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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- Top Five Posts Including: Huge Rec Room Layoff & Meta Boots Neal Stephenson Off Facebook (Briefly)
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Category: Weekly Recap
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Everwinter Unveiled: New Cyberpunk City MMO in Second Life with AI Companion, Deep Story Building, Launches Tomorrow Second Life's Gen AI Controversy Leads to Drama Over Banning of AI-Altered Images on Primfeed — And This Primfeed Survey Cajsa's Choices: Morgan Talbot Creates Story-Rich Adventure Tableaus in Second Life, Then Writes Evocative Stories to Accompany Them…
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This YouTube Creator Shoots Uniquely Beautiful Second Life Vibe Machinima — and Has a Uniquely Powerful Reason for Doing So Will Second Life Users Need to Take a Voight-Kampff Test? Philip Rosedale Promises Town Hall on Controversial Uses of A.I. in Second Life Here’s Why I Don’t Want My Book About the Metaverse Fed Into…
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As Primfeed Adds Video Upload Option, Here's Some Pretty Impressive Stats for the Social Media Platform for SLers SLua: Why Roblox Creators Should Also Look Into Second Life's New Scripting Language Firestorm Streaming Survey Results: Most Aren't Interested… Unless It's Free. How Feedback Loops & Interest Algorithms Hurt Metaverse Platforms Is This List of Sunsetted…
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Anti-AI Backlash in Second Life is Out of Control (Comment of the Week) Linden Lab Hiring Director of Strategic Insights to Help Grow Second Life, Identify Features / Products SLers Actually Use What Went Wrong With Horizon Worlds? Former Meta Devs Share Surprising Insights — And a Solution to Still Save It Watch: Upcoming Firestorm…
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Seven Spectacular Second Life Artists on Primfeed to Follow The Official Star Trek Experience in Second Life Was Cancelled Long Ago, But SL's Cosplay Community Has Lived Long & Prospered Without It Since Oscar-winning Flow Was Made on a Low Budget in Blender, Does Hollywood Even Need Gen AI? Nyric is an Upcoming Virtual World…
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Brad Oberwager Explains Why Linden Lab Promoted Second Life With Stock / AI Images — And Why They've Now Stopped Cajsa's Choices: The SL-Based Imagery By "Awesome Fallen" Are Awesome Indeed Expert Explains How Using VR Can Help You to Have Lucid Dreams IRL Second Life's New AI Character Creator Creates Sharply Divided Community Reaction…
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Meta's Horizon Worlds $50M Creator Fund Yet Another Deep Misunderstanding of How Metaverse Platforms Work New VRChat-Based Volleyball Game Is So Playable, It Has a Player League & Live Sportscasts. So I Interviewed the Creator! What Will Virtual World Economies Do With Image-to-3D Mesh Conversion AI Programs Coming Soon? Grand Theft Auto VI Becoming Grand…
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Meta's CTO Memo Was an Early Signal of Company Shifting Away from VR/Quest Toward AR & AI (Comment of the Week) Challenge: What IS the Geographically Largest, Contiguous, Multi-User, Fully Explorable, Online Virtual World? While Horizon Worlds Layoffs Loom at Meta, Metaverse Platforms Rec Room & VRChat Are Hiring Many Roles Kickstart This: Help Expand…
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Adding A.I. Powered NPCs to Second Life: Philip Rosedale & Brad Oberwager on the Promise & Perils … And the [NPC says], “Do you want to go surfing?” And Brad was like, “Yeah.” And [the NPC] clicked on a surfboard giver and rezzed the surfboard for Brad. And Brad said to the team that was…
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Should I Stay or Should I Go: The Insidious Problem of Purpose in Second Life — And a Way to Help Solve It. (Guest Post) As Linden Lab Launches Its 1st Major Ad Campaign for Second Life in Years, Read My Interview With Philip Rosedale & Brad Oberwager on Marketing & Designing a Whole New…
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