Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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- Welcome to New World Notes’ 2006-2025 Archive!
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Category: Weekly Recap
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SL's Bento avatar skeleton in Crystal Frost ChatGPT Comes To Second Life! Inside A Giant, Humanoid Bunny. Crystal Frost Update: Default Second Life Avatar Uploaded For Free Use In Unity-Based Projects & Games! Veteran MMO Designer Damion Schubert On Using ChatGPT To Help Create Virtual Worlds — And Advice On AI For Novice Game Designers…
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Richard Bartle, Legendary MMO Designer, Reviews Amazon MMO New World When Will We Get AI-Powered Virtual World NPCs? Seasoned MMO Game Designers Weigh The Possibilities & Perils Visits To Controversial Bonnie Bots Website Displaying SL User Data Drops To 26K Per Month — Likely ~5000 Unique Visitors ChatGPT Is Not Reliable In Serious Use Cases…
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ChatGPT Connected To Non-Player Characters In An MMO Generate Amazing Conversations — Even Sending One Player On A Fake Quest! Watch: VRChat Teases Official Android Mobile App Built On Quest 2 Version Watch: I'm On Yahoo Finance Talking About Defining The Metaverse & Meta's Failed Assumptions About It Second Life Creators Sell Poorly-Optimized Mesh To…
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Linden Lab Adds Bot-Blocking Tools For SL Landowners, Carefully-Worded Policy Warning SL Data Collectors; Bonnie Bots Replies With Curious Meme Second Life Still Struggling With A Crisis Of Poorly-Optimized User-Made Mesh Items — But A Pro Game Artist Has Some Solutions Here's Why March 2023 Is The Month Which Launched Metaverse 2.0 Tim Sweeney: Set…
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Fortnite Becomes Much More Of A Metaverse Platform With Unreal Editor Integration, Asset Store, Better Monetization For User Creators First Look At Life By You From Sims/Second Life Dev Rod Humble — A Simulation/Sandbox Game Of Head-Spinning Ambition Top Metaverse Creators Lobby Linden Lab To Update Second Life's "Horribly Dated" Terrain Textures New Second Life…
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Above: Screenshot from Crystal Frost's latest version Backstory On Frontlines: Roblox's Viral, AAA-Quality FPS Not A Huge Hit (Yet) Amazing Flickr Group Devoted To Taking Screenshots Looking Up From Second Life's Virtual Water Bodies! Crystal Frost, Second Life On Unity Project, Focuses On PC/VR Viewer While Linden Lab Works On Mobile Version Want To Advertise…
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Official Second Life IOS/Android Mobile App On Unity Revealed "With Joy & Trepidation", Starting With Avatars & World Display. Interview With Frontlines' Lead Creator, The Game Which Proves Roblox Is A Viable Competitor To Steam — Seriously. AI Expert Explains How ChatGPT Really Works — And Why It's Designed To Produce "The Most Mediocre Web…
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It's Here: Crystal Frost, Second Life's First Viewer Running On Unity, Available Today In Early Alpha Featuring Live Chat/IM & Water Physics Roblox Daily Active Users Grow 20% From 2021 — Average DAU Now 65M Meta's New XR Roadmap Confirms Quest 2 Install Base Under 20 Million — But Little Mention Of The Metaverse (Again)…
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BREAKING: First Test Viewer Of Crystal Frost, Unity-Based Second Life Viewer, Available For Patreon Members Starting March 3! ZEPETO User Numbers & Demographics — Plus Why It's Called "ZEPETO" These Incredibly Moody & Realistic Apartment Photos Are Actually From A Second Life Skybox Using Custom EEP Settings
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Philip Rosedale Launches New Project Using What He Learned Building A Successful Virtual World Economy To Fight Inequality In The Real World WATCH: Video Preview Of Crystal Frost, Unity-Based SL Viewer — Test Client Available In 2 Weeks! Bonnie Bots Are Basically The Chinese Gov't Spy Balloons Of Second Life ChatGPT Tries To Write Bios…
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