Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Weekly Recap
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Watch: Chatting Second Life, Metaverse News & Virtual Sex On A Steampunk Train The Community-Made Train Systems Of Second Life Are Over 15 Miles Long — Take This Map To Start Riding! Linden Lab Buys User-Made Commerce System Too Valuable To The Second Life Community To Fail Best Laptops For Second Life: Recent MacBook Air…
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"RIP Queen Elizabeth II" , shot in St Alban's Church in Alba: VRChat Tips: Five Amazing Worlds To Visit Recommended By A Top Explorer Sannyのおすすめバーチャルワールドニュース : 2022年8月 Sanny Reports For Virtual Japan London In Second Life Flooded With Mourners & Well-Wishers At News Of Queen Elizabeth's Death Best Laptops For Running Second Life: ASUS – ROG…
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Watch: I'm Chatting About SL Puppetry, Meta's Avatars, Over-Consumerization Of SL & Other Fun Topics With Isabelle Cheren! Four Problems With The “AI Wins An Art Competition” Story — And Insights From Acclaimed Metaverse Artist Jeff "AM Radio" Berg When Second Life Goes Offline, Someone Wears Shrek Ears. Behind The Scenes At Linden Lab With…
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Midjourney Tips: How To Get The Best Results From The AI Image Generator Watch: SL Machinima With Amazing Framerate & High Quality Visuals — Here's How Isabelle Cheren Made It! Watch: Machinima Shot In VRChat Features Amazing Fight Scenes Using A Full Body VR Rig In A Surprising Way The Mystery Of Mark’s Avatar Isn’t…
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No, Virtual Reality Is Not In Its "Early Days" (Comment Of The Week) Mobile phones in the 80s were incredibly expensive and bulky, the connectivity was sporadic and low quality, but their fundamental utility for communicating with anyone by phone nearly anywhere you carried one was immediately and universally obvious. This use case was so…
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Survey: Will You Pay $15-50 To Change Your Second Life Account Name? Second Life For Web / Mobile Indefinitely Delayed Again (Again) What The Sandbox & Snoop Dogg Could Learn From Second Life This Creator Illustrates Her Graphic Fantasy Story With SL Avatar Photos Stunning SL Life Avatar Portraits Created To Look Like Classic Hollywood…
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Listen: I Talk About Metaverse Art, AM Radio & Cao Fei For ArtNet's Podcast Exclusive: Upland Real Estate Game Quietly Becoming An Immersive Metaverse Platform With Nearly 300K NFT Owners Watch: VRChat's Horizon Adjust Feature Used To Recreate David Bowie's Classic Escher Maze Scene From Labyrinth! Roblox Hiring Web3 Senior Engineer To Put Virtual World…
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Above: Most popular games in the Quest store as of today I spent much of last week pondering the mystery of why Meta hasn't announced that the Quest 2 has crossed a 10 million unit install base (as it almost certainly has by now, based on earnings reports). Reader Zack makes an even better point:…
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Open Now: LynchLand, A Whole Second Life Sim Devoted To The Art & Characters Of David Lynch Quest 2 Install Base Must Have Passed Zuckerberg's 10 Million Target By Now – So Why No Meta Announcement? Incredible Second Life Fan Tributes To Music Videos By J-Hope Of BTS Steam Protest Against VRChat's Mod Ban So…
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Matthew Ball Interview: The Metaverse Author On Government Regulation, Advice For Beginners Getting Started & Second Life's Importance To Its Future (Part 2 Of 2) Linden Lab Bringing Back Second Life Cloud Streaming For The Web? Matthew Ball Interview: The Metaverse Author On Mainstream Awareness, Negative Implications, NFTs & Blockchain — And An Exciting New…
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