Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Weekly Recap
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Second Life Community Rallies To Help Ukraine-Based Creators On Platform Watch: Meta's Voice-Activated Builder Bot Reeks Of The Sci-Fi UI Fallacy Second Life Finally Adds Game-Like Achievement Scores — And E-Mails Them To Users! ROBLOX's Weekend Downtime Caused Rec Room Usage To Spike Listen: Parmy Olson & Me On Bloomberg Spaces Chatting About The Metaverse…
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What Meta's 300,000 Horizon Users Means For The Metaverse Watch: Second Life Roleplayer Made This Jaw-Dropping Machinima Tribute To A World Of Warcraft Tavern — Here's How VRChat Hires Community Member Who Created Popular Scripting Compiler — UdonSharp Planned To Become Part Of Official SDK Super Bowl FOMO Crypto App Ad With Larry David Leads…
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Swimbot NFTs Evolve & Compete With Each Other Off-Chain — New Project From Virtual World/Artificial Life Pioneer Jeffrey Ventrella Dear Media, Evangelists, Critics: Yes, There Is An Official Definition Of The Metaverse & It Already Exists (Basically) EXCLUSIVE: Virtual World Vet Warned Meta About Avatar Harassment In The Metaverse Years Ago — But Long-Known Best…
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Can Philip Fix Second Life's Complex Avatar System? Meta's Metaverse Platform Horizon Worlds Likely Trails Far Behind VRChat & Rec Room In Usage On Its Own Oculus App Store Sannyのおすすめバーチャルワールドニュース : 2022年1月 Sanny Reports For Virtual Japan It Sure Looks Like The Quest 2 Install Base Is Now About 9.4M — Just Under Zuckerberg's 10M+…
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Survey Results: With Philip Rosedale's Return, New World Notes Readers Overwhelmingly Optimistic On Future Of Second Life & The Metaverse Metaverse Platform Infographic: Monthly Active Users Now Nearly Half A Billion People (But Probably Many More) Second Life Blogger Reviews Virtual Hotels – Yes They Exist & Some Charge Over $12/USD A Night! Shock Stat:…
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Listen: Philip Rosedale & I Talk About Transforming The Future Of Second Life & Making A More Humane Metaverse ROBLOX Website Usage Has Been Flat Since Its Spring 2021 IPO Microsoft Buys Least Metaverse-Friendly Game Company To Boost Its Metaverse Plans
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BREAKING: Philip Rosedale Re-Joins Second Life As Strategic Advisor To Grow It Into Inclusive Metaverse Competing With Big Tech's "Ad-Driven Behavior Modification" Metaverse Should Second Life Have An Export / Licensing Option So Creators Can Sell Their Massive Trove Of Content To Other Metaverse Platforms? Watch: Metaverse Experiment Creates "Portals" From NeosVR To Anyland To…
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New World Notes has always been focused foremost on the cultural component of virtual worlds, or what we breezily now call the Metaverse, telling stories of the people who create, grow, and evolve in them. (For better and sometimes worse.) From that perspective, here's my very favorite stories from 2021: ROBLOX YouTuber & Taiwan Supporter…
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Here's ten New World Notes posts from 2021 highlighting noteworthy trends, features, controversies, or challenges that we're very likely to see come cropping up in various forms in 2022 and for that matter in years to come: ROBLOX Reportedly Pressures Journalist Covering Platform's In-Game Market "In Which Children Are Encouraged To Gamble Real Money" (December…
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As with most years, the most shared and read New World Notes posts of 2021 tell you a lot about the current state of the Metaverse, along with Second Life and its successors’ place within it: BREAKING: Sansar, Would-Be Second Life Successor & Metaverse Platform, Is Offline — Staff Reportedly Furloughed Since September Neal Stephenson:…
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