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 To Make Virtual World Screenshots Look Like Old World Paintings Viewfinder, Which Started As A Viral Brain-Melting Game Demo, Finally Coming To Steam & PlayStation 5 With New Features, Story These Stunning Images Inspired By Degas' Famed Ballerina Paintings Actually Started As Second Life Screenshots Unity For Second Life Project Launches Discord Featuring Live…
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Why Bonnie Bots Attract Backlash Across Second Life, While Grid Survey Bots Do Not: Tyche's Take Richard Bartle, Top Virtual World Expert, Tries Explaining Core Problems With NFT & Blockchain At A Crypto Conference. It Does Not Go Well. BREAKING: Veteran Developer Creating New Second Life Viewer… For Unity! Meta's Quest 2 Price Increase Due…
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Bonnie Bots, Explained: Team Behind Controversial Second Life Data Tracker Respond To Feedback, Also Notes: We're Hardly The Only Ones Collecting Public Avatar Data I Thought ChatGPT Was Impressive. But Then Someone Asked ChatGPT About A Topic I've Written Two Books On. We Love These Second Life Images Inspired By Photographer Herb…
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New Website Tracks Genuine Second Life Activity, Filtering Out AFK Users & Traffic Bots Dear Media: Here’s Why It’s Wrong To Illustrate Articles About The Metaverse With Pics Of People In VR This Artist Cleverly Creates Giant Cardboard Cutout Dioramas In Second Life & Shoots Completely Charming Photos In Them
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Sannyのおすすめバーチャルワールドニュース:2022年12月 Sanny Reports For Virtual Japan My Metaverse-Related Predictions For 2023, Plus Readers' Own Second Life Avatar Featured In Legendary Opera House — On The Continued Cultural Reach Of The Virtual World EXCLUSIVE: Meta Staff's Confidence In Metaverse Drops Sharply From 2021; Majority Say Zuckerberg Not Clearly Explaining What It Even Is – Blind Survey…
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Neal Stephenson Q&A, The Metaverse In Wartime, Shrek Ears — My Favorite New World Notes Posts Of 2022 Seven Second Life Blogs We Loved In 2022: The SL Hotel Inspector, Cinnamon, Beauty & Grace, Blue, Cozey In SL, Toshikya Sato & Artifex Silence Five News Stories From 2022 Likely To Be Even More Newsworthy In…
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Watch: Sharing Gifts & Predictions In New World Video's Holiday Edition! My New Metaverse Book Has A Cover & New Title — Please Pre-Order! Meta's New Vision Of The Future Doesn't Mention The Metaverse Even Once How To Improve Second Life New User Retention: Reader Recommendations These Evocative Images Look Like Bygone Photos But They're…
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Above: The procedurally-generated No Man's Sky I'm Not Leaving Twitter (Yet) But Please Follow Me On LinkedIn LOOK: These Beautiful Paintings Are Actually Second Life Screenshots Processed Though Stable Diffusion AI Metaverse Creator Finds Dances Trending On TikTok, Quickly Recreates & Sells Them To Sims 4, Second Life & IMVU Community LOOK: Breathtakingly Posed &…
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Throwback Thursday: There's An Official Iron Man Suit In Second Life & It's Fully User-Modifiable — Case Study For Current Metaverse Marketers Lensa Scraping Artists' Work Without Their Consent Into Its "AI" Images — Even The Artists' Signatures! For Wednesday, Here's Amazing Second Life Cosplay Inspired By Netflix's Wednesday Artist Uses ChatGPT AI To Create…
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LOOK: Artist Blends Real Life Photos Of Herself With Her Second Life Avatar In Midjourney To Amazing Effect GTA Online Roleplay Tips From Top Second Life YouTuber Meela Vanderbuilt! VRChat Groups Launches In Open Beta; IBM/SL Vet Andrew Sempere Helping With System Design! There's A Community Of Virtual Photographers Inspired By The Famous Haystack Of…
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