Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Weekly Recap
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Crystal Frost Update: Customizable Avatars For SL-On-Unity 3D Project Coming Soon! Today's SL Flickr Pick: Ninoo Vita Takes Terrific Pics Full Of Virtual Sunlight, Reflection, And Shadow BREAKING: New Second Life Mobile App Preview Shows Off Greatly Improved UI, Graphics & Avatar Rendering — Aiming For Late 2023/Early 2024 Beta Release These Amazing Images Were…
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Listen: Kent Bye & Me On Making A Metaverse That Matters For Voices Of VR VRChat's Recursive Room Is Among The Most Brain-Melting Metaverse Experiences Ever. Creator Thad Gyther Reveals How He Made It! Read Second Life's Official 20th Anniversary Magazine — Here's A Preview Of Cajsa's Moving History Of SL As Told By Lindens…
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Read An Excerpt From Making A Metaverse That Matters — And Please Consider Pre-Ordering! Someone Recreated Donald Trump's Mar-A-Lago Bathroom Hiding Stolen State Secrets In Second Life! Tutorial: How To Use Second Life's New LinksetData Feature To Create Roleplay & Quest Games (Guest Post) VRChat World Puts You In A World Within A World Within…
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Apple Vision Pro's High Price Is Not A Problem Because It's A COMPUTER, Not A Peripheral — Jeff Yang Vision Pro Developer Avi Bar-Zeev On Apple's Spatial Computing / Personas Model Vs. The Metaverse Vs. Metaverse/Avatars Vision CONFIRMED: Apple Quietly Promoting Full VR Applications On Vision Pro To Devs, Working Directly With Metaverse Platform Rec…
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As Anti-LGBT Hate Increases Across The Real World, Many Still Celebrate Pride Month In Second Life & Other Virtual Worlds Will NVIDIA's AI-Powered NPCs Make Games More Fun? This Star Wars Old Republic Designer Has Concerns Quest 3 Continues Meta's Sunk Cost Fallacy For A VR Mass Market That Does Not & Likely Cannot Exist…
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Is VRChat Already Too Late To Roll Out Its Creator Economy? A Second Life Memorial To George Floyd's Murder — And A Plea Not To "Move On" From It What UploadVR's Ian Hamilton Will Watch For At Apple's XR Reveal At Next WWDC — And What I Fear Does OpenAI Actually Prohibit ChatGPT-Powered Sexbot Avatars…
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Above: Chatting with a ChatGPT-powered NPC in a metaverse platform Here Come The Metaverse's ChatGPT-Powered Avatar Sex Bots — Whether Humanity Is Ready Or Not VRChat Finally Announces Creator Economy In Very Cautious Closed Beta The Future Of Generative AI & The Metaverse Are Inextricably Linked WATCH: Sims/Second Life Dev Rod Humble Unveils Features In…
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Above: Insider's attempted Metaverse debunking comes replete with VR headset illustration indicating Insider's editors don't actually understand the concept Does The Metaverse Really Need A Blockchain? I Debate That With Devs From Neal Stephenson's Lamina1 Metaverse-As-A-Service Startup The Insider & Ed Zitron's "Obituary" To The Metaverse Is Actually A Zombie Horde Of Embarrassing Half-Truths The…
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Will We Pay For Art Mostly Created By AI? I Consider The Question With Analysts Robert Scoble & Jeremiah Owyang We Can't Stop Staring At These Screenshots Of Second Life In Silhouette Quest 2 Install Base STILL Likely Below 20 Million, Based On Meta Financials & Inside Info Did Meta Start Talking Less About "The…
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Meta's CTO Tells Me They Haven't Walked Away From The Metaverse. Here's Why I'm Not Persuaded. Neal Stephenson's Lamina1 Publishes New Metaverse-As-A-Service White Paper — But Do Consumers Really Want Its Alternative To Walled Gardens? CPO Tony Parisi Replies Viewfinder, The Viral, Reality-Altering Unity Demo Of 2020, Finally Playable As Free Demo On Steam Watch:…
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