenshots Of Witherwood Thicket, A Perfect Place For SL Halloween How Second Life's "Broadly Uncanny" Avatars Hurt New User Retention
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Second Life's Human Avatars Have Become Amazingly Ultra-Realistic Over The Years — Even If That Hasn't Grown The User Base At All. Unity's New CEO "Needs To Literally Unify Unity!" — How The Top 3D Engine Became So Broken, And What The Company Must Do To Recover, Post-Riccitiello (Guest Post By Adam Frisby) Listen: Making…
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Open Today On Steam: Resonite, A Fully Crowdfunded Metaverse Platform From Former Lead Dev Of Neos Get Potted: Virtual Plant-Growing Game In Second Life So Popular, 2000 Regularly Play Today's Second Life Flickr Pick: Una Zano Uses Depth Of Field To Make Screenshot Looks Like Extraordinary Real Life Photos Metaverse Platform Market Passes 600 Million…
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Emojis Finally Coming To Official Second Life Viewer Thanks To Community Developer As Epic Lays Off Employees In Metaverse Transition, Nearly 400 Community Creators Earning $100K+/Year From Fortnite Creative. Over 60 Earn Millions. Meta's Quest 3 Shifts Focus From VR To Tag After Apple's Mixed Reality Vision — Despite Little Evidence Of Mass Consumer Interest…