From Linden Lab's Sale & Oculus' Strategy Tax, To Black Lives Matter & Trump Billboards In Second Life — 2020'S Most Popular New World Notes Posts From Virtual Reality Changing Our Dreams To COVID Changing Our Virtual World — My Top 10 Favorite New World Notes Posts From 2020 Cajsa's Choices: My 5 Favorite Second…

2020 has been so exhausting that I'm too exhausted to write about all the reasons why 2020 was so exhausting. But through it all, being able to connect with you here has been a constant source of renewal. Here's my own favorite New World Notes posts from this year — stories I loved most because…

Based on media coverage, web traffic, and social media shares/engagement, here's New World Notes most popular posts of the year, which includes some of the most important milestones in virtual world/VR news, along with some noteworthy overlaps with events in the real world:  January: Prince Harry & Meghan Markle Spend First Week Of Independence Looking…

Second Life's Amazon Cloud Migration Helps Make SL's Annual Snowball Fight Actually Look Fun Study: Virtual Reality Seems To Help Prime People To Have Lucid Dreams Fun Second Life User Tutorial By Top Gaming YouTuber Recommends Community-Made Firestorm & Black Dragon Viewers Over Official Software Rec Room Passes 10,000 In Peak Daily Concurrency Across All…

As EU & US Regulators Investigate Facebook, VR Evangelist Robert Scoble Warns That Oculus May Not Survive Philip Rosedale Offers To API License High Fidelity's 3D Spatial Audio To Zoom & Other Online Conferencing Services Caltech Launches Virtual World Campus In SL As Pandemic-Era Social Space Core Launches Attack On Roblox's 25/75 Revenue Split For…

Katharine Comes Back: Elite Silicon Valley Engineer Who Got Her Start As A Teen In Second Life Says What She Saw When She Revisited The Virtual World Travis Scott Likely Sold Some $10 Million In Virtual Content From Fortnite Virtual World Simulation Of COVID Infection Significantly Improves Student Awareness Of Social Distancing SL Mesh Demos…

Last Chance To See A Collection Of Prim Sculptures Of Great SL Artists Of The Last 15 Years VRChat Survey: Over 1 In 3 Say They'll Pay For A Premium Subscription Does The SL Community Care Enough To Clamor For Well-Optimized Mesh?  

New Black Dragon Feature Shows Your Much Lag Your Second Life Mesh Avatar Is Causing (Likely A Lot) VRChat User Survey: Will You Buy The New Plus Subscription? Roblox's Jaw-Dropping IPO Filing: 31 Million+ Daily Users, $589M+ In 2020 Revenue, Most From Mobile; User Creators Earned $209M+, Up 3X From 2019 Acclaimed VR Game Developer…

Looking For Lumiya, The Android App For SL? It's Still Available On SlideME Seraphim Secrets: How A Second Life Fashion Blog Earned 60 Million+ Views NeosVR Makes User-To-User File Sharing An Immersive Social VR Experience Being Einstein In VR Can Raise Your Actual IQ, And Other Fascinating Examples Of How Avatars Change Who We Are…

Why Wait For 2020 Election Results On The Web When You Can Watch Them In A Virtual World? VRChat Surpasses Peak Hype Concurrency Of 20,000, About Half Using VR Headsets — But Only 5,000 Logging In Via Facebook-Connected Oculus Quest Devices Trump Billboard In Second Life Immediately Surrounded By Communist Party HQ, Statue Of Liberty…